Jasper Leach

Jasper Patrick Leach (usually credited as Jasper Leach) is a musician, recording engineer, and music journalist from Los Angeles, California, currently based in New York City. He also performs under the name Burner Herzog. Quotes [T]he feelings we have are not new, or even our own, and yet, at the same time, they are our individual feelings. This is a koan that art can solve, and this is something I'm interested in solving all the time in my work. Interview, The Family Reviews, 2020 Art can be a vision of a new world, but the last 20 years have heavily favored re-evaluating the dazzling library of the past that opened up to us with the Internet and endless curated reissues. I think part of this is spurred on by the terrible political situation we've been in - people are scared of the future, and the past can be comforting. This problem is compounded by the fact that in the mid-1980s, technology surpassed what the artist was capable of doing with it, and it keeps lapping us; I fear many of us are not even attempting to catch up. Interview, The Family Reviews, 2020 The Myonics’ album was a long lesson about what not to do. We had no money, so we tracked it at Ex’pression [College] because it was free. It took us about two years to finish and then nine months to mix...If you go into the studio for three days, like we did, where there’s a gun to your head and it’s your money, you tend to think on your feet and make better decisions, rather than going to somebody’s house to mix and wondering why it doesn’t sound good for nine months. East Bay Express, 2013 To me, playing ‘psychedelic rock’ means that you can just dream up any crazy idea from any area of the musical spectrum you see fit and bastardize it into rock music – a fairly simple, restrictive medium. Interview, Dirty Hippie Radio, 2012 External links https://www.thefamilyreviews.com/features/burner-herzog Burner Herzog The Family Reviews 2020 2026-05-16 Family Reviews 2020 2013 Doing It Their Way: How Brasil produced one of the best local rock records of the year. https://eastbayexpress.com/doing-it-their-way-1/ East Bay Express April 8, 2026 East Bay Express 2013 The Myonics interview, on what the hell they are. http://dirtyhippieradio.com/2012/06/12/the-myonics-interview-on-what-the-hell-they-are/ https://web.archive.org/web/20131001185855/http://dirtyhippieradio.com/2012/06/12/the-myonics-interview-on-what-the-hell-they-are/ Dirty Hippie Radio June 12, 2012 October 1, 2013 May 16, 2026 Dirty Hippie 2012 Category:Singer-songwriters from the United States Category:Journalists from Los Angeles Category:Living people Category:Rock singers Category:American music Category:Jewish songwriters Category:Psychedelic music Category:Singer-songwriters from Los Angeles