Everyday Balloons
such a beautiful album. the tape hasn't left the deck in my van. it helps me collect myself, find strength for the day, and connect with something I'd forgot.
Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Magpie Corsa & Denny Wilkerson Corsa, with contributions from - Blake Edward Conley, Zac Winterwood, Justin Sax, Jad Fair, Dylan Desmond, Chris Thompson, Alex Riggs, Brian Deck, Ben Massarella, Alex Greene, Cody Drasser, Tim Prudhomme, Angel Marcloid, Steven DeTaeye, Archie Moore, and Stuart McLamb.
Recorded (c) 2018-2022 @ Disaster Taxa (Memphis, TN), Ghost Salon (Hickory Withe, TN), Wall Doxey State Park (Holly Springs, MS) and various abandoned and natural locations.
Art design & photography by Magpie Corsa & Denny Wilkerson Corsa.
Writings by Magpie Corsa.
"...these bubbling minds create music that drifts from water-damaged campfire folk to space-age synths to Fennesz-worth electronic glitch meditations. Throughout, haunting voices speak in passages that echo both dystopian mind control and profound pastoral verse. But what sticks most with Unicorn Family is all the atmospheres and textures the Corsas conjure, making the whole thing feel like a sonic séance." - Bandcamp Daily, The Best Experimental Music On Bandcamp: April 2023 / The Best Experimental Music Of 2023
"Nonconnah’s pursuit of a defiantly arty, unusually ghostly way to redefine whatever US indie music is supposed to be in the 21st century didn’t let up with 2023’s Unicorn Family, where everyone from Jad Fair to Angel Marcloid aka Fire-Toolz appeared among the slew of guests. But the core remains Magpie and Denny Corsa, whose gift for songtitles like “A Small Wave Of Missing Pets In The Early 1980s” is matched by textures ranging from frazzled guitar to field recordings of testimonials to murky keyboard flows, suggesting the dying afterechoes of a lost past." - SHFL
"I have been loving Nonconnah’s wild, brilliant trip, Unicorn Family...make sure to pick a copy of the Unicorn Family tape before it’s too late." - Foxy Digitalis
"...expertly stitched together into beautifully layered and evocative soundscapes teeming with cool tape effects, thought-provoking samples, and killer shoegaze-inspired guitar work. In short, business as usual, but Nonconnah's business is consistently being one of the greatest drone projects on earth, so this is already a lock for one of my favorite albums of the year...I was also newly struck by how singularly Nonconnah succeed at making ambient/drone music feel deeply personal and sometimes even profound...in fact, it often feels like great Nonconnah songs exist solely to frame a fleeting glimpse of deep wisdom for maximum impact...this whole album is absolutely sublime and feels like the best kind of fever dream. I will be filing Unicorn Family right next to Nate Scheible's Fairfax on my "Albums That Are Sometimes So Profoundly Beautiful That I Feel Like I Imagined Them" shelf." - Brainwashed
"Nonconnah has been steadily releasing one shoegaze-damaged collage masterpiece after another lately and this is the latest one. One of my absolute favorite projects around. Characteristically transcendent." - Brainwashed (#24, Reader's Poll Best Albums Of 2023)
"They create music that is rich in depth and details, fluid and exploratory. Electronics burst into life across melodic fieldscapes, underlit by waves of emotion. Their latest, Unicorn Family, is an expansive reverie that taps into an otherworldly domain and channels a forgotten spirit back into the light. It may feel like too much at any given moment, but we’re rewarded once we make it through." - Foxy Digitalis
"On Unicorn Family, Corsa spearheads an experimental doomgaze odyssey that lights up the darkest places in the mind...there’s a freedom in Corsa’s creative endeavors that permeates an honesty often lost throughout the art world...deconstructs doom and shoegaze with something likened to a white-hot fever dream, with sharp ambient reflections and perceptive waves of sound that make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Unlike many doom acts out there, Nonconnah captures an emotional power that runs deep. It’s not obvious, but the more time spent in its company, and you realise that Unicorn Family operates in multifunctional ways. It’s wonderfully off-kilter and brutally hypnotic. All told, it’s just a downright lovely record." - Sun 13
"The best collage music for me has the explicit presence of an editorial voice, and hand, but not in broadcasting the cleverness or sophistication of its owner, rather in spectrally reifying a version of one’s own reality, a past presently reimagined or an altogether imagined past. If you have those tools, you have the right, and you will get it right. Nonconnah have been getting it right for years. We’re just catching up." Shallow Rewards
"This is a remarkable curio cabinet littered with aural treasures. It's brilliantly original, occasionally disturbing, at times meditative and brimming with frayed ambience. I'm back up for air to declare this as one of the year's standouts." - The Clutch And The Flywheel
"The duo Nonconnah, which emerged from the Lost Trail project, has often been a topic on these pages. One may find rudiments of drone, post rock and shoegaze in Nonconnah's music, but on numerous releases Zachary and Denny Corsa ultimately played their very own, genre-busting and hardly categorizable, noisy, enraptured music...great release." - African Paper
Memphis dronegaze collective. Magpie Corsa (mostly guitars) + Denny Wilkerson Corsa (mostly field recordings) + various accomplices abroad. Mid-fi at best + DIY as fuck forever. Don't ask us to turn down.
B.E. Conley, armed with trusty Tele and lap steel, carves weary fever dreams and dust-demon mirages from raw materials and surplus entropy. The world is and isn't beautiful. This is our small victory. Nonconnah
Half-fucked drone incantations and bleeding-limb fuzz rot. Scarred pagan struggle against or alongside darkness. This is the future we'll inherit. It's a cathartic one. The resurrection falls upon us. Nonconnah
Casting out spirits in the name of science. Learning lab dust on cassette, Erlenmeyer flasks and mysterious sunshine. Something watches from beyond the frame. The world stills. Lovely dread seeps in. Nonconnah
