Jetzt hören: Jason Molina, Will Oldham und Alasdair Roberts besingen „September 11th, 2001“
Über 13 Jahre nach 9/11 und zwei Jahre nach Jason Molinas Tod ist ein neuer Song von ihm aufgetaucht, den er am 11. September 2001 aufgenommen haben soll.
Von Jason Molina ist ein weiterer, bisher unveröffentlichter Song aufgetaucht. Nachdem sein Label Secretly Canadian posthum immer wieder Aufnahmen des 2013 verstorbenen Songwriters herausbrachte, lassen sie nun einen Molina-Song namens „September 11th, 2001“ hören.
Über „September 11th, 2001“ sagt das Label, Molina haben diesen Song an eben jenem 11. September 2001 aufgenommen und damit als unmittelbare Reaktion auf die Terroranschläge in den USA. Der Song dauert über elf Minuten und steigert seine Dramaturgie schleichend. Neben Molina selbst sind „Bonnie ‚Prince‘ Billy“ Will Oldham sowie Alasdair Roberts darin zu hören.
Alasdair Roberts erinnert sich wie folgt an die damaligen Aufnahmen:
„The late Jason Molina and I had met a few times in England (when Jason was studying for a period in London) and in Scotland (Glasgow, where I lived then as now), after being introduced to one another by Will Oldham in late 1995. The recording session by Jason, Will, Will’s brother Paul and me was Jason’s idea originally. The prospect of working together with these musicians whose work I admired, and who were also cool people, was very exciting; so that’s how I found myself in Paul’s Kentucky farmhouse that historic weekend in 2001.
Of course, what made that weekend historic was certainly not this humble meeting of musical minds; rather, it was the fact that it coincided with the unanticipated and awful events of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks and the collapse of the World Trade Center. I am convinced that my memory of that period has been heightened by this coincidence; I have a strong recollection of Jason, Will, Paul and me recording on the evening of 10th September. I remember the warm southern evening sunshine (a particular delight for one accustomed to Scottish autumn weather), streaming through the window and infusing everything in the room with a kind of preternatural glow, as we recorded a version of Owen Hand’s wonderful song ‘My Donal.’ Will was playing a Nord synth and singing, Paul was on drums, Jason played bass guitar and I was playing Paul’s bright blue Telecaster. I remember walking by the barns that evening and seeing row upon row of tobacco drying, shining golden and lovely in the twilight. But none of us was to know that that would be, in some sense, the last twilight of an old world.
Jason woke me at about 10am the following morning with the words: ‘Ali, you should come downstairs. Something really bad is happening.’ My initial thought was that perhaps someone in the household had been injured or had fallen seriously ill. And so I went downstairs to confront the new global reality. Most of the rest of the day was spent watching the television news in numbed disbelief; in the evening we dined and talked together with some other members of the Oldham family. And then it seemed that the only thing to do was to carry on as normal – to pour ourselves a large Highland Park each and to make rock and roll, like we were born to do. So that’s how this piece of music came about – it was a spontaneous response from Jason’s soul to the unimaginably terrible events of that day, and it was one in which he invited Will (on piano), Paul (on Nord synth), me (on bowed mountain dulcimer) and every listener to cast their own offering.“
Jason Molina machte sich vor allem als Kopf hinter der Indieband Songs: Ohia einen Namen. Der Musiker starb am 16. März 2013 im Alter von 39 Jahren an den Folgen seines Alkoholkonsums.
