Author: joshua.dumas@gmail.com

Book 01 reviewed at Where the Music Meets

“This is one of the most ambitious projects we’ve ever heard. It places music into a completely different position, jumping from opera, soundtracking, and ambient music to folk elements and noise elements, and everything in line to narrate this storytelling. Mending is establishing a way not only to compose music as we’ve known until now but to make it as a full piece of art, similar to cinema.“

Super grateful for this generous and thorough review of Book 01!

Mending combine epic storytelling and drone-folk soundscapes | HighClouds

“The tune follows a type of recitative introduced by piano, and punctuated with  noise and static in the mix. The work as a whole is dark, gritty, and dank in mood, but not in quality.  I envision a swirling of dark mist on a rainy, muddy evening.” — Composer’s Toolbox

“a dark and tranquil piece that features various sound fx, a lonesome piano track, and a layered female voice that is both sweet and soft as well as melancholic and haunting.” —It’s Not Records

“It’s a labor of passion. Have a go.” — Come Here Floyd

“[M]arked by a sense of weight and poignancy, the melancholic-yet-affirming instrumentation almost conjuring The Antlers’ Hospice… Ultimately, this sense of awe is what marks the first chapter, and the ambition to explore it so profoundly and patiently seems to be Mending’s unique talent.” – Various Small Flames

“Gorgeous piano melodies and aching drones underscore a sweeping family drama … the drone-folk equivalent of In Search of Lost Time.” – Tome to the Weather Machine

“[B]eautiful combination of sounds and soundscapes, of life yet un-introduced, known, or which we cannot visit yet. The dreamy feel of the atmospheres they create are delectable and juicy.” – Come Here Floyd

Mending Shares Emotional ‘Nichols Quarry’. Atmospheric. Epic. Surreal.