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This Folkadelphia special originally aired on XPN in Philly on 3/14/15. Shared today in full on the 13th Anniversary of 'Didn't It Rain'. This broadcast includes interviews with Jason's fellow musicians and collaborators Mike Slo-Mo Brenner and Edan Cohen, and also covers from local Philadelphia bands.

More info here: http://bit.ly/unsung_sohspecial
Hear the covers separately: http://bit.ly/xpnfolk_sohspecial_covers
Hear the originals on Spotify: http://bit.ly/xpnfolk_songsoriginals

The covers album is available for free download for 30 days: http://bit.ly/xpn_sohcovers_bandcamp
Please consider making a donation in honor of Jason Molina to MusiCares: www.grammy.org/musicares/donate

[photo: Jennie Bedford's lyric work sheet to "Steve Albini's Blues" during the 'Didn't It Rain' session]

Didn‚Äôt It Rain

Two Blue Lights

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Folkadelphia - Songs: Ohia (Full Unsung Special on WXPN)



Poetry is something many of us seem to be hungry for these days. We're hungry for fresh ways to tell hard truths and redemptive stories, for language that would elevate and embolden rather than demean and alienate. Elizabeth Alexander shares her sense of what poetry works in us — and in our children — and why it may become more relevant, not less so, in hard and complicated times.

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/elizabeth-alexander-words-that-shimmer/246

Elizabeth Alexander — Words That Shimmer

Byron Westbrook - Precipice
Edition of 300 LP / Digital Download

Worldwide: October 2nd, 2015

Precipice is Byron Westbrook’s first long playing record under his given name. Operating under the handle Corridors for many years, Byron has established a reputation for creating immersive multi-channel, site specific live experiences using sound, image and light. Precipice expounds upon these ideas as a collection of approaches to texture, landscape, perception of time, and the potential for sound to generate visual space. Like climbing a column which inexplicably leads to a plateau of glass, the topography above and below visible in crystal clear relief.

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Spectral Ascension

Meadowlands to the Kills 
lay open like pockets to fill 
as the coin of the sun changes hands 
from the East to the West & back again 
on the great estates & their hired fakes & settlements 
of insurance claims in the netted names of banks & loans 
We have one thing we own & we know it only when it’s gone 
Rising in the Hollywood Hills, dreaming of Westerns 
& pills & the sweet, sweet rest of silk 
at the bottom of those bottomless wells 
I thought I’d see your name in lights, maybe 7 feet tall 
& 10 feet wide over the pressure brakes 
in the diamond lanes of the interstate 
where the litter scatters like fame 
Rising in the Hollywood Hills, dreaming of Westerns 
& pills & the sweet, sweet rest of silt 
at the bottom of those bottomless wells 
Where sure as a legendary bird burns all night to turn 
our excess into earth, coal like a brother burns 
an oil barrel’s worth & all we’ve got is words 
Come hail, come fog, come rail, come cog 
Come railing on, rising in the Hollywood Hills 
dreaming of Westerns & pills & the sweet, sweet rest 
of silt at the bottom of those bottomless wells 
Full harbor, come now & show me 
my old way around this dirty old town

Music & lyrics by Jasmine Dreame Wagner 
Recorded & mixed by Sejo Navajas at 4th Street Recording 
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering 
Cover photo by Thomas Celan 
Copyright © 2016 Jasmine Dreame Wagner 
All rights reserved

Jasmine Dreame Wagner - Full Harbor

Recorded live 07.30.16 at sunset
The Palms, Wonder Valley, CA

Live From Wonder Valley

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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GRAVE154 - Preorder here:
https://graveface.bandcamp.com/album/desyre

Recorded by Alex De Groot (Zola Jesus), DESYRE includes collaborators Thor Harris (SWANS), J.R. Bohannon (Ancient Ocean), Lia Simone Braswell (A Place to Bury Strangers) and Mary Lattimore on harp.

Sondra Sun-Odeon - Roses In The Snow

Light Below

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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Sondra Sun-Odeon

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