PRESS

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

“Like Orpheus incarnate, Dalrymple conjures aural phantasmagoria with lyric and lyre. Follow the melodies of 'Make Believe' from golden Elysian fields to the dark depths of the river Styx.”

Benjamin A. Vierling

Painter/Fine Artist

Album Reviews

JOHN SCHARPEN

"...My take on this album is that is centers around the importance of stories and storytelling. We are, after all, living collections of the stories we’ve been told and the stories we tell ourselves..."

DIVIDE & CONQUER

"The haunting and oddly terrifying 'The Blessing of Pan' sounds like children chanting around some kind of ominous circle."

HEATHEN HARVEST

"I can imagine someone leafing through crates of vinyl ......and mistaking it for an oddity from the late ’60s. 'Is this the Incredible String Band channeling Rick Wakeman?‘, they might ask...."

THE UNION

"Take an excursion into a realm where time is but a memory, where high magic runs afoot, where the senses become tangled in a web of misty dreams...."

MARKUS WOLFF

This new work has it all-catchy psych-pop songs, quasi-eastern folk freak-outs, epic bardic harp journeys, and everything in between...

KRUMBLED KOOKIE

"The rhythms and melodies on this record are so captivating that I can't stop listening."

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AFRICAN PAPER

"...the beautiful appearance is far more attractive than the disdainful reality, which, according to Oscar Wilde, is only an epigonal imitation of art. Use your imagination and reality will emerge...."

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"Wonderfully unusual, musically supreme, refreshingly original. Make Believe celebrates imaginative play and poetic depth in the most skilful and openly passionate manner."

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ZACHARY LIPEZ

(Freshkills, Publicist UK)

"I crave it regularly and feel weird if I go a few days without any Lasher Keen-mixed potions..."

SACRAMENTO NEWS REVIEW

"Some fans have said the ritual induces incredible visions. Some swear it’s made them even see their spirit animal."

BLACK METAL & BREWS

"How the man and band were capable of releasing two albums in less than a year and putting together a stage performance to pair with the more recent album is beyond my understanding...

HEATHEN HARVEST

"While much music in this genre tends towards the melancholic and jaded, Lasher Keen shows us the things left in this world worth celebrating with ecstatic mirth. Lose yourself and join in the dance."

BLACK METAL & BREWS

"Perhaps this is one of the most telling facts of Lasher Keen’s music and presence: time and environment are displaced when listening to these captivating and otherworldly songs."

DOUG GAYLORD

(Punk Retrospective)

"There is depth, subtlety, awareness, integrity, intelligence and passion in this work and, for me, that makes it genuine. "

PLAGUE HAUS

"There are so many varying styles that every track is like getting a birthday present."

HENRY LAUER

(Hex Magazine)

"Lasher Keen have always evoked their own unique mythological atmosphere, and with this LP they’ve raised that talent to new heights."

Aaron Garland,

TYR, Myth, Culture, Tradition, vol.4

"Dalrymple MacAlpin’s vocals are prescient in nearly every song, echoing that indefinable juncture of the natural world and the spiritual realm that should appeal to anyone with a pantheistic or heathen worldview"

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY

"Dalrymple is a storyteller of singular grace and charm; someone we must embrace and celebrate."

Motoko

Award winning Japanese Storyteller

CAP RADIO

"Dalrymple MacAlpin is a playwright, composer, poet and puppeteer. He will debut his second theatrical production “Make Believe: An Archetypal Musical Theater Fairy Tale for the Young & Young at Heart.”

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ARTIST OF THE MONTH

"My first love was music.

As a very young boy I made up songs and unexpected sounds to go with them."

Joshua Buckley

TYR Myth, Culture, Traditions Vol 5

"Dalrymple's art is informed by that unique realm where ancient mythologies and the modern imagination intersect."

CHARLES SCHNEIDER

"MAKE BELIEVE is an absolutely prodigious and astonishing work of high-fantasy by a young master working at the height of his powers...

THE OZ MIX

"Some theatre offers an initiation, some seeks to entertain, Make Believe does both.

It very explicitly offers the key to magic"

THE UNION

"If you believe in magic and even if you don't, Dalrymple MacAlpin's

Make Believe will take you to an alternate world..."

THE ORFF ECHO

"The nearer one comes to the essence of the statement, the more immediate and powerful the effect."

THE UNION

"Local composer and playwright Dalrymple MacAlpin will be performing an array of selections from his highly acclaimed theatrical, musical fairy tale, “Make Believe,”