The Ben and Bren Show

By: Benny Reiner Brennan Villines Dylan Rau
  • Summary

  • The Ben and Bren Show is brought to you by Grammy Award-winning musician Benny Reiner, Singer-Songwriter Brennan Villines, and co-host Dylan Rau from the indie rock band, Bear Hands. Equal parts educational, inspirational, and comedic, the trio host a variety of music’s finest figures to learn of their own personal stories and what it’s like to work on some of cultures biggest musical pillars. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thebenandbrenshow/support
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  • Jasha Klebe
    Oct 4 2024

    Jasha Klebe is a composer known for emotive melodies and conceptually unique scores. Because of this, he has become particularly sought after for some of the most prestigious natural history programs today. From co-scoring the BAFTA and Emmy nominated music of BBC’s Planet Earth II, (alongside Hans Zimmer & Jacob Shea), to additionally providing music to the follow up series, Blue Planet II, ITV’s groundbreaking 6-part series, A Year On Planet Earth - narrated by Stephen Fry, to Netflix’s bold nature documentary series, Animal, FOX’s Malika the Lion Queen narrated by Angela Bassett, Plimsoll’s vividly eye-opening Queer Planet, to most recently co-scoring Netflix’s highly acclaimed blue-chip series, Our Planet II narrated by David Attenborough. With each program, Jasha has been praised for bringing a fresh and daringly creative new perspective to the genre.


    Beyond natural history, Jasha composed the emotionally moving score to Netflix’s Oscar nominated documentary, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom as well the follow up film Freedom on Fire, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Jasha has also scored the Emmy nominated music of National Geographic’s Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes and Diana: In Her Own Words. His music can be heard in the Robert Zemeckis Netflix series, Medal of Honor, Garrett Bradley’s, Naomi Osaka and the 2019 Emmy-nominated film, The Black Godfather, directed by Reginald Hudlin and produced by Nicole Avant. Jasha also provided the inspired percussive score to Peacock’s reimagining of Queer As Folk, created by Stephen Dunn and exec produced by Russell T Davies.


    Outside of film and tv, Jasha has provided music to some of the most exciting podcasts, including Imperative Entertainment’s American Coyote, The Agent, Elizabeth the First, & recently Wavland’s The High Roller Heist. Additionally, Jasha’s 2021 single Hum was featured in the trailer for the BAFTA nominated film, All Of Us Strangers.


    Jasha began his musical career at the age of 5, singing at his Grandparents’ opera house, Cinnabar Theater, in Petaluma, CA. He studied classical piano and trombone for over 15 years before he moved to Los Angeles and started working at Remote Control Productions under Hans Zimmer. Over the 4 years with Hans, Jasha wrote on such films as The Dark Knight Rises, Rush, Man of Steel, and several other notable projects. Jasha was also the music arranger for the 84th Academy Awards, as well as keyboard/ synthesizer player within the event’s orchestra. In 2013, Jasha began to serve as one of the headlining composers at Bleeding Fingers Music. Within this role, Jasha contributed countless hours of music to some of the most acclaimed series on television, including shows on ABC, CBS, MTV, Netflix, Lifetime, A&E, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, National Geographic, BBC, and he performed live on The Late Show with Colbert alongside Shea and Zimmer.


    Jasha currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Brian Logan Dales
    Sep 20 2024

    Brian Logan Dales is a songwriter, actor and the lead singer for pop/rock band The Summer Set. Since 2007, he has released five albums— selling half a million singles and garnering over 500 million streams on Spotify. In 2013, The Summer Set received the iHeartradio Rising Star Award, and performed alongside Queen, Elton John, Justin Timberlake, and more at The iHeartradio Festival as well as in the coveted Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Since then they have sold out venues around the world, and headlined the Vans Warped Tour. Their songs have been heard in TV shows on Netflix, Amazon, The CW and MTV.

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • David Parks
    Sep 6 2024

    David Parks is a native Memphian and an accomplished bassist. After graduating from the University of Memphis, with a degree in jazz performance, Parks auditioned and won 3rd place in MTV’s hit show Making His Band. Parks would go on to tour with pop megastars such as Justin Beiber, Jason Derulo and famed reggae artist Skip Marley.

    An accomplished studio musician, Parks’ slick basslines can be heard be heard on Jason Derulo’s hit singles “Slidin”, “From the Island”, Andy Grammar’s “Joy”, and Ledisi’s Grammy Winning smash “Anything for You” to name a few.

    In 2021, Parks stepped from behind the bass to star and co-produce the acclaimed short film, Chocolate Galaxy, an afro-futuristic hip hop opera that earned top honors in the Indie Memphis Film Fest, and garnered an honorable mention as one of The Memphis Flyer’s top films of the year.

    Currently, Parks is taking his knowledge and experience of over 15 years in the music industry to produce the book and web series “The Tour Life: An artist guide to life on the road”.

    “My goal is to help younger musicians take the necessary steps to achieve their dreams.” The Tour Life will serve as a step by step curriculum to help students go from classrooms to arenas.

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    1 hr and 21 mins

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