Arriving in Seattle in the Nineties as an improvising, jam-banding technical piano player, Greg Dember was inevitably influenced by both the rainy-day moodiness and the sunny-sky pop-melodicism of his new home's music scene.

Ten years into the new millenium, we find Greg thriving creatively as a singer and songwriter, with a style that reminds listeners of artists such as Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Death Cab For Cutie/Postal Service, Ben Folds Five, The Flaming Lips, Wilco and The Shins, but also with hints of classic Paul Simon and The Kinks, as well as the earnest quirk of Jonathan Richman.

Along the way, Greg's song "Hey Hey It's The Vegetable Man" was covered by East Coast nerd rockers The Happiest Guys In The World, and made it midway up the College Radio charts in 1996.

"Salesman", a song Greg wrote and sang in circus-rock band Rumpus, was featured over the opening credits/montage of Hollywood Indie film "Outside Sales" (Blayne Weaver, Tricia O'Kelley, 2005), which won awards in several festivals.

In between, Greg co-fronted and recorded an album with Lavish Cat (Your Dream, self-released 2000) and fronted CHIEFLY (Planets of Plenty, self-released 2005), both of which received local Seattle airplay.

Now, recording and performing under his own name, Greg has released two records I Don't Know I Think I Fell From The Sky (2008), and the brand new Water Makes Waves (2011).

All of Greg's records feature a sound lush with melodic strings, horns and occasional electronic instruments, built on top of solid guitar/piano/drums/bass arrangements, as well as several more spare acoustic-guitar or piano-based songs.

The composition, performance and production on all of these tracks reveal Greg's passion and wit in a way that is both very personal and universal at the same time.
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