Nonconnah – Don’t Go Down To Lonesome Holler

*Don’t Go Down To Lonesome Holler*

A Mid-South Fin De Siècle, by Nonconnah

‘Cette image se ternira aussi sûrement que le temps lui-même’

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BOOK ONE ~ HARUSPEX AND HELLEBORE

Side A – Our Chemical Secrets, In Film And Frame



I – In Brighter Flames Array’d

1. A Preface, A Branch Against The Floor
2. Farewell To The Behavioral Sink! Farewell, Paralysis!
3. All Your Memphises Will Have To Fall Eventually And Burn Again
4. To Tremble And Collapse (Uchronia/Junt)
5. An Hour When False Twilights Drown
6. Nonconnah Vs. The Wolves That Stole Your Hands
7. Three Days Of National Mourning/Horrorglass
8. The Wastelands Themselves Become Abandoned
9. Fiery Horse, Don’t Come After Me! (For Virginia B.)
10. A House Built On Ugahxpa Territory
11. Clearing Debris For New Growth Potential
12. Time Disturbances And Distortions Result
13. O Sacred Harp Transmission, Sing!
14. *Rapturous Applause!*


II – Emptied Is The Glowing Barrel

1. There’s A Dust That Never Settles
2. What We Call Magick At A Distance
3. The Goose-Witch Of Jonesboro
4. Assemble The Hecatombs! Bury Your Rusted Scythes!
5. A Bad Reaction To Amnesia, Black Fields In Fever
6. Now Your Sorrow Landscapes Blur…
7. This Weeping, Wordless Haze (In Shadow)
8. …In bleeding halos of color feedback…
9. Those Aren’t Stars, They’re Planes Tearing Themselves In Half
10. Karamay: Friendship Hall
11. Go Outside And Look At The Moon
12. We Who Knew No Home Will Flicker And Disappear
13. Peripheral Rays And Flashes Of Activity



Side B – Faceless And Eyeless, And Without Hands



I – Are We Still Young? And What Remains?

1. Cut Out This Heart’s Most Prominent Features
2. For Bone Cassettes, For Heirloom Scars
3. A Foresworn Calendar Of Mice (Scar Of Oblivion)
4. Your Tumbledown Machines Of Former Glory
5. Drawing Lines Through Walls, Decayed Doors
6. To Conjure Presence From The Absence
7. Obscured ‘Neath Treading Clouds And Ruined Towers
8. The Eschatologist’s Lightning Lament
9. A Whalefall In The Waning (Delirious Bells)
10. They All Died In The Ship, But The Ship Follows The Route It Started From The Harbor
11. Through The Gilded Districts We Once Swayed

II – Cemeteries At Crossroads To Confuse Our Dead

1. Put The Bunnies In A Narrow Basket And Let Float To Sea
2. I’m Writing ‘All Is Lost’, It’s All I’ve Ever Written
3. I Think It’s The Insects’ Turn
4. There’s An Unseen Battle Against Us
5. Dismantling The Last THERAC-25
6. The Hidden Infernos, The Comet Tail Reality Loss
7. This Past That Never Stops Happening
8. A Whole Family Fed Into The Thresher
9. Alicia: ‘Little Margaret’

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BOOK TWO ~ TAROT OF THE WILD GOD PAN

Side A – A Sacrificial Deer Upon The Altar 



I – Goodnight, Goodbye, We Perish

1. In The Graves Behind The Supermarket
2. We Severed The Strings And Became As Stones
3. The Cat And The Gold In The Picture
4. It’s Someone You Know And Trust (Shadow Ebb)
5. Pathos, Trance, Dementia, Entropy, Extus, Zenith
6. This Place Is Nowhere, And It’s Forever
7. A Plaguefools’ Hubris, 2020-2021
8. Analog Codes, Tarnished Keys: Surrounding Demons
9. Celestial Blackout ’57 – Cities Circled In Red
10. Push Off From Shore ’Til You Can’t Reach It Anymore
11. The Oscillating Prairie And Its Surrender
12. Entire Forests Levitate (Cosmic Pessimism)
13. Greg: ‘Untitled’


II – They Left Behind Tapes To Explain Their Actions

1. Beyond Redemption By Light’s Embrace
2. Them God-Fearin’ Christian Horses
3. Defanged And Declawed, How Will We Continue?
4. An Engine For The Veiled Darkness
5. Our World As A Set Of Eerie Traces
6. Approaching Postmodern Levels Of Irony
7. Midnight Valero Gas Flares In Winter
8. For The Sonic Window Frequencies
9. The Broken Axle Memorial Parkway
10. They Have The Technology To Erase Memories
11. Behind A Rainbow, Awaiting Your Nearing Eclipse
12. Disfigured By Their Censor Bars And Masks
13. ‘Been Night A Long Time’ (An Amaranth)
14. It’s Not Safe Here, They’re Listening
15. Exponential Vs. Linear Decline
16. NeckSnapGhostController
17. A Haint Tethered To The Season’s Roar



