Electronic Press Kit
Paper Dragon is a Mt Eden Unpop™ band from Auckland, New Zealand composed of and by Kate Riegle van West, Alex Raichev, and Kenji Yamasaki. They write all sorts of songs, often set poems to music, and banter a good bit. William Blake once praised them from the grave.
You can email them at hello@paperdragon.nz.
Promotional Photos
Available here.Hit Songs
We've recorded and produced all of our songs thus far in 80%-awesome, homemade fashion. Here's a taster from our full catalogue, part of which you can find on YouTube and other popular music streaming sites.
- Miniver Cheevy 𝄌 lyrics
- The Tyger 𝄌 lyrics
- Down by the Salley Gardens 𝄌 lyrics
- Soft Enchantress 𝄌 lyrics
- Good Advice That Just Hasn't Worked Out Yet 𝄌 lyrics
Live from The Smokes
Highlights and Achievements
- Almost touring four Auckland libraries for New Zealand Music Month, May 2024.
- Raising over 10,000 brownie points to support New Zealand biodiversity at our Rewild fundraiser concert, April 2023.
- Producing "Paper Dragon the Musical" in the Dragon's Den and selling out both performances, June 2021.
- Playing Sofar Sounds, October 2019.
Reviews
- "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