This year marks the 170th anniversary of the harmonium, a wind- and reed-powered keyboard instrument that has joined the bagpipes as premier drone-based musical instruments of the modern age. Now, over a century and a half later, we can mark the instrument’s birthday with a new wind- and reed-powered record, Check Your Swing, courtesy of drone artist and master harmoniumist Jaime Fennelly as Mind Over Mirrors. Using both an old instrument and some other not-so-old ones, Fennelly (Peeesseye, Phantom Limb) creates a lush, swirling listening experience that fittingly evokes the characteristics of the dense, green wilderness cover art: constant and monotone, yet full of ornate detail and variety.
Pre-oder it from Hands In The Dark here, and listen to the entirety of Check Your Swing here:
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• Mind Over Mirrors: http://mindovermirrors.tumblr.com
• Hands In The Dark: http://handsinthedarkrecords.tumblr.com/releases