• Benefit compilation featuring contributions from well-known artists including Alan Sparhawk, Oneohtrix Point Never, Lambchop, Marisa Anderson, Lonnie Holley, Bonnie Prince Billy, Dirty Projectors, William Tyler, Tim Heidecker, and many others.
• All proceeds will benefit two Texas-based organisations, American Gateways and Casa Marianella, providing no-to-low-cost legal services, food, shelter, access to health care, and other essential services to immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.
“We hope that you are able to listen to Passages in a place that feels like home – in comfort and safety, with freedom to move. The artists wrote and recorded these songs in gratitude for and protection of that same place.
Home, as we know it, is at risk. Immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers expressing their right to safe passage are defending our access to that very right. Among the many organisations working in solidarity with them are two Texas-based non-profits named American Gateways and Casa Marianella. With over 70 years of collective experience, these organizations provide no-to-low cost legal services, food, shelter, access to health care, and other essential services. In addition to artists’ generous contributions, all labor—producing, mixing, mastering, design, and publicity—and manufacturing costs associated with the record were donated or fundraised separately to ensure all proceeds fund American Gateways and Casa Marianella’s critical work.
Passages is both an acknowledgement of work in progress and an invitation to do more. Our representatives need to see us. Our families need to hear from us. Our neighbours and local organisations on the front lines of this crisis are ready for us to join them.”
