Biography

Wickerbird is the atmospheric dream-folk project of Blake Cowan, started in the wild foothills of Mt. Rainier. It began as a means of relating the understanding he found wandering the woods, told in distilled daydreams and wrought within the distant strands of tranquil, wistful guitars and cavernous, haunting harmonies. His prior work includes "The Crow Mother" (2012), "The Westering" (2013) and "The Leaf Maker" (2015) -- music collections steeped in allegories of disillusionment and transition, casting personal insights under layers of natural metaphor and mythical imagery. Where this past work concerned itself with forest-bound introspection, examining the forces of change in their capacity for growth, Wickerbird's upcoming full-length record shifts its perspective outwards to the horizon, reckoning instead with the destructive aspects of change. While his vantage remains lodged in those same diminishing natural spaces, "The Sea Weaver" instead explores his relation to the rapidly unraveling human context that envelops him and in doing so, contends with a haunted acceptance of being bound to its fate. It is a collection of threadbare elegies for the end, as overheard through the walls of a crumbling house. With gauzy, liminal atmospheres, stark finger-picked melodies, reverberant choirs, and mythologized natural imagery, Wickerbird makes an accounting of what emotions remain--when the anger and fear of a stolen future have long burnt off.