Sweep the Temple, by Fountainsun

Sweep the Temple

by Fountainsun

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Garrett Daun Absolutely love Fountainsun. Accidentally saw them open for Bonnie Prince Billy in California a couple years ago. Something started to happen after I dismissed the weird folk duo and continued with my beer. Before I could try to disperse my attention elsewhere, Daniel and Fumii had captured, unified, condensed, empowered, unlimited and given it back to me perfectly clean. Of course I've been rapt with attention toward them since that fateful night. Well worth a deep and abiding exploration.

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This LP features an original drawing by Daniel Higgs (front), and a portrait of Fountainsun by Fumie Ishii (back). Printed on the highest quality recycled reverse-board (deluxe matte) jackets. The package also includes a hand letter pressed insert. 140 gram, high fidelity black vinyl. Mastered by John Golden. The first pressing is limited to 1,100 hand-numbered records.

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1.	Sweep the Temple 07:02	buy track
2.	I Give You My Heart (After Brother Kamel) 08:39	buy track
3.	Many Miles 02:30	buy track
4.	Minor Woodland Deity 01:56	buy track
5.	Garden Gate IV 04:42	buy track
6.	Mupi's Song 03:49	buy track
7.	Obsession and Devotion 00:40	buy track
8.	Aesop 04:10	buy track
9.	Lamps of Friendom 05:11	buy track

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On Fountainsun’s debut LP, Music Today, Daniel Higgs and Fumie Ishii served as guides on a multidimensional pilgrimage through the cosmos. We return, with their second album, to find our Dionysian duo not at journey’s end, but settled down within a many-chambered temple –contemplating matters of the heart and sprit; immersed in daily ritual both sacred and profane.

As the title suggests, the central theme of "Sweep the Temple" is one of purification. Cleansing the inner and outer sanctum, primarily of limitation. Limits imposed upon us, and the Universe itself, by the very idea that we can fully comprehend the nature of reality. "Sweep the Temple" is a call to action, and an embodiment of that call. We must “sweep the temple free” each day from notions of duality, perceived separation, and the entanglements of socialized beliefs.

Time-honored forms of expression (folk song, parable, ballad, rhapsody) populate this album but appear slightly out of phase with ordinary reality. Fountainsun employs many instruments to purify their anarchic sanctuary, including a 12-string banjo, vibraphone, marimba, guitars, drums, gongs, and even an actual broom.

These songs coax and goad in equal measure, drawing us ever deeper into holy negotiations between sense and nonsense. Take the Dadaist deconstruction of Aesop’s Fables that comprise the lyrics of the track titled “Aesop”. In order to "Sweep the Temple" we must at times surrender narrative entirely and simply exist in marvelous uncertainty.

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