Mahogany - Renovo

Spring allows us to sense. Invisible and immense.

Album: Connectivity [2nd album]
Genre: Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
Album Release: October 9th 2006
Length: 3.53
Producer: Andrew Prinz
Vocalist: Jaclyn Slimm
Label: Darla

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• Mahogany had previously released two EP's.
• Mahogany present themselves as no mere band but a multi-media performance collective who happen to make albums. Their music is atmospheric, meditative dream pop that has the retro psychedelic styles of the sixties updated for the modern times of 2006. At one point the band grew to eight full time members and even more for live performances though has since shrank to two.
• Dream pop legend Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins does production work on the album.
• The band are keen environmentalists that have taken their name from the mahogony tree which band leader Andrew Prinz describes as "proud and beautiful"
  
  
• The Renovo of the title refers to a small town in Pennsylvania. Prinz told erasingclouds.com that "cities seem to have an effect on music, it can mean that your tempos are faster, or that you choose specific keys or time signatures, that you end up emulating the machinery around you in your music." 'Renovo' is a glacial soundscape that builds slowly but moves steadily with purpose. It has no percussion or bass so relies on brass to maintain tempo while strings shimmy alongside. It sounds to me like someone singing on top of a mountain overlooking the town below. It somehow feels crisp, like a cold blast of morning air.
  
  
• The album has a deliberate sense of structure as if played with extreme concern for accuracy. Every bit is where it is because it couldn't be anywhere else. It is composed. The band leader is a fan of classical music and has recruited enough musicians that their live shows resemble a small orchestra. When dealing with so many players the music has to be constructed. It would be difficult to jam with more than 10 people. 
• The album is notable for its lack of bass.
  
  
  
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