Today SF artist Sis announces their third album, and first full-length since 2019, Vibhuti, which will be released on their own Native Cat label on June 21, 2024. You can hear two songs from the album now, here's some background on "Mother's Grace":
"This song started out very quiet in terms of sonic elements, which mirrored my intention--I wanted to write about the concept of asking for the grace of the Divine Mother in my life. More specifically, I was finding new inroads with my speech, to take a pause and ask for help before I said something in a difficult situation. Or as Sri Aurobindo writes, 'When I speak, the reason says, This will I say; but God takes the word out of my mouth and the lips say something else at which reason trembles.' Then as the percussive layers were built, I felt it was going more towards a joyful, revival kind of sound that was mirroring the building of joy and strength in my own life at that time." - Jenny Mason
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.
FOR FANS OF:
Bat For Lashes, Molly Nilsson, Faye Webster, Weyes Blood
Sis
Vibhuti
(Native Cat Recordings)
Street Date: June 21, 2024
Pre-order it HERE
Track list:
1) Cave of Plenty
2) Mother's Grace
3) Bow to Your Wilderness
4) Splendor
5) Jugaspa
6) Pregnant in Bhutan
7) Rose Gold Shoes
8) Center of the Heart
9) Mystic Spider
10) Stargate Road
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