From Heligator Records "Salt Lake City based guitar-wrangler, Braeyden Jae, has graciously donated this slow-build track to the goodship Heligator. "Switches" looms like a storm cloud in its third trimester, pregnant with expectation and static. When the storm comes it doesn't arrive with monsoon force, but rather, that cooling, giving rain that cuts the humidity in half and waters your garden for you. It breaks like that.
Beautiful washes of soft distortion worn smooth like river rocks.
Download the record here
As for work on the ground in Swaziland. Volunteer Head Librarian Jean Bosco and the Refugee Camp Allstars have been hard at work renovating and expanding the library to encompass another room next to it to make way for more book donations and a classroom to hold English/French language lessons to students living in the camp. They also partnered with a local school to give the library a pretty rad new paint job. This is the visible manifestation of your donations. Keep 'em coming! Your donations go to supplies for the library, keeping the lights on and allowing the refugee volunteers to live/eat. Seriously, there is literally no other income these guys get. This is their 9-5. Their passion for the education and betterment of the refugees in the camp comes through in every whats app message we exchange. Here is what he has to say to donors:
"Dear Donors -
A refugee camp is sometimes a place where people, young or old, spend time doing nothing than turning negative thoughts in their brains, since they are unable to change their life or get any solution to their worries. But the library came as a place where to get friends, a kind of relief to those who can read.
We thank u and all donors for the good gift. It is like an oasis. A fountain in a plain desert for us. Thanks for keeping us in ur heart, may God bless your hands forever.
- Jean Bosco "
Here are the pics:
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