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Vibhuti

by Sis

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition vinyl pressed by Third Man Pressing
    + circular watercolor painting by Jenny Gillespie Mason

    Includes digital pre-order of Vibhuti. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases June 21, 2024
    item ships out on or around July 15, 2024
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    releases June 21, 2024

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  • Full Digital Discography

    11
    releases

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Vibhuti, Center Of the Heart, Double Rapture (Sun Flare Remix by Matthew Herbert), Gnani, Double Rapture, Fingerpaint, Switchback, Gas Station Roses, and 3 more. , and , .

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1.
Cave Of Plenty
2.
Mother's Grace 03:58
lyrics
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She's got me In a boundless kind of bind I can hear her Her voice deep with light She's working On my heart and on my mind Nothing wrong with them, child Only places to refine Ask the sun permission To take them back All of the cords from your captors Ask for the Mother's grace Before you act Before you speak Say what you stand for Cut the head off It's a lot kinder you know Than to dance in the same old trance Let yourself run the show With her help Ask the sun permission To take them back All of the cords from your captors Ask for the Mother's grace Before you act Before you speak Say what you stand for
3.
Bow To Your Wilderness
4.
Splendor
5.
Jugaspa
6.
Pregnant In Bhutan
7.
Center Of The Heart 04:13
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8.
Rose Gold Shoes
9.
Mystic Spider
10.
Stargate Road

about

Vibhuti is an emotionally concentrated yet musically roving document of spiritual awakening by Sis, the recording project of Jenny Gillespie Mason. A series of healing dreams led her to want to create music that could be the expression of her own “vibhuti,” the Sanskrit term for the divine spirit in the human body. The result is an album that merges spiritual life with a constant, restless search for the new in one’s music.

During the time of making the album, Mason encountered the books of 20th century Indian mystic Sri Aurobindo and his partner, the Mother. Their words implore humanity to recognize its divine origins and future of ascension. Songs like “Mother’s Grace," “Bow to Your Wilderness,” and “Mystic Spider” sprang from Mason’s study of their luminous teachings, while “Pregnant in Bhutan,” “Center of the Heart,” and “Splendor,” draw from intimate stories of her life as a woman and mother in the light of a deepening spirituality.

Never satisfied with what came before, Mason sought to make a sparkling, joyful aural landscape just as a painter would with a newly formulated collection of hues. Each sound, from the Afghan rubab to the harmonium to a Yamaha C-3 synth, is its own particular, soulful creature inside a colorful pastoral. Vibhuti bridges all of Mason’s sonic loves: new age, instrumental, synth-pop, jazz, and world music. Mason worked with longtime collaborators Brijean and Doug Stuart on percussion, bass and production, and invited Will Miller of Resavoir to play trumpet and Devendra Banhart to play electric guitar on two instrumental tracks “Jugaspa” and “Cave of Plenty.” The result is an artist talking intimately with herself and with God, in the hopes that the listener will join the conversation and bring their own depth of inner experience.

credits

releases June 21, 2024

Jenny Gillespie Mason: vocals, synths, harmonium, Rhodes, Roland Juno-106, ARP Odyssey, Hammond B3 organ, Yamaha C-3, piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion, sampling, synth bass

Doug Stuart: bass, synths, upright bass, synth bass, OP-1, sampling, Rhodes, glockenspiel, drum machine, effects, Korg minilogue, additional production on “Mother’s Grace,” “Pregnant in Bhutan,” “Center of the Heart,” and “Rose Gold Shoes”

Brijean Murphy: conga, bongos, seeds, chimes, cowbell, bells, woodblock, caxixi, flexitone, handclaps, tambourine, shaker, gong

Hamir Atwal: drums

Will Miller: trumpet

Maruf Noyoft: rubab on “Cave of Plenty” and “Mystic Spider”

Devendra Banhart: electric guitar on “Cave of Plenty” and “Jugaspa”

Andrew Rose Gregory: backing vocals on “Mother’s Grace,” “Splendor,” and “Mystic Spider”

Mixed by James Riotto
Mastered by Joe LaPorta, Sterling Sound

All songs copyright Jenny Gillespie Mason/Native Cat Recordings/ASCAP/2024

Drums recording engineered by Eli Crews, Spillway Sound
Additional recording engineered by Jay Pellicci, Brothers Chinese Recording

Photos by Andrew Paynter
Album design by Ginger Fierstein

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