Opal Satellite – I cassetteOpal Satellite I cassette "Growing up means your mental models of the world are more likely to match observable results in the 'real world'. Or to say it differently: Growing up means, your plants are not dying anymore. I am not sure we have grown up quite yet, but maybe embarking on a 25 minute free form improvisation, with the tape rolling, relies just as much on what you know, as trusting the things you do not know yet. Just as much being in touch

Being shaken awake from a malaise and realizing there is no time for petty bullshit

He quit his bartending job

either as Murmurists or under his own name

and populated by lines like “Boys so proud to make the most / Of your abusive father’s ghost / With dreams of knife-fight sacrifice / To feed a dead-eyed god

) It's not a masterpiece

“Do You Wrong

and acoustic folk

syrupy distortion you can almost touch

and soothing acoustic songs

) and some more blah blah blah

all maintained high levels of quality while sometimes venturing outside the signature Jawbox sound

formerly as the solo project of singer / guitarist Jana Sotzko from Berlin/ Germany