Bagheera

In 1999 Heather and I started our musical collaboration which would eventually be known as BAGHEERA. We lived in an apartment that we suspected was haunted, in a sleepy tree-filled neighborhood in Saint Louis. At the time we were both playing music in other bands, Heather was playing guitar and singing for Climber and I was almost always on tour as the drummer for MU330. When I was home, we would stay up late into the night playing songs for each other, and for whatever ghosts happened to be hanging out there in trans-dimensional limbo. With softly strummed acoustic guitars and our intertwined voices we quickly built a collection of compositions that reflected our abstracted curiosity in the surreal, science, love, nature and space! I eventually bought a four-track tape machine and we started to experiment with the art of recording music.... ..As time moved forward, as it does in this universe anyway, we kept tinkering with our recordings and expanding our sound to include brashy drums, fuzz tones, thrift store keyboard noise and lots of stereo effects, while maintaining our core sound of boy / girl harmonies and Heather's odd chord progressions. We released our first album "Twelves" on Asian Man Records in 2004 and played shows across the Midwest, California, and the UK. Work on the next album was soon started. Experiments were performed. Data was analyzed. We entered an amazing period of science and multiplication. More sound was recorded, more compositions written and the untitled "space album" was really starting to take shape. In 2013 we asked our former bandmate Julie Gibbs to join us on bass guitar. 2017 the album "Shooting Rockets Towards the Sun" was released. ..were we writing songs to drive off or bring back the ghosts.. .. ..?