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Prana Crafter MindStreamBlessing

Prana Crafter MindStreamBlessing Reviewed by Grey Malkin (The Hare & The Moon) Over a year has passed since we at The Active Listener delighted in the psych wonder of Rupture of Planes from Prana Crafter, the project of Washington Woods guitarist William Sol. It is fortuitous then that from his isolated forest home Sol has been quietly assembling his latest offering, MindStreamBlessing, which is now available courtesy of  Eiderdown records. Opener At Agarthas Gate delicately enters on a hush of chiming guitars and mellotron, a gently epic introduction that recalls both Zeppelins Rain Song and Ben Chasnys finest moments with Six Organs of Admittance. Yet these are just reference points; Prana Crafter are unique in their own individual vision and in the particular combination of both rustic and cosmiche that they conjure seemingly at will. If this track is the mist over the redwoods and the sense of soft rain on your skin, then follower As The Weather Commands is the full blown t...