After planting the seed for this album during a one-off show in 2012, David Bazan + Passenger String Quartet / Volume 1 contains all new studio recordings of Pedro the Lion and David Bazan solo songs.

For many years, David Bazan was the songwriter and driving force behind the acclaimed band Pedro the Lion, building a dedicated following and selling a couple hundred-thousand albums. After a decade helming the project, Bazan found himself embroiled in a major personal philosophical and spiritual cataclysm. After working through this, Bazan ditched the Pedro moniker and released the Fewer Moving Parts EP (2006) and two full-length albums, Curse Your Branches (2009), and Strange Negotiations (2011) under his own name.

The Passenger String Quartet is an avant-garde, experimental neo-classical group, formed by Northwest composer/violinist Andrew Joslyn. The group is in high demand as studio session musicians, tours & performs original compositions, as well as backs a wide variety of regional, and national touring groups from DJ Spooky, Suzanne Vega, to Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Ivan and Alyosha, Kris Orlowski, Doug Martsche, and many more.