PRESS:
"Brother Raven's music burbles and pulsates in a cosmic eternal now, unspooling fractals of clean-blooded analog-synth tones (or a convincing digital facsimile thereof) that ripple and disperse into that bright light filmmakers flash when characters cross from reality into dream/fantasy."
~Dave Segal, The Stranger
"Local duo Brother Raven (Jamie Potter and Jason E. Anderson) eschew their billmates' decibellicosity and strive for cosmic consciousness-raising, like many a highly evolved synth-sorcerer before them. Their cassettes Diving into the Pineapple Portal and A Sound Like Wailing Winds Is Heard (Gift Tapes) are primo chill-out soma, beatless balm that avoids crystal-clutching tritenessand achieves a Zenlike state of calm (sorry for the rhyme, but I swear on a stack of Alan Watts tomes that it's true). Creating music that tranquilly bubbles, sparkles, and drifts without inducing yawns or eye-rolling is terrifically difficult, but Brother Raven achieve this exalted condition. Their tracks belong both in the academy and in the temples of holistic health."
~Dave Segal, The Stranger
"...the duo had their analog gear out and brought back memories of the numerous releases of electronic music on Sky Records from back in the 1970's and 1980's. For those of you who didn't grow up with those around, I should explain that they put out LPs of gentle, melodic synthesizer music with experimental flourishes. The best known examples from their catalog would be Cluster and the first four albums by Asmus Tietchens. The emphasis here is drifting off into soundworlds, not the sequencer driven drivel of post-Krautrock Tangerine Dream. It is an area that seems to be getting explored more lately by the likes of James Ferraro from The Skaters and others. Brother Raven really nails the cosmic aspects of this stuff though."
~Eric Lanzillotta, Dissonant Plane Blog
"Brother Raven are fairly new on my horizon, a local duo (J.Anderson & J.Potter), they purvey a stunning wash of uber spaced out cosmic synth worship. They seemed to take a wholly improvisational journey, navigating dense bass swells interspersed with thoughtful quiet parts. It was as if Klaus Schulze took a less conventional route through the Moog cosmos."
~Kurt D of Sparkle Girl
"Brother Raven are a couple guys from Seattle that make music from synthesizers that will take you on a dreamy journey through outer sea and inner space."
Andrew Lench, Slow Music Meltdown Blog
"Seattle’s Brother Raven leads drifting undersea excursions through hypnotic blips and vast ambient washes."
~Impose Magazine
