On her new album In the Safety of the Light, Jenny Gillespie Mason is turning back to her musical roots. After a decade pursuing psychedelic pop, jazz, and electronic textures through her project Sis (and most recently as Sis and the Lower Wisdom), Jenny Gillespie Mason has returned to the music of her teenage years: dreamy, slightly psychedelic folk. The album takes a strand of English-influenced folk, as Gillespie realised an ambition to work with producer Noah Georgeson, inspired by his production work with folk visionaries Bert Jansch and Vashti Bunyan.
Medicine of Light plays with concepts of being earthbound and aspiring to higher spiritual leanings. Gillespie says of it, “Medicine of Light” was first written on the piano and was much shorter, almost like an interlude. When Noah Georgeson and I discussed how tracking would go and the players we would bring in for the session, I realized by transferring it to acoustic guitar, I could make the song fuller and longer because I felt it would not only be more fun to arrange, but that the message of the song deserved more space; it’s almost like a hymn, I think.”
