Spilling Light by Prairie Clamor

released March 27, 2020

This album was created (mostly) above a laundromat in Saint Paul, MN from one winter to another winter, by:

✵Will Bjorndal - Drums, Cymbals, Piano, Singing, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Digital Synthesizers, Analog Synthesizers, Mandolin, Autoharp, Electric Bass, Samples, Field Recordings, Accordion, Melodica, Banjo, Casiotone, Drum Machines, Timpani, Congas, Claves, Bongos, Maracas, Shaker, Scraper Thingy, Ratchet, Go-Go Bells, Vibraslap, Radio Interference, Chanting, Unidentifiable Noises, Songwriting, Engineering, Production, Mixing, Mastering, Word Processing

✵Peter Bjorndal - Production and Electric Guitar on “Pop Music Savior”, Electric Bass and Production on “Luxury of the Wave,” Album Art & Design

✵Taylor Sharp reads an excerpt from his poem "Ode To Humanity" on "Humus."

T H A N K S
...Judy, Lee, Peter, & Chester Bjorndal for unfaltering familial support and encouragement
...Q, Erik, Chris, Jesse, Ana, Emily & Shaun, Anthony, Shelly & Dan, and everyone else who helped us out during the Clamoring Across America Tour
...Cheryl Berglund for access to the percussion studio
...Peter, Gary, Taylor, for sonic suggestions
...Chris, Ali, and all the Neighborhood Naturalists for inspiration and flexibility
...to the creators, thinkers, do-ers. Especially Anne Herbert, Liz Harris, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Matthew Friedberger, Julia Holter, Brian Doyle, Hussalonia, Jlin, Andrew W.K., Phil Elverum, Shyboy Tim & Shelley, Sun Ra, John Maus, Cathy Song, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, CRYING, Lucinda Williams, Charlie Parr, Daniel Bachman, Nanilo, Éliane Radigue, Jonathan Richman, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Martin Dosh, and so many more...
...to you. I put a heckuva lot of myself into this album; it's like a horcrux, but in a really good way. Any amount of your time means so so so so so much. Please let me know what you think!
-Will Bjorndal (email: will [at] prairieclam.org)

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Retroreflected sunlight from concrete bridge deck signage. Half-frozen corn fields that would delight at the scrunch of your feet in late march. Stale coffee steams in a paper cup. Ancient breath in the injection-molded plastic chair. Luxury, inconvenience, reality. Peanut butter straight from the jar. Despite The Gravity, light pours in every direction from you always.