MIND OVER MIRRORS - Bellowing Sun (140g)

Sonically, Bellowing Sun is both kaleidoscopic and telescopic in nature, offering a radiant palette of rhythmic, textural, and tonal
complexity, as well as rapid shifts in scale, from the intimately corporeal to the dizzyingly cosmic. Though long associated with his
meditative solo work for harmonium, tape delay, and other effects, with Bellowing Sun, Fennelly has ascended to a thrilling new
communicatory stratum, departing the solo, interior monologues of his early work and the deeply focused dialogues of the album’s
recent predecessor Undying Color (2017) for something broadly communal, massively polyphonic, and unabashedly spiritual in its
scope and scale. All four J’s—Jaime, Janet, Jim, and Jon—appeared together on Undying Color, but have since solidified into a
formidable, cohesive unit, a true band capable of increasingly expansive arrangements. Though divided into twelve movements, or
aspects—zodiacal sectors, perhaps—the piece functions as a heroic, integral whole. Several instrumental components and vocal motifs
function as modular and parallactic, originally recorded for different sections but interchangeably transposable elsewhere, much as
certain constellations share stars in common. The album’s sequence reveals a dynamic push and pull between contemplative stasis and
headlong momentum, imparting a palpably physical mass to the cataracts of sound.

Vinyl release of Mind Over Mirrors - Bellowing Sun (140g). Released through PARADISE OF BACHELORS and available on 2LP.