Welcome

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About

Paper Dragon —that's us— is a Mt Eden Unpop™ band from Auckland, New Zealand formed in 2018 by Alex Raichev and Kate Riegle van West and currently composed of Alex Raichev, Kenji Yamasaki, and associates. We write all sorts of songs, often set poems to music, and banter a good bit.

Contact

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Testimonials

"Sweet sprites, the burden bear. Hark, hark! Bow-wow."
~William Shakespeare

"For they dance and drink and sing, till some blind hand shall brush their wing."
~William Blake

"Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun. Now I may wither into the truth."
~William Butler Yeats, on the coming of wisdom upon listening to Paper Dragon

FAQ

Questioner (Q): You describe your music as Mt Eden unpop.

Alex (A): Unpop™

Q: Yes, what do you mean by that?

A: I don't know exactly, especially since we have at least eleven fans now. Eclectic? Our songs mix pop, rock, folk, Afrobeat, and Latin in characteristic Mt Eden style.

Q: You set a lot of poems to music. Why is that?

Kenji (K): There's a very good thingy going on here, but i don't remember what it is.

Kate (T): Alex's lyrical genius is dumb, so he steals words from dead poets.

A: O 'tis true, 'tis true, and Kate writes all her own lyrics. That's why she's so slow finishing songs :-)

Q: Do you play covers?

T: No, we play our own tunes.

Q: Will you play Yesterday by the Beatles?

A: Yes.

Q: Really?

T: No.

Q: If you could be a bean, what kind of bean would you be?

A: Scarlet Runner!

K: There's a very good thingy going on here, but i don't remember what it is.

T: Jelly bean. Marshmallow flavored.