Jan Esbra is a Colombian guitarist, composer, and improviser known for “[capturing] emotional warmth within layered textures” (ADSR Collective) while “blurring the lines between a wide range of musical influences” (All About Jazz).

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Esbra’s musical world is centered around a playful orientation to improvisational practices; which he combines with elements from ambient, post-rock, shoegaze, and math-rock to create evocative and emotional pieces of music.

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Currently based in Brooklyn, Esbra performs frequently with his band Nested Houses, as well as a variety of co-led bands, solo electronic music, and has performed with a variety of artists including Becca Stevens, Don Pardo, Noah Rott, André Sacalxot, Chloe Brisson, Rapid Eye, Daniel Rossi's MESS, Tired Horses, and Mike Talento.

 

He has released three electronic albums, Temporary Objects (self released 2021), Confluence w/ Greg Dallas (Slow Music Movement 2022), and Suspended in a Breath (Phantom Limb 2024). Esbra's upcoming EP, Keep Moving Forward, will be out on February 6, 2026 via Red Hill Records. 

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Esbra is a teaching artist at Musicambia and Carnegie Hall's Musical Connections, two programs which bring music education into prisons.