Somewhere on the road in Minnesota, Will Westerman saw something that shouldn’t exist. “There was a break in a thunderstorm and sun shining through it,” he recalls with measured awe. “It seemed impossible.”
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There are numerous folkloric interpretations of the phenomenon of a sunshower around the world. From Asia to Africa, it’s been described as a “wedding” for a trickster animal — a fox, a monkey, a jackal.
Suddenly, Westerman had a name for the music he was working on. For A Jackal’s Wedding, Marta Salogni and Westerman holed up for five weeks at the Old Carpet Factory on the Greek island of Hydra.The album is a document of leaving and arriving, ongoing transformation, the liminal spaces between shadows and the lights that cast them, forever punctuated by tiny moments of stillness, awe, harmony.
