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about

Jason Calhoun is a musician, artist, and human living and working in Philadelphia. In addition to being a member of post-folk outfit Hour, Jason has issued a steady drip of patient, textured ambient releases over the years: first as Paper Armies, then Naps, and now under his own given name.

"Monarch" eschews the clean tones of earlier releases, opting instead to subsume melancholy synth drones under a shifting sea of static and distorted field recordings. Holding beauty and grittiness in constant tension, these compositions find stillness and contemplation in sensory overload.

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$1 per tape/CD benefits the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

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released November 8, 2025

Written and recorded in Philadelphia, PA by Jason Calhoun
Mastered at Laminal Audio by A F Jones
Photography by Ian Sherlock Molloy
Special Thanks to Ava Mirzadegan

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