Preludes for Social Distancing

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1.	Silent Flight 03:25		buy track
2.	The Elders 01:42		buy track
3.	Come Closer 02:41		buy track
4.	Happy Little Trees 03:26		buy track
5.	Miserable Failure 03:24		buy track
6.	Grave 03:32		buy track
7.	The Opposite of Killing 03:47		buy track
8.	Baby Blues 01:06		buy track
9.	Coyote Sighting 02:41		buy track
10.	Skeleton Woman 04:10		buy track
11.	Forgotten Children 01:58		buy track
12.	Cigarettes & Beethoven 02:28		buy track
13.	Forgiveness Shift 03:28		buy track
14.	Guitar Song 06:50		buy track
15.	Firelight Demo (for Beirut) 03:44	lyrics
I heard you went down to the place where the people all ask crows for songs I heard you went down to the place where the people all wear thorns as crowns Did you get a chance to judge the girls for having a way of their own? Did you get a chance to shoot (shoot the girls) Shoot the girls as they breathe out their sins? And you call them sins (And you call them sins) Are they really sins if you’re the one whose doing the time? Is it really true that you found her lying awake in the fire? Her body was barely recognizable But the shadow of her face… Firelight. ______________________________________________________________ In memory of the all of the victims of the Beirut explosions. May we find answers and justice for them and their families. May the people of Lebanon find a glimmer of hope amidst this catastrophic loss.

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I didn't want to cry alone, so I am offering you these live performance pieces for healing and reflection, improvisations, experiments and aural documents I've recorded since the start of the global pandemic, with nothing but my iPhone and a hopeful heart. Enjoy the lo-fi goodness my babies. I love you.
x
Donia

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released March 20, 2020

Performed, produced, mixed and mastered by Donia Jarrar
Photography by Adrian Hernandez

Recorded live in the artist's home on March 19 and 20, 2020.

Silent Flight is dedicated to the memory of friend, ultimate crush, and visionary director and screenwriter Christopher Black. Rest in peace, love. We miss you down here. Thank you for believing in me.

Audio from Miserable Failure taken from Senator Elizabeth Warren's interview with Whoopi Goldberg on March 19, 2020. (Fair Use).

Audio from The Opposite of Killing taken from Bjork's interview of Arvo Part. 1997. BBC. (Fair Use).

Cigarettes & Beethoven quotes Op. 110

Thank you to Angelo for letting me borrow his guitar.
Thank you to Randa for the album art of me to a tee.
I love my family.

Lyrics for Skeleton Woman:

Skeleton Woman
Skeleton Woman is coming for you
She's going to take the bones
Collecting them
inside a bag
with seashells
and other kinds of bones like
wolf bones
and the tears of men with weathered long faces

She prefers to take a little bit
tiny bones of the children
they are easier for her to carry

She clickity-clackity-clacks
over to a body
and then she puts her bony mouth
on your face

Drinking the tears
She will bake bread
on the bones of
your family

How does it feel?
how does it feel?
how does it feel to be scared for once?

Skeleton Woman
She is going to come for you
She has a wreath of flowers
She's gonna put it on your grave

Could it be could it be
She is not the one for you?
could it be could it be could it be
She
is not
the one for
you?

As she exhales I fail to light a candle.

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Phonodelica Los Angeles, California

PHONODELICA is the experimental sound project from Palestinian-Egyptian-American composer, producer and performer Donia Jarrar.

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