"Every jangly guitar chord ever broadcast over AM radio is still out there vibrating, one wave among many in the ever-expanding cosmos. They hear Roy Orbison's three-octaves loud and clear at the other end of the galaxy, the Vox Continental minor/major organ stabs from '96 Tears' teeter around the edge of some celestial Kirby Crackle, The Ronnettes' broken hearted melodies bounce off purple deserts on the dark side of Venus. The songs are out there, you simply have to tune your instruments to them.

Jason Woodbury is a galactic citizen, dialing in from the Sonoran Desert on planet Earth. 'Something Happening/Always Happening' is the debut from his project JPW. It’s a collection of songs you might hear on the radio after a transcendental trip as you settle into the seat of your wood-paneled station wagon to drive home for work the next morning. Songs for stepping out of the spaceship to crack a goddamn cold one on a blurry summer day, taking a moment to enjoy the smell of freshly cut grass.

Woodbury's voice may be familiar to those interested in the more theologic strains of American songwriting. For the last decade, he’s penned liner notes and criticism, and contributed to Aquarium Drunkard, hosting the weekly Transmissions podcast and Range and Basin on Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard on dublab, a radiophonic showcase for his love of comic books, science fiction, and mysticism. All of that is legible on the surface of 'Something Happening/Always Happening,' but here listeners are gifted with another side of Jason's voice: his singing, which is just as unhurried and serene as you'd expect.
Mostly self-recorded by Woodbury with longtime musical collaborators Zach Toperek and Zane Gillum, the album was produced by Michael Krassner of Boxhead Ensemble, a long running instrumental combo which has aligned members of Dirty Three, Califone, Will Oldham, Gastr del Sol, Jim O'Rourke, and many more. A natural outgrowth of their work together on Range and Basin and shared love of Arizona's diverse topography, Krassner wandered deep into the sounds, adding guitar and piano to the ghostly tones, percolating Rhythm Ace drum machine beats, and sand dune surf guitars. The result is mood music in a sense—listen casually and you might even miss the unexplained aerial phenomena before your eyes. But by the time the final/title track, built on a sample of Link Cromwell's (Lenny Kaye) 'Crazy Like a Fox,' reaches its atomizing 9th minute, Woodbury's thesis is clear: not only are we all made of star stuff, that stuff is alive and vibrating. Adjust your frequencies and hear it sing."
—Ben Seretan

Jason Woodbury: vocals, bass, guitar, rhythm machines 
Zane Gillum: bass
Zach Toporek: drums, keys, bass, guitar, percussion 
Michael Krassner: guitar, piano, keys
Laraine Kaizer-Viazovtsev: string arrangements, violin 
Danny Frankel: conga 
Stephen Hodges: drums

All songs written by Jason Woodbury, except “Wealth of the Canyon” (Woodbury/Krassner) and  “Halfway to Eloy (Halfway Back)” (Woodbury/Toporek) 

Produced by Michael Krassner at the 7-Track Shack 
Recorded by Jason Woodbury, Zach Toporek, and Michael Krassner
Cover photo: Dorothea Lange, November 1940, taken in a cotton field near Coolidge, Arizona, via US National Archives and Records Administration.

Always Happening

Disgelo

Specchio - Disgelo

Specchio - Merito

One Hitter Quitter Again.......:-)

Written by DPJ. Recorded @ The Ocotillo, Los Angeles w/ David Jerkovich and Danny Nogueiras, 2016-17
credits
released August 13, 2019 

David P Jensen- Vocals, Guitar 
David J Jerkovich- Guitars, Bass 
Tripp Beam- Drums 

Produced by David Jerkovich 
Engineered by Danny Nogueiras and David Jerkovich 
Recorded at The Ocotillo, Los Angeles, CA, 2016-17. 

"Knowhere" single art design by Madi Altman. Additional photography by Annelise Jensen. 

KNOWHERE video: vimeo.com/sunsetalliance/knowhere 


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KNOWHERE LYRICS 

I don’t know where to go 
If I did, I would have got there long ago 

I can see that they’re going down roads that may have been meant for me 
Where I might feel alive 

I look older now and I feel it all passing me by 
Like I’ve been taken for a ride 
While I wasn’t looking I was taken for a ride 

Numb the pain 
Feel a flicker in my fingers fear the nerves are turning gray 
When I lose faith I wanna stray 
I keep some hope, but think my efforts only prolong the pain 
I’ve lost my way, but not my strength 
I don’t know where I’m going, but I can’t go back the way I came 

I’m older now and ready to stop stalling for time 
Before I wasn’t asking, but now will you take me for a ride 

Well I don’t know when I’ll finally get somewhere 
I guess I’ll know when I get there 

Still try to go, but got nothing to get me there 
I can accept that it’s never fair 

I need to go because I need to get somewhere 
I need to go ‘cause we all need to be somewhere 
Do I need to go or do I need to stay right here 
I need to know before I go. 

Alternate cover art by Exxart and Madi Altman.

Knowhere

Knowhere (Get Right)

Dirty Riffage

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David Jensen (Before Braille/Art For Starters) now writes & plays under the name Loyal Wife. Debut album "Faux Light" released in 2012. Sophomore album "Get Right"(produced by David Jerkovich of Novi Split/Deep Dream w/ Danny Noguieras of No Win) in 2017. 
Live and studio musicians have included Ashley Taylor, Blake Kimball, Sam Hardwig, Spencer Reed, David Jerkovich, Danny Nogueiras, Tripp Beam, Anthony Pausic, Laena Geronimo and Vicki Brown.

Knowhere (Get Right)

LOYALWIFE

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