The title of Kini's album may immediately call to mind Virginia Woolf's treatise, no doubt some of the words found there cannot but resonate with the soundscapes emanating from Kini's unique musical battle cry; “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Kini composes color-sensations from the edges of the mind, which is where experience most often dwells, along the side lines and back roads of our psyches. Listening to the album one has the impression of an improvisation of the senses, back to basics - everything is imaginative before it is conditional. The intense and potent musical interweavings of A Room Of One's Own etch indelible crossroads of possibility on the mind. Rare is the album these days that forces great questions upon us, Kini, however, manages to do just that. "We must kill the false woman, preventing us from breathing" Kini sings in I Too Overflow, a song which wrestles with all of the false and impossible containment's forced upon us. How can we not seep at the edges, psychical/bodily overflows of our being? Kini remarks of the song that it is "a proud acknowledgment of my own tendency to overflow, with fear, anger, frustration, idleness… We all do, but society says it’s ugly to show that you do." Music makes of such supposed ugliness a beauty inborn, what is seen as a weakness is more accurately our most allied inner-self. There is turmoil in us all, here we find music that pokes through so many artificial layers of concealment. Turmoil is a room of many fertile dimensions. As the world speeds up to dizzying effects, Kini uses such bombardment as a way to peel back layers of meaning from the overflow of daily life. The songs of A Room Of One's Own are fierce, haunting and their odd beauty speaks indirectly to Nietzsche's words that “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Without the overflow there is no flow. Our lives are uncontainable things of great mystery, thankfully so. Keep up with Kini Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Twitter | Soundcloud | iTunes | Spotify Keep up with The Sublunar Society Website | Facebook | Bandcamp | Soundcloud | Twitter | YouTube | Vimeo | Instagram Keep up with Shameless Promotion PR Website | Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud | Instagram | LinkedIn | Email
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