Music For Moving Pictures

Ego Plum is an American musician, award-winning composer, and producer from Los Angeles, CA and the grandson of Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo. His inventive & eccentric musical style stems from a variety of unconventional influences: The quirky jazz of Raymond Scott, the spastic stop-and-go arrangements of Carl Stalling, the frenetic energy of Oingo Boingo, Devo, The Residents, and the Dead Kennedy's, with the haunting beauty of Franz Waxman and Bernard Herrmann.

Ego Plum has recorded, performed, and collaborated with artists such as David J (Bauhaus/Love & Rockets), Frank Black (Pixies), Steve Bartek & Johnny Vatos (Oingo Boingo), Gidget Gein (Marilyn Manson), and Genesis P. Orridge (Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV). Ego Plum serves as the musical director of the Ebola Music Orchestra, and had toured the United States playing guitar with the Grammy-nominated, comedy-rock group Green Jëlly. He got the attention of Nickelodeon in 2008 and he was hired to compose music for Amy Winfrey's hit series, Making Fiends, which aired around the world. Ego's musical subversions can be heard on everything from KROQ radio bumpers to television commercials to fashion shows. In 2011, he was presented with an Ovation Honor by the Los Angeles Stage Alliance for his Russian-inspired, mechanical musical score & original songs for the Gogol Project. Most recently, Ego Plum completed his first orchestral score for Paul Bunnell's black & white, 35mm indie feature, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, starring Kevin McCarthy, Creed Bratton, and Academy-Award Winner Paul Williams.

His next scoring project will be for Richard Elfman's long-awaited sequel to his cult classic, Forbidden Zone. "Forbidden Zone 2: The Forbidden Galaxy" will find Ego Plum co-composing the original music and songs alongside the illustrious Danny Elfman.

Ego Plum uses MUSICVOX guitars.