“My knees sank in the mud as the wind roared against me. Rain fell like a swarm of bees, and I saw a monstrous wave of water racing towards me. It consumed me, devoured me, and then it passed. Now the weight of a sword filled my hand, unfamiliar yet strangely comforting. It is my music and my vision, my voice and my strength. It calls me by a different name, driving me ever onward.”
Folk’s Tales is Nate’s primary artistic project, but not his only one. Check out some of his other work below.
Fragile Son
Fragile Son is Nate’s outlet for songwriting and music-making. His latest album, FOLK, was released in 2025. It features fresh arrangements of seven different hundred-year-old (or more) Folk songs. Nate sourced each song from Carl Sandburg’s The American Songbag, a book originally published in 1927 to chronicle folk songs from all across the United States. The album heavily features banjos, samples Nate captured specifically for the album, and digitally altered vocals.
Before FOLK, Nate released the self-titled Fragile Son in 2020, and Awake Sleeper in 2023. Awake Sleeper is a micro-concept album focused on the intersection of brokenness and the biblical themes of death and rebirth. It features dark, dissonant, and layered instruments that carry an atmosphere through its whole 18-minute runtime.
Fragile Son features some of Nate’s best songwriting from the first 5 years of his practice, blanketed in layers of acoustic guitars, warm synthesizers, and driving percussion.
Music for Dance
Cut and Paste is a dance film created by Zoë Meadows-Sahr. Nate composed and produced the music for this piece.
Podcast Production
Two writers, Morgan Page & Sara Billups, pause from tackling more “serious” topics to create a silly and lighthearted “podcast about nothing for those carrying everything.” Nate is their producer.
Telling Stories is a project of Grace Chruch Seattle where congregation members share stories from their lives. Nate handles the postproduction, creates the theme music, and assists with many other aspects of this project.