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. With prayerful patience and ceremonial gravity, these 7 extraordinary songs conjure and celebrate the cyclical rhythms of nature: tidal surges, human breathing, cicadas in the wilderness gloaming. The record’s forty-five minutes uncannily subsume listeners within an enveloping sensation of primeval remoteness, the heady wonder and instinctual trepidation of sleeping alone beneath the stars. The immersive soundworld that saturates Undying Color elides the physical and the metaphysical.

Another fine release from the Paradise Of Bachelors label... Pulsing drone-folk with a cosmic, spiritual air reminiscent of Popol Vuh and Six Organs Of Admittance, or maybe Harold Budd's collaboration with Cocteau Twins. Indian pedal harmonium, synths, electronics, percussion, fiddle and more with hymnal vocal sequences from Janet Bean of Freakwater and Haley Fohr of Circuit Des Yeux...

By Adam