Mycal is a Petaluma-based songwriter making folk-electronic music out of the places that shape him. One record was forged in dust, steel, and firelight on the playa. The next is held by water, family, and twenty-two summers on the north shore of Clearlake.
Long-time Burner. Member of the Reared in Steel fire art collective. Songwriter working in folk, electronic, and the cinematic space in between. The music is story-driven and place-driven: camps, kitchens, docks, dust, and the long afterglow of communities that keep changing you.
Based in Petaluma, California. Writing songs out of two distinct worlds and letting them sit next to each other on the same shelf.
Fire. Made as a gift for Burning Man 2025, written from inside the Reared in Steel build season. The songs move between humor, devotion, exhaustion, grief, and joy, treating playa culture as both spectacle and intimate human practice.
Water. An upcoming concept album drawn from twenty-two years at a lake house on the north shore of Clearlake. Summers on the water, kids growing up at the dock, and the wider orbit of relatives and friends who made the big blue house part of their own map. Two tracks feature MaryCal. Out June 15, 2026.
Alongside the records, Mycal writes in a format he calls Cronosonics: an essay paired with a companion song, so the prose carries the argument and the song carries the memory. People forget bullet points. They don't forget choruses.
The constant across the records is not genre. It is fidelity to place. One body of work is forged in dust, steel, and fire. The other is held by water, family, and time. Together they sketch the full shape of the project: music made from the communities that built the life around it.