With longtime live collaborator, Benoit Guerroue, accompanying me on guitar and performing his sublime solo project CARBONIC (across the country from LA to PA); new friend, KNIVES OF SPAIN in the south; and a full week in the Northeast w/ ORION RIGEL DOMMISSE.
I’m so honored to have recorded a cover of Being in Love (one of my favorite Jason Molina songs) for the Graveface Records benefit album, Weary Engine Blues. It will be released later in the year on the vinyl version. All proceeds to benefit his family and memorial fund. More Info…
Spending time playing this song out live and recording it allowed me to feel what a precious thing it is to hold someone else’s song in your hands, in your lungs…to interpret it, to do it justice, to honor its intention. I love this song and I love the heart behind it that is forever Jason’s.
The limited edition 1st pressing of Ætherea (courtesy of Ismaily Imprint/SunOdeRecordings) is out!
You can buy it on my Bandcamp. Every LP comes with a free download card for the digital download of songs.
I remember when I used to make skronky punk music. That was the late 90s, and then one day, I came upon The Lioness by Songs: Ohia. Jason Molina’s voice, his poetry, the vulnerability–it struck me like quiet, searing lightning, and it resonated. It awoke that tender place in my heart that didn’t yet have the courage to speak itself the way Jason so bravely and honestly did. He changed my musical path and thus my life, and I will forever be grateful for his courage, honesty and struggle. I may not be singing the songs I do now were it not for Jason’s heartbreakingly beautiful voice and music.
Eternal gratitude and peace to you, Jason.
Secretly Canadian has established a paypal memorial fund for fans to help pay for his medical bills: http://www.secretlycanadian.com/index.php
is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter/recording artist. Her former project, dark psych-folk band Silver Summit, was one of the more unique excursions into the otherworldly realms. Similarly, her solo work travels the ether of her lyrics’ darkly romantic world, full of heartbreaking longing and desire. On her solo debut, Ætherea, guitar loops meet clouds of tempestuous string arrangements and morph into fingerpicked arpeggios… ethereal vocals give way to abandon, adjacent heavy drop-tuned guitar chords. Her aesthetic is at once difficult to pigeonhole and at the same time, familiar on an elemental level--transporting one to a place that is ever-present yet only liminally known.
“Epically divine sounds transcend minds in the musical dreamworld of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sondra Sun-Odeon. Her impeccably orchestrated debut solo album, Ætherea, is a truly delicate thing of beauty replete with a psych-folk tapestry (a la Angels of Light) soaring and weeping behind her.”