Album Notes

Acclaimed by The New Yorker as "a star of Seattle's new music scene," Garrett Fisher's music combines pop with such influences as Indian ragas, techo beats, and fretless bass to create a mesmerizing and intense sound. Phonograph features Fisher's vocals along with Indian harmonium as well as sampled gongs. In creating Phonograph, Fisher was inspired by the words of the ancient Greek poet Sappho, whose sensual, timeless verse was popular thousands of years ago and remains so today.

Garrett Fisher is also the director of the Fisher Ensemble, bringing together a collective of diverse artists and performers that challenges the boundaries of music, movement, and theater. Garrett Fisher's operas combines pop, classical, and such influences as Indian and Japanese musical traditions and is written for such instruments as harmonium, koto, gongs, vocalists, as well as recorded rhythms and electric guitar. His “operas” are haunting, intuitive, driving, and mathematical, sometimes narrative and at other points abstract; they blend raga-like improvisation with masks, movement, acting, and words.