Ætherea is the debut solo album by Sondra Sun-Odeon, Brooklyn-based singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist who is the voice and half the songwriting force behind dark-neofolk-psych-rock band Silver Summit, whose first release was on Language of Stone/Drag City and recorded by Greg Weeks of Espers in his all-analog studio, Hexham Head and subsequently signed them.

Her solo songs travel further into the ether of her lyrics’ darkly romantic world, full of heartbreaking longing and desire. Guitar loops meet clouds of delicate string arrangements and morph into fingerpicked arpeggios…ethereal vocals morph into banshee-wailing abandon adjacent to detuned guitars. The sounds are at times reminiscent of Earth, Keiji Haino, Nico and Grace Slick, and yet exist in a unique tonal world of its own that’s extremely difficult to pin down.

The album includes collaborations with Helena Espvall (of Espers), Leyna Marika Papach (Carla Bouzalich, JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia), and percussion by Ben McConnell (Beach House, Brightblack Morning Light, Marissa Nadler).

Recorded and mixed by Jeff Cook during Jan-Nov 2011.
Produced by Sondra Sun-Odeon and Jeff Cook.

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Golden Bird

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Gate

Ætherea is the debut solo album by Sondra Sun-Odeon, Brooklyn-based singer, writer, and multi-instrumentalist who is the voice and half the songwriting force behind dark-neofolk-psychrock band Silver Summit, whose first release was on Language of Stone/Drag City.

Her solo songs travel further into the ether of her lyrics’ darkly romantic world, full of heartbreaking longing and desire. Guitar loops meet clouds of delicate string arrangements and morph into fingerpicked arpeggios…ethereal vocals morph into banshee-wailing abandon adjacent to detuned guitars. The sounds are at times reminiscent of Earth, Keiji Haino, Nico and Grace Slick, and yet exist in a unique tonal world of its own that’s extremely difficult to pin down.

The album includes collaborations with Helena Espvall (of Espers), Leyna Marika Papach (Carla Bouzalich, JG Thirlwell’s Manorexia), and percussion by Ben McConnell (Beach House, Brightblack Morning Light, Marissa Nadler).

Recorded and mixed by Jeff Cook during Jan-Nov 2011.
Produced by Sondra Sun-Odeon and Jeff Cook.

Violent Sea

DESYRE, out now on Graveface Records. Sondra Sun-Odeon's solo work is drenched in the ethereal, soft doom, and otherworldliness. The heavier sound of her new album, DESYRE, took shape in the studio over 2018 with Alex DeGroot (Zola Jesus) engineering/producing; it includes collaborators Thor Harris (SWANS) and John Bohannon (Ancient Ocean) and also features: vocals by Lia Simone Braswell (A Place to Bury Strangers) and Mary Lattimore on harp.

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