Sage is a collaborative project inspired by the beauty of the Oregon Cascades and sustained by the desire to find a creatively unbound space that is simply about the joy of making music. We are oriented by electronic instruments and dance sounds, but devoted to playful experimentation and genre-bending.

Sage 1 (preview clips)

Exactly two years ago, we packed up our studio gear and took a trip to our creative sanctuary in the Oregon Cascades, where we settled down for a week of writing music in the forested, wintry foothills. We had recently encountered Henri Rousseau's painting The Dream at the MoMA, and the feeling of being enthralled by the piece followed us home.

We acquired a wooden jigsaw puzzle representing the painting and moved between the meticulous piece-by-piece study of the lush world of The Dream and the piece-by-piece building of these songs. With snow falling and the new year approaching, our minds wandered to an imaginary jungle island where reality and dreams intertwine in the humid undergrowth.

2: The Dream

Sage 2: The Dream

From the forest floor to the dance floor and back again

cover art by Isabel von der Ahe

releases 5/17/23

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Sage 3 - Orchid Dance

We welcome the summer season with our first volume of Sage edits. We love reinterpreting our favorite artists, and our hard drive is full of ideas for edits and remixes. We hope that listeners share the nostalgia and emotion that these songs evoke for us, while also finding something new to love in our interpretations. 

This EP is a reflection of both of us as individual artists and our combined vision, featuring one track by each of us and one we made together. The tracks we chose to edit hold a special place in our hearts, full of memories of the delight of musical discovery. The Cocteau Twins edit is particularly special and long-held. It was written collaboratively many years ago in the sage field that is our namesake. It was one of the first completed Sage tracks that we hoped to release. It has stayed with us through many eras of our lives together as artists and partners. The artwork designed by Isabel Von Der Ahe is based on the color palette from the cover of Heaven or Las Vegas, an album we and so many of our friends love. We are so thrilled to finally share it and the full EP with you and hope you enjoy it!

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