Biography

Orion Redwolf is an American songwriter, producer, and artist renowned for his emotive genre-exploring style. In 2018, he began releasing and touring as Orion and the Melted Crayons. With his May 2, 2024 release “Stormy Days,” he adopted his middle name, Redwolf, to authentically convey the personal nature of his new material. As a child in Virginia, Redwolf spent hours upon hours playing his emotions out on his mother's Baldwin Acrosonic Piano and listening to a battery-powered radio making up his own words & melodies for pop songs before he began writing his own songs. Fast forward to adulthood, Orion Redwolf’s rich and bendy vocals deliver his direct songwriting on top of intricate guitar and luscious production. Lyrically, he draws inspiration from human experiences and the natural world around him to craft evocative compositions that resonate deeply with audiences.

Redwolf was awarded the inaugural Virginia Commission for the Arts songwriting fellowship in 2023 in the wake of his debut 2021 record, The Good Stuff. Using the state funding, Orion Redwolf has been working with a diverse list of instrumentalists and studios around the USA, ramping up to monthly releases. The upcoming “Glow” and the last drop, “Stormy Days,” mark the first collaborations with a co-producer on his own material. Matt Wyatt (Night Teacher, Self) supported Redwolf’s music at his personal studio, Tree and Booms, via engineering and his signature jazz-oriented drumming style.

With the two creatives combined, Redwolf’s vision for “Glow” as a dark, indie world came to life around the fantastical feeling lyrics stemming from childhood memories of reading Grimm's Fairy Tales. The new single serenely reclines on a loping, finger-style guitar riff while the Virginia-based artist's dusty and bendy vocals guide listeners on a sonic journey through an enchanted forest. The varied instrumentation by Redwolf, including slide guitar and Wurlitzer, and Wyatt's bombastic drumming feel like fantastical characters popping by for a cup of tea at dusk. For lovers of Hozier, Alt-J, Michael Kiwanuka, John Butler, Joni Mitchell, and Grimm's Fairy Tales.

In addition to releasing his own music, Orion Redwolf produces and writes for artists around the US, helping them channel their musical visions. His signature production can be heard on the material of Eloise Granville, Kat Hammock, Isabel March, Asher Friedman, Breaker Novogratz, J-Renee, Katherine Nies, Kara Leona, Cougar Beatrice, and select releases by Kendall Street Company. His instrumental and engineering contributions can be heard on even more records, including material by Andrew Montana, Nan Macmillian, Lora Kelly, Castle Walls, Isabel Bailey Band, Kendall Street Company, Uga Buga, Who Shot John, and countless more.

Listen to his music at https://linktr.ee/orionredwolf or on all streaming platforms. More information at www.orionredwolf.com