This album will be released Feb. 17, 2016. 

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-32
www.paradiseofbachelors.com/mind-over-mirrors

The new album by the ever-evolving project of Jaime Fennelly is his most ambitious and spellbinding set of roiling, meditative recordings to date, and the first to supplement his foundational arsenal of Indian pedal harmonium, analog synthesizers, and incantatory voices with a full ensemble, including Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day), Jim Becker (Califone), Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux), and Jon Mueller (Death Blues). Undying Color braids folk and formal, praise and play, within its heady swells and troughs, invoking American vernacular musical traditions and pulsating avant-garde electronics alike. With prayerful patience and ceremonial gravity, it conjures and celebrates the cyclical rhythms of nature: tidal surges, human breathing, cicadas in the wilderness gloaming. W/color inner sleeve, DL card.

RIYL: Brian Eno, Henry Flynt, Moondog, Popul Vuh, Sun Ra, Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, Arthur Russell, Laurie Spiegel.

“Devotional and alarming ... an out-of-body experience.” – NPR 
“Massive, hypnotic, endless … shoots straight for the stratosphere.” – Pitchfork

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Mind Over Mirrors – Undying Color (2017, PoB-32) [Premieres]

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Jennifer Castle
Camelot
PoB-078
LP/CD/Digital
November 1, 2024

Camelot, Jennifer Castle’s extraordinary, moving chronicle of the artist in early middle age, charts a realer place than the legendary Camelot of the British Early Middle Ages, but it too is a space more psychic than physical. In Castle’s Camelot, the fantastic interpenetrates the mundane, and the Grail, if there is one, distills everyday experience into art and art into faith, subliming terrestrial concerns into sublime celestial prayers to Mother Nature, and to the unfolding process of perfecting imperfection in one’s own nature: “Back in Camelot / I really learned a lot / circles in the crops and / sky-high geometry …” (Includes poster with lyrics.)

“Castle’s songs are vibrant and bountiful landscapes, and even in their quietest, darkest moments, they thrum and glow. [She] has a stunning capacity for crafting lines rich with nuance, humor and devastating beauty.” – CBC

“Castle channels the lunar radiance of Emmylou Harris and the heartfelt barroom blues of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, quietly gleaming with a rustic beauty and a deep, patient understanding of the mystic.” – Aquarium Drunkard

Camelot

Earthsong

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Jennifer Castle: Earthsong

ALBUM ABSTRACT

The second solo record by Mike Polizze of Philadelphia psych-squallers Purling Hiss and Birds of Maya, a rainier and more pensive affair than its predecessor—despite its playful humor and plentiful hooks—affirms his status as a consummate (and now not-so-secret) craftsman of instantly memorable bucolic odes of languid beauty, deepening his fingerstyle acoustic guitar magic and finally manifesting the title of the classic Hiss anthem “Run from the City.”

He’s uncovered a rich seam of songwriting, classic-sounding yet modern, unquestionably nostalgic in temperament but undeniably vital ... Even when he’s at his most melancholy and hangdog, the songs themselves gleam like diamonds. – Uncut

The sound of the record approaches bliss: the sonic equivalent of a beer on the beach at sunset. It flows like a well-conceived song cycle and moves gracefully from one thought to the next. – Pitchfork

Exquisitely beautiful … It has the wondrous, enveloping quality of a daydream. – American Songwriter

I love this music so much ... So many of these songs give me chills. – Kurt Vile

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Around Sound

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Mike Polizze: Is There Anybody Out There?

Mike Polizze: Everybody I Know

Mike Polizze: Around Sound

Improvs 1

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Mind Over Mirrors 
Undying Color
LP/CD/Digital 
PoB-32
Worldwide release date: 2/15/17

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-32
www.paradiseofbachelors.com/mind-over-mirrors

The new album by the ever-evolving project of Jaime Fennelly is his most ambitious and spellbinding set of roiling, meditative recordings to date, and the first to supplement his foundational arsenal of Indian pedal harmonium, analog synthesizers, and incantatory voices with a full ensemble, including Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day), Jim Becker (Califone), Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux), and Jon Mueller (Death Blues). Undying Color braids folk and formal, praise and play, within its heady swells and troughs, invoking American vernacular musical traditions and pulsating avant-garde electronics alike. With prayerful patience and ceremonial gravity, it conjures and celebrates the cyclical rhythms of nature: tidal surges, human breathing, cicadas in the wilderness gloaming. W/color inner sleeve, DL card.

RIYL: Brian Eno, Henry Flynt, Moondog, Popul Vuh, Sun Ra, Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, Arthur Russell, Laurie Spiegel.

