Reverb Worship 
Mountainhood : Brother The Cloud (US,2008)**°
Mountainhood more or less is the solo project of the more group sound project Almaden. Songs matter here most, and are accompanied by acoustic guitar, and sometimes earth drum or handclaps or a few more voices and a moody and beautifully badly played flute. Some songs are a bit in the early Tyranosaurus Rex area, show the hippie at its most sweet and delicate. It’s a dreaming away in the feelings, with delicate pickings, then sharing them with a home recorded warm sweetness as if sitting together by a fire and sharing feelings and songs, in those unique warm moments, clapping hands and singing a bit along with a communal feeling, then withdrawing a bit with the more difficult to share feelings with some lonely sadness, whining and crying a bit, more strummed.
The mountain song reminds me that mountain people are lucky to have not so much radio-waves interferences. They spent a longer period in history than others (without radio and TV) and used to share music as a communal creative moment. As long as mobile phone antennas are not all over the place, destroying the higher peaceful sensitivities, this island of peace feeling can still continue a bit longer. Yes, people’s bodies work like antennas; I once was near a radio transmitter, and when I touched metal near a receiver the signal was transmitted through my body into the receiver. A freighting idea which made me realize even more how much our bodies must suffer from stress of these waves, if we want to use our minds as more sensitive antennas to deeper thoughts, feelings and intuitions. Just know that some of the already used up frequencies (mobile phones) are also used in our brains, so we’re slowly burned up by this abuse of frequencies. How many insects and plants also suffer from this? Only storms can bring some relieve of tension. Nowadays little people do more than functioning like a machine, or are incapable of using their memory well because of this described condition. (I didn't even talk about the magnetic field and moving of the magnetic poles of the earth).
Mountainhood believes in a brother-and sisterhood, an environment to share music, the importance of feelings in expressions. But still, 19 songs are a bit much for this sort of concept. And where the last few songs were skipping, like a cdr so easily does, I already didn’t mind, despite the joyful moments I shared with this recording. A resume or a shorter album would have done it better.
Edition of 50 numbered copies.
