Come hither and revel in a deliciously melodramatic, trippy, and ethereal album. Jen Gloeckner serenades an escape into fluid wallowings of pseudo-gothic lyrics and tones. Let tunes like “Sleep to Dream” and “Peace Among the Chaos” lull you into strange and wonderful visions. Then dive into a “52^nd thrill.” Float and meander as the world spins and stirs in a delightfully bizarre haze. Meditate. Breathe. Ride the trance.

Available on vinyl, CD, and MP3 at JenGloeckner.com.

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The winner of the Jen Gloeckner’s Mouth Of Mars t-shirt design contest is Joanna Ciampa from Winthrop, Massachusetts! The shirt will be available in the JenGloeckner.com store soon!

SINCE CHILDHOOD JOANNA HAS BEEN KEEPING RECORDS OF HER VIVID DREAMS AND EVENTUALLY BEGAN TO DRAW THEM. SHE WOULD INTUITIVELY SKETCH PLACES IN THE WORLD SUCH AS EGYPT, CHINA, PARIS AND MANY EXOTIC LANDS SHE HAD NOT SEEN, BUT FELT DRAWN TO. NEVER REALIZING SHE ACTUALLY WAS  DRAWING HER FUTURE.

SHE KNEW AT THIS YOUNG AGE SHE WANTED TO BE AN ARTIST AND WAS UNSURE HOW TO FUND HER FUTURE.  WITH THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF HER MOTHER, JOANNA JUGGLED MANY JOBS TO PUTHERSELF THROUGH COLLEGE. WHICH LEAD HER TO WHERE SHE IS TODAY. JOANNA IS A MULTIFACETED  INTUITIVE ARTIST, HER RANGE VARIES FROM PAINTING, INTERIOR DESIGN & DESIGN CONCEPTS, PHOTOGRAPHY, WRITING, AND EXPERIMENTING IN MUSIC & FILM. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT JOANNA CIAMPA PLEASE VISIT HER WEBSITE AT JOANNACIAMPA.COM

Jen Gloeckner – Mouth of Mars

If you haven’t heard of Jen Gloeckner, you need to. There’s something about the way her dreamy music comes together that makes it altogether unique and completely fresh. I recently got my hands on her 15-track CD, Mouth of Mars – an entirely beautiful collection of songs like the voices of delicate hidden curios telling their stories for the first time.

Gloeckner easily evokes an early Stevie Nicks, Portishead, and Sneaker Pimps’ Kelly Ali in sound, and a mid-career Nick Cave (Henry’s Dream, Tender Prey) lyrically. But while Nick Cave deals solely in a hard-scrabble earth-bound reality where any otherworldly interaction is a Christian one – the lyrical characters have real struggles and physical brawls with angels and demons; Gloeckner is much less literal. Her experience is a trip into a multi-sensual dreamworld, illustrated aurally. The instrumentation is every bit as lyrically beautiful as the well-placed vocal effects reminiscent of psychotropic Cedric Bixler-Zavala.  Where Nick Cave confronts you and looks you square in the holes of your soul, Gloeckner makes you receptive. She draws your eyes upwards and around, making you chase the sounds of the universal soul.

Mouth of Mars opens ethereally with the title track; soft tones are contrasted by heavy, clanking bells like the rusted wind chimes of an old farmhouse or Depression glass clanking on a window sill right before the tornado hits. Sweeping psychedelic effects serve to pluck the song from this world and jettison it back into the cosmos.

Gloeckner pulls your boat into rough waters with the uptempo “Die”, whose pounding rhythm drives on at an unrelenting breakneck pace, compared to the rest of the album. But she has a knack for soothing you with uneasy overtones. It’s in the contrast between her homey, earthy voice and the music that shoots off into the black keys and gets the knobs twisted a little too far, too suddenly.

In “Trip” and “Peace Among Chaos”, this contrast is muted, giving way to dreamy, drifty songs that act as a respite, an oasis on a cloud, or the eerily, beautifully still eye of a hurricane. Then “Let’s Get Honest”, though short, hands you a beer and welcomes you back inside around a warm wooden hearth. Now there is a part in every album, on every set list, about three-quarters of the way through, where the band stalls out a bit in the story, and Gloeckner’s no exception. Fortunately, she only falls prey for two songs. “Come In My Garden” and “Mouth of Mars Reprise” leave you stranded in the dreamworld a little too long, and you’re left paddling your canoe on a misty lake, no land in sight, no one else around, and right before you get that “…..am I stuck?” precursor to panic, “A Lullaby” picks up the macabre pace and gets the story moving, and “Bailing Water” suddenly throws gothic overcast skies and blackened bare trees into the mix. The darker overtones continue to the last song, “5 2nd Thrill”, which could easily be thrown into the rotation at Bar Sinister, or on the next Twilight installment soundtrack.

Jen Gloeckner is a storyteller in lyric, music, and in the undertones. Mouth of Mars reads more like a soundtrack to a movie I’d be the first in line to see, as you can’t help but fabricate a story to go with the music, it’s that tangible and immediate. It’s music that draws you in like an old radio show – you really can’t easily do much of anything else while listening to Mouth of Mars. And you won’t want to. For music as a perfect escape into the ether, let Jen Gloeckner’s Mouth of Mars be your guide.

Hi Everyone!

You have two weeks from now to come up with the winning
design for the new “Jen Gloeckner’s Mouth Of Mars” t shirt!
The winner will receive the following:

1. $250 cash prize!
2. A profile feature at JenGloeckner.com!
3. A signed Mouth Of Mars vinyl record and cd!
4. A t shirt that includes your winning design!

The contest will run through Sunday, December 20th (11:59pm Central Standard Time). Submit as many designs as you like. There are no rules or guide lines.
Let the music be your guide! If the design is great, we will use it!

You can send your submissions and questions to contest@jengloeckner.com. Submissions can also be sent via YouSendIt.com to john@jengloeckner.com

Good luck!

JenGloeckner.com

You can download high-quality tracks from her latest album Mouth of Mars.

You can also download the tracks in the store.

Download all fifteen spell-weaving tracks in the Store.

CLICK HERE!

We want to sell it directly to you initially so I hope you will consider visiting our store and shopping with us over the holidays!  Eventually it will be in other stores but we are keeping it to ourselves through the holidays.  Look for wider distribution in the new year.

If there is something you want and don’t see please don’t hestitate to contact us here: http://jengloeckner.com/contact/. We will respond promptly.

You can listen to both Mouth of Mars and Miles Away in their entirety without any interruption on jengloeckner.com. Listen as many times as you want and if you like what you here then visit the store: http://jengloeckner.com/store/

Looking forward to your feedback.

Team Gloeckner