“Devotional and alarming ... an out-of-body experience.” – NPR 
“Massive, hypnotic, endless … shoots straight for the stratosphere.” – Pitchfork

Undying Color

Mind Over Mirrors – Undying Color: "To the Edges" (2017, PoB-32)

Mind Over Mirrors - Undying Color: "Splintering" (2017, PoB-32)

Mind Over Mirrors - Undying Color: "Gray Clearer" (2017, PoB-32)

Mind Over Mirrors – Undying Color: "Glossolaliac" (2017, PoB-32)

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Buy from Bandcamp (all formats): bit.ly/2ogJEXt
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Mind Over Mirrors 
Undying Color
LP/CD/Digital 
PoB-32
Worldwide release date: 2/15/17

www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-32
www.paradiseofbachelors.com/mind-over-mirrors

The new album by the ever-evolving project of Jaime Fennelly is his most ambitious and spellbinding set of roiling, meditative recordings to date, and the first to supplement his foundational arsenal of Indian pedal harmonium, analog synthesizers, and incantatory voices with a full ensemble, including Janet Bean (Eleventh Dream Day), Jim Becker (Califone), Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux), and Jon Mueller (Death Blues). Undying Color braids folk and formal, praise and play, within its heady swells and troughs, invoking American vernacular musical traditions and pulsating avant-garde electronics alike. With prayerful patience and ceremonial gravity, it conjures and celebrates the cyclical rhythms of nature: tidal surges, human breathing, cicadas in the wilderness gloaming. W/color inner sleeve, DL card.

RIYL: Brian Eno, Henry Flynt, Moondog, Popul Vuh, Sun Ra, Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes, Arthur Russell, Laurie Spiegel.

“Devotional and alarming ... an out-of-body experience.” – NPR 
“Massive, hypnotic, endless … shoots straight for the stratosphere.” – Pitchfork

Mind Over Mirrors- Undying Color: "Gravity Wake" (2017, PoB-32)

Mind Over Mirrors – Undying Color: "Restore & Slip" (2017, PoB-32)

From the upcoming release 'XOXO' out on October 28th
via Velvet Blue Music

https://velvetbluemusic.com

XOXO

SOFT LIONS 'Freeway'

Chris James - Stairs Up To The Sun. "This song represents a special time for me, it happened really fast, it just kind of wrote itself! I remember having the idea on the beach, watching the sunlight reflecting off the ocean. The title is a reference to William Blake's poem Ah! Sun-flower." Stairs Up To The Sun - Chris James - Taken from Space In The Clouds EP out Dec 9. Mixed by Suneil Pusari, piano by Nick Ramm, bass by Arista Hawkes.

Stairs Up To The Sun

Earlier this year, the band won a Spellemann Award (equivelant of a Norwegian GRAMMY Award) for best indie album. Få meg til verden i tide is The Megaphonic Thrift's fourth album, and it's the band's first to feature lyrics in Norwegian. Much less guitar orientated than previous albums, Få meg til verden i tide is filled with synthesizers, and it's their first with new collaborators Njål Paulsberg (neo Tokyo/Young Dreams) and Emil Nikolaisen (Serena-Maneesh). 

"The four members in Megaphonic have become more unison for each record we’ve made together," says guitarist and vocalist Richard Myklebust. "After the third record, making new music felt like giving each other a hug. We wanted to bring in someone who had a more radical approach to making music. We needed disagreement, and boy did we get it."
 
A lot has happened since the summer of 2015 when The Megaphonic Thrift filled a car with synths and boxed wine, isolating themselves in a cabin far up in the Norwegian desolate mountains to write what would become Få meg til verden i tide.
 
"We thought we were just heading into the studio to make the final adjustments and thought it was going to be easy. All the songs were ready. It didn’t turn out easy at all," says bassist and vocalist Linn Frøkedal.
 
The band describes the studio process as a long road trip, where a new driver can take the wheel at any moment. "Nikolaisen is based in Oslo (on the other side of the mountains), and guitarist Clementsen was on a Japanese tour with his other band Electric Eye, so sketches and new ideas were thrown back and forth on seemingly endless mail threads," says guitarist Njål Clementsen. "This record is proof that it is possible to make a really cool record in a really hard way. It doesn’t have to be easy!"

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The Megaphonic Thrift - Pilene

"Thinking Is Weightless" taken from Vanishing Life's forthcoming debut LP 'Surveillance.' Available November 11, 2016 via Dine Alone Records worldwide.

Vanishing Life - Thinking Is Weightless

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