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Every purchase helps sustain the ongoing creation of songs, books, films, gatherings, and future offerings. These works are created slowly, in close relationship with the living world, and are shared with the hope that they find companions along the way.

ahlay (alexandra blakely) is a singer-songwriter, artist, and community organizer devoted to elderhood and ancestral healing. She is a descendant of Scandinavian and Ashkenazi folk, with roots in the Baltic archipelagos of Sweden, the Arctic coast of Norway's Vesterålen Islands, the borderlands of Central Europe, and the British Isles. Born on the West Coast as the first generation of her family after generations rooted in Brooklyn, she later spent eleven years living between the mountains of Chiapas, Tepoztlán, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico, where she was shaped by traditions of intergenerational kinship, mutual care, and the animate world. Her work explores the repair of relationship through song, storytelling, ritual, and deep relationship with the natural world.

Here you'll find lyric books, zines, choral scores, and artist-made sticker collections inspired by four musical worlds:

Anthems for an Apocalypse explores what it means to remain human in a time of unraveling, asking how we continue to love, grieve, and belong as familiar worlds change.

Spells from the Unknown gathers twenty-nine communal songs received between 2019 and 2021. Written to be sung together, they invite us into grief, joy, remembrance, and the mystery that lives just beyond what can be seen.

Spells from the Shadows follows the descent. These songs emerged through shadow work and the ongoing practice of meeting the parts of ourselves we are most tempted to call "not me."

WAILS: Songs for Grief is an invitation to sing grief back into community. Rooted in the understanding that grief is not something to overcome but something to be witnessed, these songs offer companions for sorrow, love, longing, and the slow work of remembering our belonging to one another.

May these offerings find good homes, well-worn hands, and many voices willing to sing together.