Join the Resistance, Fall In Love.
Howdy folks! Matt here. Storm Mountain can be found up Big Cottonwood Canyon on the way to Brighton, Utah. As a little kid I would ride up the canyon in my parents car, and the one of the first songs I ever sang went something like this. "Storm Mountain, Storm Mountain, Storm Mountain." Hence, This record label represents my desire to get back to the values at the core of art and music that drew me so much to it in the first place. Therefore, the pseudo-mission statement goes something like this:

The Manifesto

  • Let us make music and art because we love it, because we feel the need to express ourselves, and because we want to share our creations with those that we love.
  • Let the contributution to the creation of meaningful lives, fulfilling communities, and a more just, sustainable, and loving world be equally as important as the bottom line.
  • Let us strive to keep our art as free, honest, and passionate as possible, as a true expression of the moment, our feelings, thoughts, deepest desires, and ideals, as well as our innermost flaws, failings, life's inherent contradictions, and our inescapable hypocrisy.
  • Let us keep our art from becoming subservient to any political agenda, (especially our own) to the all-encompassing illusion, or to our own hip image as Storm Mountain Records artists and fans.
  • Let us not take ourselves or all this theoretical buggabaloo too seriously, aight??? I mean, I still totally check my Myspace everyday, and the other day I wore a mustache, a cowboy hat, and Ben and I invented a game called hookshot fonanza. I mean, c'mon!

So that pretty much wraps up the basic philosophy. I understand that by creating cds or anything else and selling them over the internet, I am up to my hiney in a system that is in direct contradiction with my core aims, that Storm Mountain itself perpetuates an image just as does MTV or Abercrombie, and that I am hoping that you might come to this site and buy something, so I don't have to work a crappy job and can instead be one of the very few people in our economy who actually gets paid to do something that they sincerely enjoy. (Made possible, of course, by all those who can only dream of such a possibility.) However, I feel that this contradiction provides a perfect illustration of what exactly I've been trying to say all this time. I'm a human. You're a human. Have a nice day!

Love, Matt