Jokes About Rain

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1.	Tess 10:40	buy track
2.	Hippie Lawyer 02:57	buy track
3.	Joe's Dream 03:04	buy track
4.	Deal With It 03:33	buy track
5.	Merauder 02:51	buy track
6.	El Sueno de la Jose Caballero 02:01	buy track
7.	The Comedian 03:29	buy track
8.	Thrasher 05:00	buy track

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Bay Area psychic panhandler Anthony Boruch-Comstock Orion’s music loiters in a limbo between vision and vagrancy, open roads and empty pockets. Across seven storied years the Swanox sound has distilled but not domesticated, winding through junky back streets of hitchhiker Americana, surrealist storytelling, dada piano, cosmic Casiotone, flophouse folk, and amnesiac ambience.

Jokes About Rain reworks a selection of songs from his limited 2013 cassette on Bezoar Formations alongside an array of new and unreleased tracks for a fresh collage of coastal crossroads, sunken eyes, and West Coast wanderlust. Recorded from 2010 to 2015 in various apartments, bedrooms, and bunkers across San Francisco (with the exception of one Neil Young cover tracked in in Los Angeles), the album feels loose, lost, and liminal, a rambler’s lament for lives in the rearview. What falls but never gets hurt?

Dedicated to “every guitar player I’ve played with, learned from, or been inspired by.”

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released December 1, 2017

Additional instrumentation and mixing by Sam Rezendes.
Additional vocals on "Deal With It" by Kristina Esfandiari & Inna Showalter; additional bass by Nik Nyby.
Mastered by Paul Oldham.
Cover artwork by Sean Hewitt and AOBC.

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Rhodyrunner

Apr 2024
Jokes About Rain

Dec 2017
Duskrunner

Dec 2014
Dawnrunner

Apr 2011

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