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It’s been two wonderful weeks since the release of PLANT MATERIAL, so I wanted to talk a little bit about the artwork.

Back in 2021, the photographer and visual artist @sadiewechsler and I did the landscape program together at Portland Community College and became friends. We each bring learnings from our time in that program into our respective art forms, particularly around changing ecosystems and how plants and organisms adapt and survive despite human-caused changes to it. When I realized the connective theme of the songs for Plant Material, I wanted the artwork for the album to reflect those themes. Sadie’s photographs felt like a perfect fit and I’m honored that she was excited about the collaboration too.

Please dive deeper into her work at sadiewechsler.com.

The following slides show the original artwork and captions for each piece.

Bull Thistle with Bee, 2025

Bull Thistle, or Cirsium vulgare, is native to Eurasia but is now growing across the continent. It was likely introduced many times via foreign seeds and grains. This plant is classified as a noxious weed here in Oregon, but still the flowers provide nectar and pollen for bees, and other parts can be eaten or used for medicinal purposes.

- Sadie Wechsler

Metasequoia glyptostroboides, 2024

Dawn redwood, or Metasequoia glyptostroboides, is the state fossil, evidence of a vastly different ecosystem. This tree looks like a fir or pine, with needles during the summer, but turns red-brown in fall and loses the needles for the winter months. While botanists thought that the tree was extinct, it was found growing in the 1940s in small patches in central China. Since it has been grown in arboreta and is now widely planted across Oregon.

- Sadie Wechsler by @sand_duney

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🌾 Plant Material is here!! You can find this beautiful anywhere ya listen to music.

Been a real treat to work with @sand_duney on this gem, and to collab with two of our favorite labels @budtapes and @orindalrecords ❣️

Records and tapes are available !

“The songs on Plant Material explore a deepening of selfhood, love, and understanding the natural world.”

📸✍️ @julesohman by @sand_duney

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a month ago

NEW VIDEO for MY PALOMA, second single from CROW HOLLOW, by JOHN FRENTRESS and JULIE PERINI aka harry&harry productions by @sand_duney

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🫠🌱🥯 Today you can listen to Plant Material - the fresh LP from @sand_duney in its entirety one day early thanks to @mindiesview ! (There’s a link in our link place to listen!)

🌾 These 10 tracks are lush and complex, jangly and meditative, and transport the listener to a calm place somewhere in a field of tall grass.

The record comes out everywhere tomorrow, and if you ordered a pre-order from the bagel HQ you should be seeing that lovely record at your door asap! 💖

📸 @julesohman by @sand_duney

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Plant Material arrives everywhere next Friday Sept 4th!!!

Jess of @sand_duney designed these beautiful jackets etc and we teamed up with Jess and @budtapes to make these glorious grey eco-mix splattered wax beauties.

Cassette tapes also! From @orindalrecords

pre-orders are live :)

Catch the Sand Duney band support the release at one of their release shows too if you’re in the PNW:

- Seattle 9/3 @ Goosers w @eli_guitar_and_stuff @ancientforestband

- Langley, WA 9/4 @ taproom at bay view corner w Eli Moore and @129_600

- Portland 9/5 @ turn turn turn w @cynthianelsonband & dragging an ox through water by @sand_duney

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Band Duney is about to breeze through the PNW (*with a minor venue update on Whidbey) Can’t wait to play this record for everyone! “Plant Material” is out 9/4 via @anything_bagel @budtapes @orindalrecords 🌾 by @sand_duney

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Welcome Rhody, friend to all 🤍 by @sand_duney

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🌷Today you can hear and watch a music video for “Jacaranda” the second single from the upcoming Sand Duney record! This one is a meditative, summer track about blossoms, wood, and repetitive tasks :) Find it wherever you listen to things, and watch full vid on YouTube

🌿Plant Material releases in full September 4th on @orindalrecords @budtapes @anything_bagel !

🪸Pre-orders are up for cassette tapes and records.

🌳Jess writes: “I started working on the song “Jacaranda” years ago, when I was briefly living in LA and helping an artist friend in her woodshop once a week. Many of her friends would gift her pieces of interesting scrap wood as an expression of love, and one of my tasks was to help organize the wood by type and by which friend gifted it. I was so captivated by the sound of the name “Jacaranda” and its undeniable sense of place. It evoked the feeling of flying into LA in the springtime and seeing the purple blooms below. I also love repetitive work tasks and the meditative lull—how your mind wanders and returns to the task, then wanders and returns again.”

🪵Jess made the video about repetitive tasks and working on one’s craft. She writes: “I wanted to feature my new live band because they each have creative practices parallel to music. And I love them and haven’t had a chance to adequately shout them out yet :) I liked the repetition of the seed processing and woodworking juxtaposed with the fluidity of the ceramics and the skating.” @sand_duney @jojokoho @kelly_schirmann @jayfiske_ @omo________ @seamusland

🪷The video was filmed by Jess Jones and Jules Ohman, and edited by Jess. @julesohman by @sand_duney

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🌹👀 ‘‘Saw You In The Roses’ has been out for one week! thanks for listening and viewing 😊

🌷here you can watch the full video made by Dawn Riddle and full of plants and buds

🌾 the full record ‘Plant Material’ comes out on Sept 4th! Pre-orders of tapes and records now available via @orindalrecords @budtapes @anything_bagel by @sand_duney

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3 months ago

🌺We are thrilled to announce Plant Material - the first full-length album from Sand Duney @sand_duney , the solo project of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jess Jones (Dear Nora, Jessica Dennison + Jones, Hot Gum, Cynthia Nelson Band)

🌷Out September 4th on Anything Bagel, Bud Tapes, and Orindal Records ! @anything_bagel @budtapes @orindalrecords

🌹Today you can stream the first single “Saw You In The Roses” / watch a music video / read more about it on Gold Flake Paint! @gold_flake_paint Video by Dawn Riddle

🪷Pre-orders are up as well for cassette tapes and records :)

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🌾 Plant Material explores a deepening of selfhood, love, and understanding the natural world. The sonic landscape of Plant Material is as lush and complex as the ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest that Jones writes about. She also writes about the practice of care and love in both creative practice and long-term partnership. Both require dedication and presence. So does finding hope and a daily rhythm in a world that’s changing in massive and indecipherable ways. Jones played every instrument on the record, including pedal steel, acoustic and electric guitar, bass, organ, drums and vocals. She recorded and mixed the record herself at home in Portland, OR and Missoula, MT. The result is a record that moves and sounds like water through a deep canyon, every layer guiding us somewhere new. by @sand_duney

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:: upcoming shows :: full band duney ::

7/17 - Woodtick Fest, Darby, MT
8/13 - Daisy Chain Fest, Missoula, MT
9/3 - Seattle, WA
9/4 - Langley, WA
9/5 - Portland, OR (Record Release!)
9/6 - Olympia, WA

Stay tuned for more details 🛼 by @sand_duney

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4 months ago

Get to know @sand_duney! At Woodtick July 17-18⛰️🕶️

Tickets on sale through link in bio!

#woodtick2026 #bitterrootvalley #montanamusicfestival taken in Darby, Montana by @sand_duney

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