Iretsu Bio
Based in Portland, Oregon, Ryan Cross, Glen Scheidt, Joel Holly and Chris Pickolick are the four wildly talented individuals that collectively make up the magical Iretsu. The band began in a house in the Sellwood district of Portland, Oregon during the spring of 2002, where Ryan (Loch Lomond) and Kate O’Brien-Clarke (Loch Lomond, Eric Bachmann, Pseudo Six) started forming songs using guitar and cello/violin. Joel (Hurtbird, Y5K), a resident of the house, was intrigued and began collaborating on guitar and bass. Within a year, they found their drummer, Glen Scheidt (Basta). They recorded and self-produced their first self-titled EP on four track in the basement of the Sellwood House.
Fuelled with a set of new songs, Iretsu recorded their debut album The Moon And Stars Remain In The Morning Sky in 2004. That March they presented 25 performances of Mitlaufer, with Iretsu performing the soundtrack live, which they later recorded that April. Their Name Our Numbers, Numbers EP (Hidden Shoal, 2009) saw the departure of O’Brien-Clarke, but the sowing of the seeds of their forthcoming full-length album, Fang, on the Oregon Coast. During the mixing of Fang the band added a fourth member, Chris Pickolick, on bass and bongos.
