10/11/2025
Ragana and Drowse’s collaborative album Ash Souvenir is out this Friday. Listen to the song “After Image,” available now only on The Flenser’s YouTube channel and streamable everywhere this Friday.
Ragana and Drowse will perform Ash Souvenir live in January:
Jan 9 - Olympia - the Crypt
Jan 10 - Seattle - Substation -
Jan 11 - Portland - Polaris Hall
Tickets on sale now!
“After Image is a song about how self-perception is often linked to place: I tend to want to designate eras of my life around places that I have lived and think of aspects of myself as coming from or belonging to those places. It is also about the desire to forget memories associated with these places. The reality is that, although we may be able to physically move from a place and ‘move on’ from a person or event, those various aspects of ourselves, and our memories of the events that created them, all make up a greater whole. There is no moving away from the self. We may forget a specific event, but it has still permanently adjusted the shape of our life. In gestalt psychology the ‘parts,’ are defined by the whole, not the other way around: the dark plume of an eruption is made of thousands of fragments of ash, yet we view it as a single giant clouded form.” - Kyle Bates (Drowse)
