flowering head by Jenny Banai

flowering head. The collaborative life co-existing in this project from a wide spectrum of friends and family through variable space, makes it every bit valuable and beautiful. It is a gift inspired through deep connections and carried by encouragement, affirmation and love. The collection of willing and dear ones my heart and song invited in overwhelms me. I am a blessed human being. How much I have learned, been formed and released through risking the created to exist outside my lonely bedroom and space with God. The interwoven fabrics created to design flowering head are just as they are meant. The soft intimate lyrics and melodies and intricate happenings cloud this piece with fullness. I am discovering more in my heart through every moment it speaks, and I hope it will continue to openly speak.

Likened to that of Joni Mitchell and Lesley Feist, Jenny Banai’s voice has been described as “explosively fluid”. When she sings, it is much like a tap has been turned on cleansing the souls of listeners. Though she is armed with years of classical training and performance experience, she carries within her an experimental and spontaneous nature, stemming from the imaginative early years of her childhood. An interweaving of liturgical poems and unconventional melodies are the patchwork that is her debut, flowering head. “There’s no shortage of soothing positivity in flowering head, but the depths she finds confronting adversity make for the most powerful—and poignant—revelation of the gift she’s sharing” (Grey Owl Point)

"She is able to ebb her voice in dynamic with masterful control, rocking you gently into a dream, yet gripping your ears to keep you awake: lucid and loose" (SAD MAG).

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