March 06, 2010

Songs: Ohia / Travels In Constants / 2001

 

Peak period Jason Molina, exorcising his demons through typical images of moons, winged apparitions, sickles and blackness over 18 skeletal minutes. There's a ghostly echo of the vocals at the 7 minute mark, as if Molina is singing a duet with one of his lost souls, trapped somewhere out in the wilderness.

Travels In Constants was a subscription only series of 22 EPs by various artists, released by Brooklyn label Temporary Residence between 1999 and 2007.

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7 comments:

  1. Picking this! Do you thin is better than the MAGNIFICENT "Ghost Tropic"?

    Great blog, btw

    Margot
    http://moonmusick.blogspot.com/

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  2. This EP — well, track — feels like more of an impromptu outpouring than any of the S:O albums. which do seem like considered whole entities. Except for Protection Spells, probably my favourite, which is a collection of songs from various sessions, recorded on the road, I think. That one is much more sketch-like, and very reminiscent of the Dirty Three in parts.

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  3. Excellent, thanks for sharing. x

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  4. "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavailable."
    Does that mean it's gone then? Can someone re-up? Thanks!

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  5. Ignore ^, it's back. Thankyou.

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  6. "...as if Molina is singing a duet with one of his lost souls, trapped somewhere out in the wilderness."

    well said. thanks a million.

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