I grew up five miles into the woods outside the island town of Anacortes, Washington during the 80’s and 90’s in a
post-hippie echo that normalized saying “hello” out loud to the nearby mountains, waters and animals. As a
teenager, entering the world of music and creation through the door that punk tore open, I finally found my
people in Olympia. I lived there for 5 years and released records as the Microphones with the K label. Now I
make Mount Eerie records, since 2003, and release them myself on a fake record label, stubbornly still DIY to the
bone. I have a devotion to this life of creativity and subversion that has never wavered. These songs and works dig
down into the bedrock of this place and try to bring forth a fresh exhale, a big picture glimpse, small beneath the
sky, clear water trickling.
Ragana
Ragana is a duo whose members alternate duties on drums, guitar, and vocals to produce some of the most unique and affecting dark music in metal today. The two-piece came together in 2011 in the DIY punk scene of Olympia, WA.
Held together by an intense focus on raw emotion and haunting atmospherics, Ragana shifts seamlessly from tender, mesmerizing vocal harmonies to piercing, heart-ripping screams and back again, yielding a highly idiosyncratic take on black metal that is heavy, beautiful and punishing all at once.
