Alyssa is a queer violinist and poet, raised in Utah Valley. She has released albums with local bands Choir Boy and Quiet House, and her experimental prose poetry has been featured in Peculiar: A Queer Literary Journal. Alyssa teaches violin, records jingles for TV shows and commercials, and studies Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Utah.
Company Vacation is songwriter Kyle Benson in Oakland, California. Kyle is an illustrator and lettering artist whose songs focus on daily life, work and home relationships, and simple pleasures.
Emily Brown is a singer-songwriter and poet based in Oakland, California. Drawing comparisons to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, her clear voice and carefully crafted lyrics draw from personal experience and literary tradition.
Lynn Wynn is the Salt Lake-based person Jake Lyman (who has been nice to his friends since 2002). He has toured with songwriter Emily Brown and is a member of jangle pop band Odie.
Odie is a small, slobbery band made up of parts Emily Brown, Jake Lyman, Andrew Wiggins and Kyle Benson. Born in San Jose, CA in 2016, where they played their first and only show in a dive bar called Caravan Lounge. They write songs in one room apartments and bedrooms scattered around California.
Sen Wisher is a pseudonym for Ben Swisher’s sentimental shapeshifter art pop—involving Stuart Wheeler, Bly Wallentine and Sophie Blair. In mysterious Eugene, Ben seeks answers from volcanoes, vacuums and now birds, through increasingly unruly soundscapes. Yawning organs, bowed banjos and pitch-processed vocals reach outward. Only more questions return.