VARIOUS – Passages: Artists in Solidarity with Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum Seekers – LP – Vinyl [JAN 23]

LP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl.

Benefit compilation featuring contributions from well-known artists including Alan Sparhawk, Oneohtrix Point Never, Lambchop, Marisa Anderson, Lonnie Holley, Bonnie Prince Billy, Dirty Projectors, William Tyler, Tim Heidecker, and many others.

All proceeds will benefit two Texas-based organisations, American Gateways and Casa Marianella, providing no-to-low-cost legal services, food, shelter, access to health care, and other essential services to immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.

“We hope that you are able to listen to Passages in a place that feels like home in comfort and safety, with freedom to move. The artists wrote and recorded these songs in gratitude for and protection of that same place.

Home, as we know it, is at risk. Immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers expressing their right to safe passage are defending our access to that very right. Among the many organisations working in solidarity with them are two Texas-based non-profits named American Gateways and Casa Marianella. With over 70 years of collective experience, these organizations provide no-to-low cost legal services, food, shelter, access to health care, and other essential services. In addition to artists’ generous contributions, all laborproducing, mixing, mastering, design, and publicityand manufacturing costs associated with the record were donated or fundraised separately to ensure all proceeds fund American Gateways and Casa Marianellas critical work.

Passages is both an acknowledgement of work in progress and an invitation to do more. Our representatives need to see us. Our families need to hear from us. Our neighbours and local organisations on the front lines of this crisis are ready for us to join them.”

Tracklist:

01. Alan Sparhawk – No More Darkness
02. St. Panther – Everybody Is
03. Oneohtrix Point Never – Country
04. Benjamin Booker – A Place for Us
05. Lambchop – Afterburner
06. Quin Kirchner (feat. Tekle Mezghebe) – Home
07. Marisa Anderson – No Place to Rest My Head
08. Y La Bamba – Wrong Crowd
09. Lonnie Holley – A Border Is Just a Space…
10. Bonnie Prince Billy – The Autumn Wind (no. 71)
11. Erik Hall – Parallels
12. Dirty Projectors – One Hundred-Twenty Dollar Song
13. William Tyler – 13 Lakes
14. Aisha Burns – All That I Know
15. Anjou (feat. I. Nova) – Un Trayecto Largo
16. Heather Woods Broderick – White Sage
17. Tim Heidecker – Alone Until I’m Home