Album Notes

Jed and Lucia love the sound of vibrating strings stretched over
warped wooden boxes, resontating objects struck with meditative love,
tuned circuits evolving from silence, and orchestras gently mangled to
the point of unrecognizability. These are the sounds that bring their
songs to life.

Jed and Lucia come from two distinctly different but complementary
songwriting traditions. Jed being from the Pacific Northwest and
Lucia hailing from Sweden, their collective voice is one of Seattle
and Stockhom finding common musical ground. Playing host to this
experiment is Southern California, where the naturally cold and
rain-drenched angst of the two songwriters has been set out to dry
beneath the relentless sun.

The two can be found sitting on their porch in the old civil war
stagecoach stop of Chatsworth Lake, hidden away in the mountains on
the far Northwestern border of Los Angeles without a streetlight or
established property line in sight. The original home of the Lone
Ranger and current home of The Hells Angels and at least one
survivalist cult, its Topanga Canyon with guns and horses, landing on
the border of L.A. county and Ventura so that neither police
department will claim it to be within their jurisdiction. Its a place
condusive to creating outside the norm, and where Jed and Lucia first
fused their abstract folk with electronically organic beats and
soundscapes.

Their sound comes from somewhere between Stina Nordenstam, Caribou, Iron and Wine, Masha Qrella, Magnet, Andrew Bird, Joseph Arthur, Azure Ray, Jack Johnson, Mia Doi Todd, William Oldham, Feist, Inara George, Lemon Jelly, M Ward, Rachael Yamagata, Meshuggah, Kings of Convenience, Anna
Ternheim, and The Be Good Tanyas.