NewOrigins

Portland, OR, USA

Where once we played bars in downtown Salt Lake City late at night, now we record socially distant music from around the Pacific Northwest. New Origins is a remote band consisting of Gabriel Bugarin, Ross Richardson, and Alan Deeth. We decided to fill our time during the COVID-19 pandemic by remotely reconnecting, learning to record and master, and expanding our musical horizons with new and updated compositions. Our work mixes narrative, visual, and musical elements to tell a broad overarching story. To this end, each album tells a part of a larger narrative. For inspiration, we pull from myriad media across the sci-fi, fantasy, cyberpunk, and solarpunk genres, among others. In particular, Archive of the Unbo