Photo by Saverio Truglia.
Mind Over Mirrors will release their massive new double album, Bellowing Sun, on April 6th. After premiering the first single “Matchstick Grip” with NPR Music, today the band shares their second single “Zeitgebers,” via The Quietus.
“In composing Bellowing Sun, Fennelly focused on rhythm more than ever. On “Matchstick Grip” that tactic pays continual dividends, injecting blood into his oxygen-rich music.” – NPR Music
“Stratospheric soundscapes with textural vocalizations that bring to mind the orbital beauty of Steve Reich while achieving an analog warmth all its own.” – FACT
“A cosmic groove.” – Stereogum
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Mind Over Mirrors, led by Chicagoan Jaime Fennelly, has shared “Zeitgebers,” a trance-inducing track from the heart of Bellowing Sun, the group’s new album out April 6th. Underpinned by a subtly shifting drum pulse, the track’s swirl of synthesizer, violin, and harmonium is propulsive and engrossing, moving through several distinct phases of pattern and movement before gently slipping away. Along with Jim Becker (Iron and Wine, Califone) on violin, Janet Beveridge Bean (Freakwater, Eleventh Dream Day) on hand percussion, and Jon Mueller (Death Blues) on drums, Fennelly (on Oberheim SEMs and OB-6 synthesizers and harmonium) has created cosmic music that is driving and physical, defined by an exuberant kosmische pulse.
“Zeitgebers” was inspired by the encroachment of artificial light into the lives of all beings, and the effect that new sensory input on circadian rhythms. Jaime Fennelly writes:
“A couple of years ago I began exploring what it means for us (humans, and all animals, plants, fungi and beyond) to be living on a planet that is currently getting brighter and brighter each year through artificial lighting, and the impact that that has on us in a metaphysical sense as well as various behavioral and biological effects. Where we are going isn’t looking so great, although it certainly will be very bright. Thanks to a focus on the topic in the media due to a number of recent scientific studies, as well as Paul Bogard’s engrossing book, “The End of Night”, I came to understand more fully what circadian rhythms were and how our bodies, including the intercommunication pathways between our organs and nervous system, synchronize to environmental cues to keep us running as a well-tuned holistic organism. The growing amount of artificial light, as well as the spectrum of transmitted light changing from incandescent to LED, is directly impacting our biology in ways that have never been experienced before by anyone or anything on Earth. Ever. The natural time keeping events that we have evolved with over the millennia are suddenly being changed through human intervention, and the initial effects are just beginning to become evident. “Zeitgebers” (which translates from German to English as “time-giver”) acknowledges these greater forces around us and within us.”
Listen to “Zeitgebers”
Mind Over Mirrors will put these ideas into practice at the live debut of Bellowing Sun, which will take place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago on April 6th, followed by an encore performance April 7th. Fennelly, in collaboration with visual artists Timothy Breen, Eliot Irwin, and lighting designer Keith Parham, has designed a zoetrope that will be installed above the ensemble and spin as they perform. The production was commissioned by the MCA.
Listen to “Matchstick Grip”
Watch Bellowing Sun Trailer
