{"id":7542,"date":"2025-12-09T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?p=7542"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:35:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:35:32","slug":"debut-release-from-ragger-out-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?p=7542","title":{"rendered":"Debut release from Ragger &#8211; out February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>We&#8217;re so very proud to share the debut release from California-based duo Ragger &#8211; coming out February 10th, 2026 on CD, tape, and digitally:<\/h5>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 400px; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3785734126\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/tracklist=false\/tracks=2100879729\/esig=dafed7e57dbe7dcaa8c69df44e79751d\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ragger.bandcamp.com\/album\/euphonic-sounds\">Euphonic Sounds by Ragger<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h5><strong>Marc Riordan<\/strong> and <strong>Jon Leland<\/strong> make music together under the name <strong>Ragger<\/strong>. Each are multi-instrumentalists and avid collaborators in their wide artistic practices: Riordan performed and collaborated with the likes of <strong>The Cairo Gang<\/strong>, <strong>The Red Krayola<\/strong>, <strong>Xiu Xiu<\/strong>, <strong>Owls<\/strong>, and <strong>Joshua Abrams<\/strong> before moving from his longtime home of Chicago to LA, while Leland performed with <strong>Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang<\/strong>, <strong>Glasser<\/strong>, <strong>Amen Dunes<\/strong>, <strong>Steve Gunn<\/strong>, and <strong>Skeletons<\/strong> before moving from New York to LA and then to the Bay Area to begin a career in video game development. The two began collaborating in 2017 after being invited by <strong>Cameron Stallones<\/strong> to form the current trio lineup of his long-running luminary experimental project <strong>Sun Araw<\/strong>, with Riordan handling bass and lead synth parts and Leland on electronic drum kit. They formed <strong>Ragger<\/strong> shortly after meeting, performing as a duo for a bi-weekly residency in the front caf\u00e9 of the noted experimental venue <strong>Zebulon<\/strong> in LA, with a very specific scope of material in mind: the ragtime compositions of <strong>Scott Joplin<\/strong> and his contemporaries, presented in synthetic tones for synthesizers and electronic V drums. Hausu Mountain is proud to introduce <strong>Ragger<\/strong> to the world with their first album of recordings in this style, <em><strong>Euphonic Sounds<\/strong><\/em>.<\/h5>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h5>While <strong>Hausu Mountain<\/strong> has always highlighted an interest in \u201ccarnivalesque\u201d music, from the gonzo cyborg experiments of <strong>Wobbly<\/strong> to the sideshow psychedelia of <strong>Mondo Lava<\/strong> to the tongue-in-cheek freneticism of <strong>Jetski<\/strong>\u2019s sample collages, <strong>Ragger<\/strong>\u2019s <em><strong>Euphonic Sounds<\/strong><\/em> sets the carnival trapeze higher than anything else in the label\u2019s catalog, while also honoring HausMo\u2019s abiding love for 16-bit video game sounds and imagery. For label heads Doug Kaplan and Max Allison, <strong>Ragger<\/strong>\u2019s own elevator pitch for their music as \u201c<strong>Scott Joplin<\/strong> in <em><strong>Super Mario World<\/strong><\/em>\u201d seemed too good to be true on paper \u2013 somehow too dialed into the label\u2019s aesthetics to ever land successfully in practice. But guess what? Riordan and Leland nailed it. <em><strong>Euphonic Sounds<\/strong><\/em> overflows with whimsy and joy as much as a brand of casual virtuosity in service of the intricacies of music composed over a century ago. While ragtime might nominally be catalogued closer to \u201cclassical music\u201d by today\u2019s listeners, its deep roots weave into the origins of jazz, blues, pop, and dance music. We hear <strong>Ragger<\/strong> tease these threads out while transplanting the style into modern tones and ideas from the perspective of the avant-underground, attesting to the passion that the duo has for this music and the lengths they were willing to stretch themselves both mentally and physically to perform it at this level.<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ragger - Peacherine Rag\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1wzvjZ4wXRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re so very proud to share the debut release from California-based duo Ragger &#8211; coming out February 10th, 2026 on CD, tape, and digitally: Euphonic Sounds by Ragger Marc Riordan and Jon Leland make music together under the name Ragger. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/?p=7542\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7544,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions\/7544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hausumountain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}