Jan Esbra is a Brooklyn-based, Colombian guitarist, composer, and electronic musician whose work has been lauded as  "daring, unique, and compulsively listenable" (Pop Matters) and “unlike anything else I’ve heard in ages” (Star Track).

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Esbra’s musical world is centered around a playful orientation between multiple practices ranging from songwriting and composition to live electronics and production. He imbues his practices with elements drawn from improvisation, ambient music, and math-rock to create evocative and emotional pieces of music.

 

An active performer in Brooklyn, Esbra can be found playing with his band, Nested Houses, or with Noah Rott, Daniel Rossi's MESS, Rapid Eye, Chloe Louise Brisson, and the Mike Talento Quartet, among others.

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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. 

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He has a 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) a songwriter EP , Keep Moving Forward (Red Hill Records 2026), and is working on a debut album for his instrumental indie rock band Nested Houses. 

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