Description
Secretly Canadian is proud to reissue a limited run of Songs:
Ohia’s Protection Spells, a collection of some of the most
precious time capsules in the greater Molina Vaults. Protection
Spells has a spotty release history, with long periods out of print
and limited formats. It returns to print now for the first time in
over a decade (possibly two) and for the first time on vinyl.
Of Protection Spells, Molina had this to say:
“The Protection Spells is a collection of songs recorded over a
period of several Songs: Ohia tours. Presented here are nine
entirely improvised pieces. The approach to these songs
involved no rehearsals, no second takes, no additions and no
going back. What you have here are songs that just happened
in real time. The many musicians on these recordings were
friends, bandmates, and, at times, total strangers. I have long
hoped to offer the listener a chance to have some of these great
accidents on record. It is a direct look at my songwriting process,
only a little more risky, and nobody has any idea what direction
we are going until we all start working on it together. I think
that the years of improvised music I played in the past helped to
strengthen the risk-taking with these songs. Here the goal was
to still have basic songs without falling into long freak-out noise
experiments, saving that kind of exploration for live settings. You
will notice the appearances and disappearances of ideas that
could never be recreated, not that they are all brilliant, but they
are certainly not forced. The seemingly arbitrary moments of
strange repetition the lyrics, the clear lack of a preconceived
system of established song parts, all are the marks of improvised
songwriting. Since even the singing had no idea what the
floorplan of the song was to be, there were some unanticipated
troubles and some shy steps taken, but I have preserved these
mappings of the dangerous musical byroads that Songs: Ohia
has always depended on. I hope you enjoy this.” — Jason Molina,
Tracklisting
1. Trouble Will Find You
2. The Moon Undoes It All
3. Darkness That Strong
4. Keep Only One Of Us Free
5. The World At The End Of The World
6 Fire On The Shore
7 Mighty Like Love, Mighty Like Sorrow
8 The One Red Star
9 Whenever I Have Done A Thing In Flames
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