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Track: Mountains Still Asleep
Artist: Damien Jurado
Album: Maraqopa

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Name: Damien Jurado
Spotify Genres: indie folk
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American indie/folk singer/songwriter and guitarist. His solo career began during the mid-1990s, releasing lo-fi folk based recordings on his own cassette-only label, [l188419]. Gaining a local cult following in Seattle, he was brought to the attention of Sub Pop Records by Sunny Day Real Estate singer [a=Jeremy Enigk]. His musical career is marked by periods of close collaboration with various musicians. - Until about "I break chairs" his work was closely linked to [a=Pedro The Lion] and [a=David Bazan]. - From then until "Caught In The Trees", [a=Eric Fischer] became his companion as a musician and producer, forming the band "Damien Jurado" with Fisher and [a=Jenna Conrad] on "Now That I'm In Your Shadow" and "Caught In The Trees". - The most significant change in sound came when he met the late [a=Richard Swift (2)], with whom he collaborated from "St. Bartlett" to "Visions Of Us On The Land." - From "The Horizon Just Laughed" to "Sometimes You Hurt The Ones You Hate", [a=Josh Gordon] has been his new musical partner. - Since ‘Motorcylce Madness’, his work has been closely associated with musician/producer [a=Sean Walcott] and a changing line-up of musicians, most notably [a=Lacey Brown (2)] and other musicians from Walcott's circle. In 2024, this resulted in a short-lived backing band called ‘[a=The Everett Assembly]’. - In the summer of 2024, he co-founded [l3853108], a mobile recording studio, with [a=Lacey Brown (2)]. Since then, he co-produces and arranges his songs with her. Other frequent contributors were the members of [a=Gathered In Song], [a=Rosie Thomas] and [a387255]. His full-length albums have been released on [l77343], [l35538], [l44370] and [l363414]. In 2021 he founded [l=Maraqopa Records]. From 2004 to 2007 he also co-ran [l77015].

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Release: Damien Jurado - Maraqopa
Year: 2012
Genres: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Folk Rock, Folk

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LYRICS

I stood above the clouds
To see you on the ground
Waving me down
Feel free to lose yourself
I do this all the time
Love is a blinding sun
We are songs to be sung

Treasures of worry here
Your voice was so sincere
I've known you my whole life

You told me once before
I should have known it then
Joy is letting it go
We are all mountains still asleep

I heard an echo say
We are all given away
Never to come back

And when we cross the line
We become defined
Broken sound, feeding back