Born in Burbank, California, Garrett remembers the same playgrounds of malls and the desperate escapes from normality that Tim Burton recalls of his suburban upbringing. And though he grew up playing in rock groups, he constantly wrote in a similar style to those found in his father's records - the sixties/seventies singer-songwriters.
What holds his music apart from other acoustic-based musicians of this times is his blend of the darkness and the light. He's not interested in rehashing the psychadelic flower power that stems from his current San Francisco home. He's more interested with the journey of the mythological story, the song that first entered the consciousness and has been passed down from the early languages and met its peak in the Greek verses.
Garrett was most certainly meant to be a writer of songs. His original instincts were to create, and at thirteen, his first guitar gave him his first melodies. Now, over a decade later, he's written music in the hills of Echo Park, the flatlands of Davis, the jungle-beaches of Puerto Rico, and the lands that birthed those great mythological stories - Italy, and Greece.
Over the last year Garrett has embarked on several tours, including one with seminal songwriter Diane Cluck. He's played many of S.F.'s great venues including The Great American Music hall, and collaborated with the some of the bay area's most respected musicians. Independent radio stations on the west coast (KEXP, KUSF, KDVS) and in Europe have kept his album on heavy rotation.
"Like A Moth" was recorded in five sepreate locations from studios to hall closets in San Francsico and Davis, California. Matt Bauer, Jolie Holland, Safa Shokrai (The Drift), Jake Mann (Zim-Zims), Payam Bavafa (Sholi) all leant their talents to the making of the album.
His next album, PIRU, was recorded in the Sierra Foothills and features strings, analog intruments, and trash-can percussion. The album is currently being mixed.
