Jasper Leach

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Jasper Patrick Leach (usually credited as Jasper Leach) is an American musician, recording engineer, and music journalist based in New York City. He is the frontman of the psychedelic rock group Burner Herzog and previously led the Oakland indie rock band Brasil (2012-circa 2016) and the San Francisco psychedelic collective The Myonics (2006–2012). He was also the musical director for the reunion of Cold Sun at 2011’s Austin Psych Fest. As a journalist, Leach contributed an oral history of the Athens, Georgia rock band Harvey Milk to Maggot Brain Issue 17 (2024), published by Third Man Records. He contributed a feature essay on Mayo Thompson's album Corky's Debt to His Father to Maggot Brain Issue 18 (2024), which editor Mike McGonigal described as "a stunningly good and very deep dive." In 2016, he co-authored an academic article on the same album for Southwestern American Literature. He has production and engineering credits on releases for Slumberland Records and Castle Face Records, including Tony Molina's Kill the Lights (Slumberland, 2018), for which Molina named the track "Jasper's Theme" in his honor.