plaine

I'm Chris Brown. I write, record, produce, and mix music as plaine, out of my home studio in Charleston, South Carolina.

I grew up in York County, Pennsylvania, where I started playing piano and trumpet as a kid. I sang in church choir and school chorus, too. All of that shaped how I hear music and what I try to do with it.

After college, I moved to New Orleans and spent over a decade there, surrounded by music, photography, and design. Along the way, I started plaine studios, a boutique design agency. When I moved to Charleston in 2013, life got busy with family and career, and I stepped away from recording for a while. In 2020, I finally got back to it. I'm largely self-taught when it comes to recording, producing, and mixing, so every release is a step forward. Still learning, still growing, still figuring it out.

Now I'm writing songs about the stuff we all go through but don't always say out loud. The sound pulls from electronic, indie rock, chamber pop, and singer-songwriter territory, with some classical and orchestral textures mixed in. It's all part of a project called Sounds Good to Me.

Thanks for listening.