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spill through the clouds like a river of light

the thunder might save us

by Josh Varnedore

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  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of the thunder might save us. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.

    One track will be released each month from April until the final track / album on August 23, 2024.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases August 23, 2024

      $5 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Only 44 available, handmade by Josh Varnedore and numbered 1/88 - 44/88. Includes: (1) hand-stamped plastic sleeve with album title in black; (2) one of a kind cyanotype insert hand-printed by Josh Varnedore using sunshine and found Earth objects associated with the album and its creation; (3) photographic print insert of the alternate album cover (red cover with album name in white), also hand-stamped; (4) one of a kind "Starflower" original artwork on the inside left panel, created by Josh Varnedore using his quartz block printing technique and using crystals he unearthed from the Grace prospect in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas - each "Starflower" is a unique piece of original artwork; (5) hand-stamped white CD, handwritten album name / artist name on the spine.

    Includes digital pre-order of the thunder might save us. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases August 23, 2024
    item ships out on or around August 20, 2024
    edition of 44 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Only 44 available, handmade by Josh Varnedore and numbered 45/88 - 88/88. Includes: (1) original red cover with The Thunder Might Save Us in white; (2) a hand-stamped photographic print insert of the alternate album cover (blue and red cover with album title); (3) one of a kind "Starflower" original artwork on the inside left panel, created by Josh Varnedore using his quartz block printing technique and using crystals he unearthed from the Grace prospect in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas - each "Starflower" is a unique piece of original artwork; (4) hand-stamped white CD, handwritten album name / artist name on the spine.

    Includes digital pre-order of the thunder might save us. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases August 23, 2024
    item ships out on or around August 20, 2024
    edition of 44 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $20 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited to 88 - 8 different versions and 11 of each. Please refer to the first photo to see the different designs available. ***Note: this is obviously not a CD product and the CD is a separate item, but Bandcamp requires that it's classified as a "music" product to include a digital download.*** Also, a digital download code for the full album "The Thunder Might Save Us" will be included with each Photo Box. Includes: (1) a translucent "film print" background image of Josh Varnedore's original photography that illuminates when held to the light; (2) hand-stamped / hand-numbered cardstock on the bottom of the photo box; (3) a one of a kind quartz crystal that Josh personally unearthed from the Grace Prospect in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas - this was a quartz prospect that Josh's grandmother Grace revealed to him in a dream. Josh used the quartz from the Grace Prospect as a guitar slide on the album and also used quartz from this prospect for the "Starflower" designs, all of the album blockprint designs ("Ascending Dog") and on the original cyanotypes. Every quartz crystal from this prospect is one of a kind - there is no exact duplicate of these natural crystals. Each photo box will have a different crystal from the Grace Prospect varying in size and shape (your particular crystal will be a result of divine happenstance). Some Photo Boxes have multiple smaller crystals.

    Dimensions / Weight: each Photo Box is approximately 2.25 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches / 1 ounce (6 ounces as packaged / shipped).

    Includes digital pre-order of the thunder might save us. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.     ... more
    digital album releases August 23, 2024
    item ships out on or around August 20, 2024
    edition of 88 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $30 USD or more 

     

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Delving into cavernous darkness and emerging with glimmering light, Josh Varnedore’s ambient soundscapes reverberate with an ancient, earthen warmth. Reverent and immersed in the natural world, the Ohio-based multimedia artist finds inspiration and more in the hills of Ohio and Arkansas, where he prospects for crystals and natural objects of wood, and bone to incorporate into his music and art. As he works with these elemental and organic materials–Varnedore bows his guitar using a rosined stone core sample from the Union Carbide mine in Arkansas that he estimates to be over one hundred million years old–Varnedore extracts the sounds of rock, soil and once-living matter, giving voice to the story of our slow burning journey with the earth.

Central to Varnedore’s art is the relationship between enduring objects and ephemeral life, a subject he explores through improvised works of fingerpicked and bowed guitar, field recordings, and a diverse array of sounds created with a vintage sampler. In a collaborative creation with nature, Arkansan quartz will serve as a guitar slide, and a deer jaw found in the woods near his home is another earthen bow that he uses to produce the music he molds like clay. A palpable sense of place imbues Varnedore’s music, which he records in an old schoolhouse, as his songs are touched by the history of rural Ohio and the lives of those who have passed through the 19th century schoolhouse’s doors.

As he traverses varied sonic terrain, Varnedore taps into voids to establish an immense gravity while threading delicate, weightless patterns from the natural world into shifting webs of harmonized melodies. The resulting songs are both glacial and luminous, golden-hued hums of an unspoken language that pulse and echo and decay and renew. His forthcoming debut project for the renowned Nashville-based ambient record label Hammock Music will be released starting in April of 2024. -Wyatt Marshall

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releases August 23, 2024

written/recorded/mixed/performed and produced by Josh Varnedore
mastered by Taylor Deupree/12k

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Multimedia artist Josh Varnedore finds inspiration in the hills of Ohio and Arkansas, where he prospects for crystals and natural objects of wood and bone to incorporate into his music and art. In a collaborative creation with nature - Arkansas crystals will serve as a guitar slide, and a deer jaw is another earthen bow - his ambient soundscapes reverberate with an ancient, earthen warmth. ... more

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