Goddess of hinges, doors, thresholds, flesh, beans & more

Cardea

The Lonesome Ghost of the Susquehanna

A song about what happened at Dyatlov Pass

Dead Mountain

Can't stop writing songs with the word "dead" in the title. Angry breakup song.

Dead Heart

Inspired by a quote of Lena Horne & all the days that you can't make yourself face up to the dust in your corners.

Spring Cleaning

James is going for that post-rock feel in the intro.

Empty Rooms

Diaphony encircles a thicket with twine, disregarded trinkets, and a congress of communicants, gathered for unpremeditated meditation.

Annulus

live from another planet (which looked suspiciously like this one here, but.....).

'17.

SunOfGoldfinger-live-CongratulationsToYou

Written and recorded in November 2018 in my home studio.  Playing the role of the Upside Down Man, it's fun in a song and would be terrifying in reality! That's why art is so powerful.

Upside Down Man

How can the mockingbird go deaf and still sing?  This is a new song, recorded April 2 in my home.  Will change over time but I am really feeling these early beginnings.

Mockingbird, First Version April 2

Helene Augustine is the musical project for the visual artist Jenn Myers, based in southern Virginia.  These are like queer prayers - the best form to express the never-ending rhyme/devotion that inhabits my being. Tragedy and miracle expressed as heartbreak and devotion.  All of it.  My version of ecstatic poetry.  I began this practice with a Casio keyboard and have now graduated to a Yamaha P45 digital piano. Using very basic chord structures for accompaniment, Helene Augustine performs with the borrowed/inherited name of my great great-aunt who died in 1901 at the age of 18 in Austin, TX.