Protection Spells, by Songs: Ohia

Protection Spells

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1.	Trouble Will Find You 05:30	buy track
2.	The Moon Undoes It All 05:48	buy track
3.	Darkness That Strong 04:17	buy track
4.	Keep Only One Of Us Free 05:12	buy track
5.	The World At The End Of The World 05:41	buy track
6.	Fire On The Shore 05:26	buy track
7.	Mighty Like Love, Mighty Like Sorrow 04:07	buy track
8.	The One Red Star 05:17	buy track
9.	Whenever I Have Done A Thing In Flames 07:05	buy track

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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, July 10, 2000

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released July 1, 2000

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