About

“Sondra Sun-Odeon sings as if reading ancient chants straight out of the Cosmonomicon…”

-TimeOutNY

“Sondra Sun-Odeon’s trembling voice calls to mind Karen Dalton and Grace Slick…..”

-Flavorpill

Sondra Sun-Odeon is a 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.

Sun-Odeon, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, plays guitar, keys, baglama saz, and played drums in several DC postpunk noise/no wave bands at the turn of the millenium. It was not until writing the lyrical folk and world music inflected songs of SILVER SUMMIT that she explored using her voice.

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.

An upcoming solo album release 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).