Mending

We Gathered at Wakerobin Hollow

Listening Party

After 18 months and 9 EPs, Mending is celebrating the completion of their drone folk speculative fiction song-cycle We Gathered at Wakerobin Hollow with a Listening Party at Comfort Station in Logan Square. On December 5, 2019 from 6pm-10pm, the four hour experimental narrative will be broadcast chronologically accompanied by abstract visuals. Mending's Kate Adams and Joshua Dumas will attend. The event is free.

We Gathered at Wakerobin Hollow is a four hour, 40 song speculative narrative song cycle, being released in nine chapters over 18 months. Combining folk songwriting with drone and noise, the songs trace the lives of a family and friends over a 40 year period in a series of connected vignettes. The broad narrative, told chronologically from multiple points-of-view, is set in motion by a catastrophic fire at an oil refinery in Odena, Alabama. From there we follow a handful of characters, as children become adults, spread out to Asheville, New York, and Bennington, get jobs, fall in and out of love, families grow, until coastal flooding and other impacts of climate change transform their day-to-day lives, eventually leading them all to Odena and Wakerobin Hollow.

The songs, arranged for piano, voice, synthesizers, noise and field-recording, explore female friendship, authoritarianism, familial relationships, and the ways climate change is, and will, affect our lives.

We Gathered at Wakerobin Hollow was released in nine chapters, on cassette and digital, with a new chapter every two months from August 2018-December 2019. As the cycle progresses through time, it sonically degrades, so the closing songs are marked by digital decay increasingly obscuring the narrative.