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Denver, Colorado

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, grew up in Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska

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, and started Rivulets in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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in the year 2000. He has also lived in Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

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, Portland, Oregon

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, Dallas, Texas

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, Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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, Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington, Indiana

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and Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth, Minnesota

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. He currently lives in Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

.

Rivulets has released albums on Chair Kickers' Union, Important Records and O Rosa Records; and EPs on Silber, Acuarela, BlueSanct and Tract Records, as well as numerous compilation tracks and singles.

Additional musicians who have performed live or on record as part of Rivulets include: Jessica Bailiff

Jessica Bailiff

Jessica Bailiff is an American singer-songwriter from Toledo, Ohio. Her music is largely classified as slowcore, although it contains elements of post-rock and shoegaze. Bailiff was discovered by Low's Alan Sparhawk, who recommended her earlier demos to Kranky Records, the label on which Bailiff...

, LD Beghtol

LD Beghtol

LD Beghtol is an American musician, art director and writer. Beghtol participated in The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs recordings and live shows. Beghtol is a founding member of the band Flare—aka Flare Acoustic Arts League—and the death-pop outfit LD & the New Criticism, and was also in the...

(the Magnetic Fields

The Magnetic Fields

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), Haley Bonar

Haley Bonar

Haley Bonar is an American alternative country singer-songwriter who hails from South Dakota. She has lived in Duluth and St. Paul, Minnesota. In July 2009, she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she spent a year writing songs for her newest album Golder, which is to be released April 19, 2011...

, Chris Brokaw

Chris Brokaw

Chris Brokaw is an American musician, mostly known for his work with the bands Come and Codeine.While studying at Oberlin College, Brokaw met many people who became figures on the American indie rock scene of the 1990s, among them Stephen Immerwahr, who formed Codeine with Brokaw, as well as...

(Codeine

Codeine (band)

Codeine was an American indie rock/slowcore band formed in 1989. They released two full-length albums — Frigid Stars in 1990 and The White Birch in 1994.-History:...

), Jon DeRosa

Jon DeRosa

Jon DeRosa is a guitarist, composer, singer-songwriter, and vocalist. He has been involved with several critically acclaimed acts, including Dead Leaves Rising , Pale Horse and Rider , as well as the musical collective known as Aarktica.- Background :Raised in the small shore town of Manasquan,...

(Aarktica

Aarktica

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), William Faith

William Faith

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(Faith & the Muse), Christian Frederickson (Rachel's

Rachel's

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), Fred Lonberg-Holm

Fred Lonberg-Holm

Fred Lonberg-Holm is an American cellist based in Chicago. He relocated from New York City to Chicago in 1995.Lonberg-Holm is most identified with playing free improvisation and free jazz. He is also a composer of concert works...

, Jarboe

Jarboe

Jarboe is an American singer, songwriter, and keyboardist.Jarboe is a solo artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the New York City based group Swans. With founder Michael Gira, the duo was the core of Swans until the group broke up in 1998...

(Swans

Swans (band)

Swans are an influential American post-punk band initially active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Formed by Gira in...

), Brian John Mitchell (Remora), Aaron Molina (If Thousands

If Thousands

If Thousands is an American drone band from Duluth, Minnesota. Since releasing their debut album "Candice Recorder" in 2001, the band has toured the U.S. with Low. If Thousands' music has been featured on NPR. Christian McShane also performed with Charlie Parr in the band Devil's Flying Machine...

), Mimi Parker (Low

Low (band)

Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993. As of 2010, the group is composed of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker , both founding members, and Steve Garrington ....

), Alan Sparhawk

Alan Sparhawk

Alan Sparhawk is the guitarist and vocalist for American band Low.-Biography:George Alan Sparhawk was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Utah. He met Mimi Parker when he was 9, after his family moved to Minnesota. Sparhawk began writing his own compositions around the age of 13...

(Low

Low (band)

Low is an American indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993. As of 2010, the group is composed of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker , both founding members, and Steve Garrington ....

), Aaron Spectre, Nathan Vollmar, Francesco Candura (Jennifer Gentle

Jennifer Gentle

-History:Jennifer Gentle was formed by Marco Fasolo and Alessio Gastaldello in early 2000, after the breakup of Marco’s previous band, Carcers. Later, these two young men teamed up with guitarist Isacco Maretto and bassist Nick Crivellari, which would complete the early stage of this Northern...

), and Bob Weston

Bob Weston

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(Shellac

Shellac (band)

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).

Nathan Amundson is also a member of Vlor and frequent collaborator with artists such as Annelies Monseré, Clara Hill

Clara Hill

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, Jessica Bailiff

Jessica Bailiff

, If Thousands

If Thousands

and Remora.

Discography

For a complete discography, visit rivulets.net.

d e m o s (Self Released, 2000)
rivulets (Chair Kickers' Union, 2002)
thank you reykjavik (Blue Sanct Records, 2002)
The Alcohol EPs (Silber, 2002)
DEBRIDEMENT (Chair Kickers' Union, 2003)
you've got your own (Acuarela, 2004)
you are my home (Important Records, O Rosa Records 2006)
d e m o s (10th Anniversary Edition) (Silber, 2010)
Stray Songs, 2000-2010 (digital-only through Amazon, iTunes, and CD Baby, 2010)
yearlings (Self Released, 2011)
We're Fucked (Important Records, 2011)

Interviews

External links

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