Samuel Claiborne cut his teeth in two radically different genres at the same time in the 1970s and 80's: electro-acoustic shamanic music, both on his own and as one half of the duo Loons in the Monastery, and No-Wave, punk, funk, reggae, and rock, as a member of several New York City bands, most notably the little-known but well-loved trio, Things Fall Apart. The death of Things Fall Apart's leader, Samuel's stepbrother Jan Stacy, coupled with a nearly-fatal accident that left Claiborne a quadriplegic for a time, forced him to abandon music for 10 years while he re-learned how to play guitar and keyboards. Loons in the Monastery re-formed and released several CDs in the early 2000s, including Stranger Than Truth. Once more going solo, Claiborne released The Annunciation, the critically-acclaimed quiet, NYFA award winning meditative acoustic piano collection, in 2009. And in 2015, he released the fire-and-brimstone, political and personal rock/experimental CD, Love, Lust, and Genocide. He's now fronting The Samuel Claiborne Band, a stripped-down power trio, and performing work from LL&G, as well as a slew of new, and widely genre-spanning songs.