Bliss Is Ordinary

Jessi & Yam welcome their listeners into an intimate conversation about Real Love, their lasting affinity for voicemails, and the song-centered origins of their 7 year relationship. A young listener submits a song about how good it feels to be alive. Yam talks about how making music and making love are the same thing. Yam & Jessi share a song about being reminded to let go called Your Love Reminds Me. Major crush energy abo...

Jessi & Yam share a special song from one one of their youngest listeners, and the two of them have a conversation with community grief tender Alexandra 'Ahlay' Blakely about whales, dreams, ancestors, and her burgeoning communal healing project, 'WAILS : Songs for Grief'. Ahlay shares several songs, including one from her upcoming album entitled  ‘Apprentice’.

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Yam shares a story about catching a song in the bathroom of a Rite Aid. Jessi & Yam wax poetic about forbidden love, undercover artists, odd jobs, and the virtues of spontaneity in the everyday world. Yam teaches Jessi a song inspired by one of their listeners (a poet named M) called Come Sing With Me, and the two of them sing it with the help of their housemates.

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Jessi & Yam share a special message from their listeners, and the two of them have a conversation with legendary ambient/new-age artist Laraaji & his partner Arji Oceananda about the medicinal qualities of laughter, the portable and lightweight aspects of the human voice, why singing in the grocery store might be a good idea, and what it means (and sounds like) to live a higher-vibrational life.  Laraaji covers the Beatles,...

Yam & Jessi announce that Bliss Is Ordinary now has a Patreon page, and the two of them have a conversation with their bandmate Yin (a self-described 'vessel of song') about being a good friend to yourself, the self-soothing aspects of vocal exploration, and why everyone should consider losing their minds for a little bit. Yin shares several songs, including one about miracles that happen every day.

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Jessi & Yam travel to Port Townsend, WA to have a conversation with song leader Laurence Cole about being an elder, grief-tender, and community crooner. Laurence shares wisdom and insight about finding belonging, transforming trauma, and how to refresh yourself with grief. Laurence sings many songs with Yam & Jessi, including one about the afterlife being potentially groovy.

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Yam announces that Jessi is the new co-host of Bliss Is Ordinary, and the two of them have a conversation with songcatcher Meg Yates about Julie Andrews, the importance of singing while doing the dishes, the virtues of megalithic structures, and what it takes to be an everyday 'Art Monk'. Meg shares a song with Jessi & Yam about seeds, fruit and new beginnings.

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Yam launches the first episode of Bliss Is Ordinary and has a conversation with songcatcher Jessi Rado about her earliest memories of singing, the growing phenomenon of 'songcatching', and how singing together can benefit community health. Jessi teaches Yam a song about finding peace inside even when things aren't going well.

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