Papercranes, brainchild of LA and partly also NYC based composer/singer Rain Phoenix, play dark and somewhat disturbed "mid-fi" ballads that convey a sense of beautiful fragility, like those crooked Amsterdam buildings on a rainy day. The band has been around since the early 2000s, and just released their 3rd record, "let’s Make Babies in the Woods" which was produced with a "no rest or retakes allowed" rule, as an exercise in ‘stream of consciousness’ writing. Previous to papercranes, Rain Phoenix worked with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, REM, Angela McCluskey, The Causey Way and is a performer with the notorious NYC political cabaret collective The Citizen’s Band.