Such a delight to be featured in @thewiremagazine by way of Byron Coley’s excellent column!
“… a counterbalance to the raging reality in which we find ourselves.“
Sparking sweet thoughts and memories of the many new age musicians i have been so inspired by for so long (iasos, laraaji, enya, & many more). the more i learn to be present, to meditate, to make music…. the lifelong journeys……… the more i feel they are all one in the same. such an honor, always a new age girlie at heart 🪞
HEAT OF RITUAL tour starting May 23 in these sweet sweet southern locales!!! late may road trip sharing tapes and sounds. what could be better <3 flyers and more info coming soon ⛓️🌹photo slide 2: @stephanietarrantphoto
Our story follows Sylvie, who stumbles through a mystical portal into landscapes of witches, planets, and dancing night creatures. Following themes of imagination, fear, and the magical subconscious, the work explores the quiet corners of distant fairytale dreams.
Heat of Ritual: Portals is a short puppet film accompanying Mere of Light’s new album.
Puppets, sets, film and music by @mereoflight .
✨Thank you for the wonderful response to the new release from Mere of Light! We’re excited to share this music with you, and it means the world to recieve your interest and support.
The cassettes turned out beautifully: Professionally real-time duplicated to premium RSTM stock, and loaded to mauve-swirl shells. Featuring artwork and lettering by Phoebe Mol, with a three panel double sided j-card printed to 12 pt gloss cardstock, housed in vintage-style heavy duty Norelco case. Released in a limited edition of 50 copies worldwide.
Special thanks to White Light / White Heat for premiering the new Portals short film yesterday, calling it: “… thought-provoking catharsis”.
Hit the link in bio to listen, watch, and grab your copy before they disappear.
All music by Elise McArdle @mereoflight
Recorded by: @michaelmacdonaldofficial@bimbom.studios
Mastered by: @guillermopizarr@vitoriaregiastudios
Artwork & lettering: @dogwithnoteeth
Duplication & printing: @duplication.ca
Distribution: @tobirarecords@dorisnordic
#cassettecollector #mereoflight #fantasymusic
“Heat of Ritual” is born to the world today!!!
Please check out the Lighten Up Sounds bandcamp or website for cassette and physical media purchases!
I’m so thrilled to also share the accompanying short film “Portals” premiering on the White Light / White Heat site today. Thank you so much to everyone who helped bring this project to fruition. Feeling so astonished, fabulous, fanciful, grateful, inspired <3
Also available for streaming on many a platform~
Released on Cassette by @lightenupsounds
Recorded by Michael Mac at @bimbom.studios
Mastered by @guillermopizarr , Vitória Régia Studios
Artwork by @dogwithnoteeth
Photos by @mxxmorningstar
just a few short days until i shall share “Heat of Ritual” and the PORTALS video <3 Both the video and the songs were deep labors of love; sometimes finicky and moody processes that wrote and re-wrote themselves time and again - but the underlying devotion is always there, running thru like a river, and hopefully shines out in the final concept! more coming 4.24 🌹
Mere of Light is the project of Elise McArdle, an electronic producer, songwriter, vocalist, and electro-acoustic harpist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Creating music rooted in themes of magic, fantasy, and feminism, her new album offers six tracks of real-time, transformative electronics. Working alone on the floor with folk harp, analog synthesizer, drum machine, and voice, McArdle processes and arranges each instrument through a refined process of multitrack sampling. Romantic, fleeting, and edged with danger. Through patient echolocation, an essential optimism emerges: love, acceptance, and freedom of self. These themes ground the album’s mysticism in pure, elemental momentum. ‘Heat of Ritual’ dwells in threshold states, feeling through the darkness for what’s true and lasting. The full album arrives next weekend, with deluxe art editions and mauve-swirl cassettes featuring original artwork and lettering by Phoebe Mol. Listen and reserve your copy today!
📸: @songsofthemorningstar
🎨: @dogwithnoteeth
#mereoflight #fantasymusic #harpmusic #neworleansmusic #lightenupsounds
ONEIRIC LIMINAL FIELD TESTS v3
A third installment focusing on improvisation, and the shared presence of sound.
🗓️ April 16th
⏰ 7:00–9:30 pm
📍 Okay Bar (Backyard)
We are thrilled to welcome Ceremonial Abyss on tour from Portland, OR.
Featuring;
Ceremonial Abyss (PDX)
Mere of Light
Eddie Chapman
Justin Ready
ONEIRIC LIMINAL FIELD TESTS continues to grow as an emergent, welcoming, and evolving collective focused on the creative experience and providing space for experimentation and contribution.
Open to all.
If you’re working experimentally and would like to participate this night or future editions, please reach out to @ready.justin .
Emergent structure. Invited contributions. Collective listening.
album release show on May 3rd, at the Mudlark! mark those cals 🌹 so excited to perform with these artists i admire at a wonderful space!
featuring:
-experimental / industrial heavy hitter Shining Fields
-shimmering, deeply intentional magic of Organelle
-synthpop glam adventures from Drugstore Lipstick
see you May 3 <333
SNEEK PEAK of “Portals”…………… a short film i made with entirely miniature sets, to accompany the “Heat of Ritual” album that will be released on April 24! it is an itty-bitty tender & tiny visual romp paired with some special sounds <3 excited to share more!
Beyond excited to share that I have an album, “Heat of Ritual”, coming out on @lightenupsounds on April 24th! it is a special weaving of looped harp and synth, a dreamy delay-drenched offering…………. 🐚
art: @dogwithnoteeth
photos: @mxxmorningstar
