Andy Brown

Keyboardist Andy Brown and guitarist Rex Ritter have been in two bands together, both with recording histories. Jessamine, considered an example of the style known as "drone rock," with apologies to bee hives, came out of the obscure college town of Galion, Ohio, but became associated with the Pacific Northwest once the band relocated to Seattle. As the term post rock began getting bandied about, apologies to mailmen, the pair of collaborators would fold this folded the band in favor of a new project called Fontanelle. This late '90s outfit differed from the previous band in that Brown and Ritter began shuffling through a changing group of additional players rather than settling into the fixed membership, college-chum vibe of Jessamine. Not that there is anything wrong with this kind of camaradarie, at least in terms of projecting appeal. Jessamine's first Sub Pop single, ""Your Head Is So Small managed to get positive attention despite especially big-headed competition in 1994.

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