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Born in Madison WI, Leo Dreis (Marvelous) is the Founder/ Director of The Cherry Pit©, manic composer of songs, and a connector of creatives. Inspired by the piano stylings of New Orleans LA, the rhythms of Russian dances and the written word of fairytales, Marvelous creates innovative stories of song from a myriad of motivations.
Steeped in Soul & Blues, the improvisational spirit of Marvelous travels through his piano, voice and guitar, conveying heartfelt messages that transcend time.
SoulFlower is a blossoming musician in the Twin Cities. Channeling mysticism in her lyrics and gritty bass lines through her fingers. SoulFlower intuitively navigates the creative process. Inspired by the sounds of Hiatus Kaiyote and Willow Smith.
_thelovinglight is an artist, healer, mother, & songstress who casts spells with her songs. channeling insights from the stars & drawing from the depths of her lived experience- they create vulnerable chunes that shift energies & open portals to new possibilities. she approaches creation as ceremony & shares with a raw & open heart. x
The songs of Bear In The Forest (BITF) howl with spiritualism. It is built around folk music in the oldest, barest sense: joy and pain and a guitar coming together to produce sounds that resonate with ancestral memory.
The BITF project is a slow burn. Bear, a.k.a. Alberto Kanost, has been writing and performing songs under this moniker for about a decade, beginning when he was 15. Now at 24, he has had multiple iterations of bands and worked with two different producers to release two projects and a handful of singles. His collaborators and producers come and go, but it seems to always come back to just Bear and his guitar. In live performances, magic happens, and it's a challenge to capture it in recording; the music comes from what some would describe as a spiritual channelling that can be hard to recreate in studio settings.
After Bear's recent graduation from UW-Madison in 2020, BITF released a second project, showing growth in songwriting and an ever-shining vocal prowess. The local scene in Wisconsin is starting to hear this act.
BITF songwriting elaborates on thoughts in topics like mental health, nature, war, death, loneliness, love, and heart-break, but always holds onto a sense of joy. Bear draws a lot of inspiration from the Indie-folk bloom of the 2000s/2010s; with acts like Mumford and Sons, Laura Marling, Bon Iver, Ben Howard, and Tallest Man On Earth, being huge influences for his sound and songwriting.