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Rosa & The Red Thread

by Lunar Ash

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1.
vibrato at the tail like a rattlesnake embody the student, the teacher lessons of the wounded healer feel it out take it slow take time away to tend to the bones
2.
Mary Go 03:20
it's closing time, maybe I won't follow anymore this heart of mine, still has time to grow more than i've ever known mary go, won't you forget all you know there she goes, into the wise shadows
3.
Nodal Arc 03:04
you tore me up like a letter you wrote because it wasn't getting better and now you want to start over you don't like getting older you'll find a piece of you in time you'll write a nocturne to the sky and it'll teach you until you die that you're just a guest of life And we all fall Through the air Into the light from the dark Into the heart of the fire the more you think, the less you know looking for a way to lose control finding that oblivion is all you'll ever know
4.
Nested 04:27
Lyrics: living life chasing time owl at night come alive there I was, hanging in the trees there you were, throwing rocks at my feet in the night you pointed at the sky I wake up, next to your love I become, what I always was In me, I found the capability to transform In you, I found all the power to love you and myself I don’t mind, if you stay a while I don’t mind, if you stay a while
5.
Lady Hawk 05:05
lady hawk running through the streets of Saugatuck greeting everyone she meets like a new, New day in the dreaming tree where the elevations high at Macsaba Bay where Poisidon’s waters lie I knew you too we tried to see the forest for the trees i wanted to fly let the forest swallow me but i was afraid to fall i wanted it all to be predictably complete Samuel called a creature from the wild a ritual, a sacred bond for life they knew us too like something you've seen like, a distant familiar dream i wanted to fly let the forest swallow me but i was afraid to fall i wanted it all to be predictably complete i wanted to fly, let the forest dance with me
6.
you left from where you came before searching for something more but now you see what was lost so “viva la causa” (live for the cause) it wasn’t a american dream in the housing next to Apache Creek they all forgot what you made so “huelga today” (strike today) it’s not growing anymore in the summer heat we’re all burning up i’ve got tomato cheeks just like the ones you grew in the country the gardens roots are misled if they’re not living up to the dead honor everything that they made “si se puede” today (yes it is possible) return the earth to elder hands she’s crying at our feet we’re all burning up i’ve got tomato cheeks just like the ones you grew in the country
7.
Eyes To You 04:55
will we cast away these projected faces cause these traits aren’t our traits just wounded bait that we take when she gave me away, she gave me better days but you remind me of the stray and that redemption it always comes she’s not me, not you so I’ll leave my eyes to you so you might see my loyalty is afraid, of it’s unveiled waste the heavy games you play, we go numb, we go numb, we go numb years turn into days, you leave at a quickening pace we’re better off this way, now that you’re gone, that you’re gone, that you’re gone. she’s not me, not you so i’ll leave my eyes to you so you might see that i never wanted, to see you go that I still love you, from afar
8.
Rain Dance 03:39
i don't know what to say you've lost me along your way i just want to heal the parts that stayed so i mourned you, like a hurricane ooooooooooooooooo, oh ooooooooooooooooo, oh Can you hear the thunder, feel the rain? I stopped calling out your name i'll find my way through the western winds of change rise with the sun, dance with the rain ooooooooooooooooo, oh ooooooooooooooooo, oh Will you listen, if I bite my tongue? in the distance i found what I lost i lay down the bone I picked and feel the water on my skin
9.
Sober 03:50
I never thought that I would be singing a song with your harmony in october cause i'm always anxious when i’m sober sober from her call the waters of her love were nothing more than her own reflection no longer living in her projection i’m always anxious when i'm sober until i cut ties to the hands that held me under i’m headed to, the surface to breathe again that's what i told her i’m getting sober I never thought that you would see just now much you really mean to me mirrored over truth in the eyes of the beholder she lay at the river pretending to pray performing baptismal quivers while digging you a grave oh! to be saved how great it is to escape now i’m living for the lovers that she took in her wake and the cleansing of conscious that comes when day breaks it’ll come when day breaks
10.
Dreamweaver 05:10
dream-maker grant me an elixir i’ve been looking around for a while now for your medicine dream-weaver make me a believer i'd like to follow you follow you into to the underground where i’m upside down see what's coming up and face what i've been running from dream-healer make me a receiver i’d like to call on you fall on you into to the underground where i’m upside down see what’s coming up and face what i’ve been running from my mind find it’s eyes in the night time, the right care is realized
11.
together we hear the call from some familiar animals the birds and the bees it's written in everything that's surround us, won't you talk about it with me a little dance to the angles and a heightened to see oh! to be emergently tethered to a place we all call home, put out a catchy song balance out our chromosomes oooooooooo oooooooooo oooooooooo oooooooooo if only it were linear to undo damage that’s occurred to find the will to begin again turn to your neighbor or a friend and wash away the old decay to a new day well I would look at myself in the face and find the pieces i misplaced living out a story that someone else wrote for me

about

“Feel it out, take it slow, take time away, to tend to the bones.” Stewack’s lyrics serve as a fitting encapsulation of the ethos of Lunar Ash: to take one’s time, to move in communion with nature, to honor one’s truth, and to help others to recognize the interconnectedness of all things. What started out as a solo project of Stewack found its true form as a four-piece band, filled out by Mark Jaeschke on guitar, Katie Steel on bass/vocals, and Evan Loritsch on percussion, keys and a number of other instruments. The lush, atmospheric tracks are full of Stewack’s tender-hearted lyrics that blend Americana, rock, and folk, among other genres, into a frank, easy sound that they beautifully sum up as “indie whimsy.”

Stewack began writing the album in 2016, though most songs came to fruition during the pandemic. It was then that she returned to playing music in earnest—realizing the importance of seizing time while we have it. Jaeschke helped assemble what would become Lunar Ash, a band of longtime Chicago musicians and friends both old and new.

For Stewack, Rosa & The Red Thread is about following the breadcrumbs of intuition, reclaiming her power and stewarding that power in a shared sense of communal solidarity. The feeling of catharsis and liberatory potential reverberates throughout the album, but is perhaps best illustrated in “Waggle Till We’re Free,” which builds into a full-bodied anthem, everyone adding their voices to a rich collective tapestry of sound. It’s a call for healing the earth and working together to build a more just future, a call to work for change until all of us are free.

By Kerry Cardoza

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released October 4, 2023

Produced and performed by: (parts written by each musician)

Ash Stewack - Executive Producer / Songwriting / Lyrics / Vocals / Acoustic & Electric Guitar / Harmonies / Vocal Production / Piano on Lady Hawk / Synth on Waggle ‘Til We’re Free

Evan Loritsch - Producer / Drums / Acoustic Guitar / Banjo / Piano / Synth / Modular Synth / Strings / Saxophone / Gang Vocals

Mark Jaeschke - Co- Producer / Electric Guitar / Vocals / Auxillary Percussion / Gang Vocals

Katie Steel - Co-Producer / Bass / Harmonies / Synth on Nodal Arc

Engineer:
Brok Mende - Producer / Engineer / Studio / Mix / Master

Session Musicians: (parts written by each musician)

Nick Levine - Pedal steel (Eyes To You, Tomato Cheeks, Dreamweaver)
Clare Teeling - Flute (Nested)
Daniel Radovanovic - Accordion (Tomato Cheeks)
Ian Terry - Horns (Eyes To You, Waggle ‘Til We’re Free)

Chicago, Illinois
August 2022 - February 2023
At Friend of Friends Recording Studio

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