From the breathing clouds of the living mountain emerge School of Seven Bells and their dazzling 12-inch debut, Face to Face on High Places. Benjamin Curtis, formerly of Secret Machines, leads with heliospheric guitar invocations. Bassist James Elilott (Ateleia) and drummer Joe Stickney (Rhys Chatham) provide the rhythm; twin sisters Alejandra Deheza (On! Air! Library!) and Claudia Deheza (On! Air! Library!, A Cloud Mireya) cast an irresistibly intense psychomagical spell with celestial vocal arrangements, keyboards, and transcendental songsmithing. Their sound is a dizzying whorl of pounding ecstasies, mystic lyricism, lucid dreamscaping, and mesmeric grooves. Luminous voices beckon from the far side of a mirage; whispered electronic infernos are swept away by raging torrents of percussion. Submit to School of Seven Bells, then ascend atop a thousand cyclones to a plain of infinite bliss.