Side B – Whoever Is Locked Up Here Loses His Life

I. The Backwards Room, Revisited

1. A September Setting Carved From Marble
2. Operation Indigo Skyfold/Tanker Terminators
3. The Reaping Will Be Late This Year
4. Dread Constellations And Their Atoms
5. *Chain-Wide Closeout Outreach Initiative*
6. In Fragmented Blue Convulsions, In A Wandering Void
7. A Subtraction Of Undocumented Angels
8. ‘…to weave a fadeless crown…’ (snow and wire tableaux)

II. Wearied And Cold You Furled Your Wings

1. Will Embers Speak Our Names In Elegy?
2. Their Skin Was Full Of Holes (Vivisected Signals)
3. A Gate Never Meant To Be Parted
4. Something Looms Across Desolate Railyard Horizons
5. Our Golgotha The Bayou’s Crumbling Edge
6. So Who Gives A Fuck About Speculative Fiction?
7. The Babysitter And The Man Upstairs
8. Eight Measures To Protect Birds Where You Live
9. The Leaves, The Ash…It Wasn’t Ours To Promise…
10. This Concludes Our Broadcast Day: Asleep In Front Of Silent Images In Widescreen…
11. Afterword: Liminal Spaces And Anti-Structure

Nonconnah is Magpie (Zachary Corsa) & Denny Wilkerson Corsa. 
For these recordings we were joined by ~

Alicia Best
Beatrice Corsa
Ben Crum
Ben Ricketts 

Blake Edward Conley
Caleb Wagner
Celeste Havoc
Charles Spearin
Cory Osborne
David Bell
Dino Spiluttini 

Doug Tuttle
E.M. Corsa

Emily Loren Moss
Eric Johnson

Gio Andollo

Greg Jamie

Hannah Cole
Henrietta Locklear

Jack Alberson

Jenn Taiga

Joel August Hatstat
Josh Shaw
Joshua Corsa
Julio Meraz 

Kevin Barker

Kip Uhlhorn

Laura Wagner
Linda Heck
Linden Pomeroy
Marshall Sanchez 

Mohammed Ashraf
Mormon Sin
Nate Wagner

Nathan DeYonker

Norman Westberg

Pall Jenkins
Paul Ringger

Randy Randall
Raymond Cummings
Ruth Corsa
Ryan Garbes
Ryan Patrick O’Doud

Sanford Parker
Sohrab Habibon

Stephen Chopek
Stuart McLamb

Thalia Zedek
Thomas Meluch
Todd Wesley Emmert

Wayne Todd


The instruments and sounds recorded include~

Electric guitar (e-bow, slide, screwdriver, mallets, etc.)
Digital electric guitar
Acoustic guitar
Classical guitar
Electric baritone guitar

Electric tenor guitar 

Electric 12-string guitar

Electric bass guitar

Lap steel 

Banjo
Mandolin
Toy dulcimer

Toy melodica

Ciftelia 
Synthesizers

Electric organ
Chord organ 

Spinet piano 

Field recordings & samples

Tape loops

Marxophone 

Noise Board

Yerbonitsa

Mbira 

Electric Isarn
Phin
Lyre

Erhu

Accordion

Bell kit

Hand percussion and shakers
Tom drums
Cymbals
Toy laser guns
Toy woodwinds and whistles 

Shortwave radios

Bowed tape recorder
Ryobi power drill

Kinyo computer speaker (feedback loop)
Music Box
Gourd banjo
Ocarina 

Harmonica 

Drum machines
Feedback

Broken roadside upright piano in Snow Camp, NC

Singing saw

Industrial machinery

Harpsichord
Violin
Cello
Voice 

Spoken Word 

Paint can 

Plastic jug 

Pots & Pans 

Bubble wrap 

Meows
Water wheel 

Sitar 

Rhodes piano
Pump organ
Ho-Ass Rotorvator 

Clarinet 
Chimes


Material assembled at Ghost Salon, Hickory Withe, Tennessee, and at various abandoned locations (grain silos, graveyards, overpasses, factories, schools, state parks…), 2017-2021.


Written, recorded, produced, mixed by Magpie & Denny Wilkerson Corsa.

Mastered by Kip Uhlhorn in Cooper-Young, Memphis, Tennessee.

Photography + visual and written material (c) 2017-2021 by Magpie, Denny Wilkerson Corsa, Joshua Corsa, and E.M. Corsa, with additional written material by Raymond Cummings.

Package design by John Newcomer w/ Magpie, Denny Wilkerson Corsa

Front cover painting by Todd Wesley Emmert

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