The Phoenix-based musician releases two singles ahead of his new album out in March.
Musician, writer, and podcaster Jason P. Woodbury returns with his latest record, Jason P. Woodbury & The Night Bird Singing Quartet, on March 13th on his Always Happening Records label. A record about aliens, family, God, worry and relief, water and the desert, he’s shared two singles ahead of the album’s release: “When I Get Lonesome (Again)” a power-pop driven tune which Woodbury says “taps into a very special Gin Blossoms-meets-Elvis Costello-meets-Fleetwood Mac zone that I can’t get enough of,” and “Get To Meet Them,” a meditative tune that finds him revisiting childhood drives through a desert Native American reservation in Arizona, where his religious upbringing and fear of damnation were confronted by his fascination with extraterrestrials and restless, science-fiction infused imagination.
An editor for Los Angeles online music magazine Aquarium Drunkard, he also hosts the site’s lauded Transmissions interview podcast. Living and writing in the Sonoran Desert, Woodbury’s aim is to explore the uncanny ways music expands, deepens, and alters consciousness. Of the new record, he says “There are moments on this album where I’m referencing my earliest memories, or Phoenix UFO lore, or contemplative spirituality, but there are also parts where I’m just sort of letting the air out of my own self-inflated ego balloons.” The result is an album that’s as intimate in focus as it is cosmic. “They are all praise songs of sorts,” he adds, citing Sufi mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan’s quote, “Some day music will be the means of expressing universal religion,” as a creative credo.”
