Seattle based alternative group centered around the talents of Izzy Majcher on pitched instruments and Jack Noe on drums.

www.graceevangelinemason.com

Named as the 'Face to Watch' for classical music in The Times 2020 Calendar of the Arts, Grace-Evangeline Mason is a composer based in the UK. She has been described as ‘a supreme painter in sound’ [Seen and Heard International] and has a ‘keen ear for musical texture - from dreamy hazes of electronic sound to sumptuous choral writing’ [BBC]. Mason creates ethereal sound-worlds often inspired by art, poetry and literature to take a listener on a narrative journey. 

She has worked with ensembles such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the Aurora Orchestra, in venues across the UK and internationally,  including European countries, USA, Canada, Japan and South Africa. Her music has been performed at festivals such as the Cheltenham Music Festival, Southbank SoundState Festival, LFCCM, and the 2017 BBC Proms, amongst others. Her orchestral work ‘The Imagined Forest’, ‘drawn with pen-and-ink precision and filled with vivid orchestral colour’ [The Times], was co-commissioned to mark the 150th anniversary of the Royal Albert Hall premiered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra at the 2021 BBC Proms. 

Mason is the recipient of awards including BBC Young Composer of the Year (2013), the RLPO’s Christopher Brooks Prize (2017), and the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize (2018). She studied at the RNCM and the University of Oxford and is currently pursuing her doctorate at the Royal Academy of Music, London. 

Grace-Evangeline Mason's music is published by Boosey & Hawkes.


"Marzipan" is the first single off of Fauna Shade's debut full length Baton Rouge, written about a brief romantic encounter that singer Scotty Smith didn't want to end so soon. Like the song, the encounter started so sweet and easy but somehow perished like that corner plant that just didn't get water and never bloomed.

Fauna Shade is the music and sounds developed by frontman and Everett, Washington native Scotty Smith. Smith, now 21, combines psychedelia and pop sensibility from years spent experimenting, writing and recording tracks in his parents garage, located between the Puget Sound and Cascade Mountains. Joined live by drummer Richie Owen and bassist Derek Johnston, the band draws inspiration from early MGMT, Coco Rosie and T. Rex, while somehow forming a sound uncorrupted and free of pretense. 

This single is the first release from their debut full length Baton Rouge, recorded and co-produced by Jeff Southard at SWOON Studios (Night Beats, Tangerine) in Tacoma, Washington. Baton Rouge is out on April 28, 2015.


Four humans, one larynx, multiple strings, several blunt objects, and a smattering of electronic devices.

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