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Jim Jones

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This song was originally recorded in 2016 as the first in a collection of songs about cults, co-written by myself and a rotating cast of collaborative influences; I the control and they the test for each auditory art work, an experiment in how one's work is shaped by personal connections as well as conceptual content.

After the tumultuous ending of that storied year, it was originally released on April Fool's Day 2017 by a label that has since dissolved.

In a recent interview for Ariel Wang's SubRosa podcast the legendary kool-aid test that accompanied its release came up, and the memory drove me to unearth it from the vaults and offer it up to the internet at large.

I hope you enjoy it right up to the ending,
at which point I hope you fear it.

Yours,
a

lyrics

Brother Jim was born a man of mystery
Mother Lynn claimed Jim would save the world someday
Little Jim saved souls of cats who'd found their end
By holding little funerals honoring what he'd took from them

Moving on from small town Indiana
College then the capital called his name
When his politics made the blacklist
He fled to church to be

For people who need people who might need Jim
Took a page from another age
Called for apostolic integration
In a time when schools never colored outside the lines

People came, some even followed
Hoping to find family beneath his wings of deliverance
But then, dead cats again
Did he would he do before what he did before again

The Rainbow family moved to California
A golden state there would unfold
A parlour trick meant to suck
The needy, open and/or brokenhearted in

Numbers grew as fast as spirits risen
Even politicians loved the people's temple
Jim's god opened what was once kept closed to him
One step closer to the right hand of the father
One more move to prove he'd rule them all

Moved the family down to guyana
Built a paradise in his name
Take it down for translation
Take it down for salvation
Take it down for translation
Take it down for salvation

Join. Us
Join. Us
Join. Us
Salvation
Join. Us
Translation
Join. Us
Join. Us
Join. Us

"No man may take my life from me. i lay my life down"
"Death is not a fearful thing, it is living that is cursed"

credits

from Jim Jones, released April 1, 2017
Music & Lyrics by Alison Niedbalski & Andrew Macy
Produced by Alison Niedbalski
Engineered by Carlos Arredondo
Mastered by Emery Barter

Alison Niedbalski: piano, rhodes, vox
Andrew Macy: bass, vox
Aoife Davis: vox, percussion
Andrea DeLaRosa: vox
Ariel Wang: violin
Bryn Lux: vox
Carlos Arredondo: drums
Jasper Leach: guitar, vox

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qualia Oakland, California

Qualia is the auditory outfit spearheaded by Alison Niedbalski.
Her devotion to music became apparent early on, spending hours spinning records, playing classical piano, & arguing with other children who "loved" the Beatles but had never heard of Harry Nilsson.
After an affair with academia, she moved West to teach Philosophy and found herself forming a Band.
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