BIO
The Lodestones bring you songs from the land of darkness and astral twilight, from the deepest corner of the American nightmare, and from the altars along the road to love and eternity. Steeped in the deep tea of DIY punk, noise, and experimental sound, The Lodestones emerge as something direct, definite, and intentional, while drawing from various folk musics of America and the world.
Songwriter, poet, film maker, audio engineer Jeffrey Rocketmild met artist Dena Goldsmith-Stanley while performing solo as 3 Moons in Portland Oregon in 2011. The pair soon began a collaboration and moved into a battered RV, touring and traveling extensively, writing and performing plays, psychedelic improvisational sound, and songs, before settling in the Bay Area in 2013. In addition to performing as the Lodestones, the two joined the Santa Cruz based freak folk institution Village of Spaces, and are currently touring internationally as members of Jackie O Motherfucker.
CIPHERS OF THE SAINTS
NEW FULL LENGTH ALBUM out now via PSYOP / Stone Poem "The Lodestones refers to the songs, and these songs were written in a van, a secret library, a remote island in the nether realms of the Pacific, an airport motel outside of Atlanta, on TV, and during a lifetime briefly spent in the gold rush ghost town in which they were recorded, before returning to San Francisco to begin again. Regarding saints, names that come to mind are John Coltrane, Dianne DiPrima, Tecumseh, Sun Ra... Holy names I hesitate to speak here, but I do because the ciphers they carved are paths into skies that are alive. Songlines that create and destroy territory. Down below, in the trail of blood on the maps, where the compass spins and spirals, I take my own leaps of faith and litmus tests. And even as a subtle emanation, and even in the face of the days we are so deep in, these songs take up their own odysseys, their own bent missions to bring you something...
KASIDAH : DANIEL HIGGS, JEFFREY ROCKETMILD, BUCK CURRAN, SIR RICHARD BURTON
