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About Me

"Mitre's Sympathy For Agamemnon' is a guitar album of poised beauty...a fine short collection" -- Ampersand Etcetera
"His droning approach is beautifully involving and helps your brain getting into the void" -- Touching Extremes
"dreamy... the commencing stew of sound is thick, syrupy, and tinged with a sympathetic emotional feeling... Mitre brings a definitely human feel to these ambient realms of emotionless and soul swallowing drones... weaves a spell that suspends the listener in an elevated emotional state" -- Heathen Harvest
"A cross between shoegazer rock and Popul Vuh" -- Vital Weekly
"Philosophically, Mitre's music paints a world where you alone exist, and everyone else is an invention. It's a refined minimalism that engages your mind, a drone you can walk inside, then lose yourself within." -- Splendid
My EP "Sympathy For Agamemnon" garnered praise as well as comparisons to Windy & Carl, Stars of the Lid, Popol Vuh, Brian Eno, the Sun City Girls, and Neil Young. It's available from Dreamland Recordings. Also, two of my MP3-only EP's are available for free from Archive.org
Dreamland also recently released two albums of new mitre material--"Fold Your Wings" and "In The Middle Of The Night In A Dark House Somewhere In The World."

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Member Since: 8/4/2005
Band Website: mitre.blogspot.com
Band Members: Scott Richardson (guitar, vocals, bass, various & sundry other noise-making devices)
occasionally assisted by Loki on backing vocals
Influences: Windy & Carl, Brian Eno, Eyvind Kang, Michael Galasso, Sun City Girls, Acid Mothers Temple, George Harrison, Bardo Pond, Stars of the Lid, Mission of Burma, Bevis Frond, Swervedriver, Cerberus Shoal, Robyn Hitchcock, Motorpsycho, Billy Bragg, SubArachnoid Space, Frank Zappa, John Frusciante, Neil Young, John Lurie, Spacemen 3, Elliott Smith, Ride, John Coltrane, 13th Floor Elevators, Popol Vuh, Bob Dylan, Chris Brokaw, De Kift, Hawkwind, Shellac, Tarentel, Dinosaur Jr, Yume Bitsu, Miles Davis, Erik Satie
Sounds Like: Celestial drone-folk? Ambient shoegaze-jazz?
Record Label: Dreamland (Australia)
Type of Label: Indie