Where Leaves Block the Sun

With Where Leaves Block The Sun, Bevel follows through with the promise that was made with last year's debut Turn The Furnace On. The new full-length is principal songwriter Via Nuon's electric pastoral folk music, which comes across like a symphony of one in the forest as Nuon's comrades' skills are channeled like the limbs of a marionette dancing about through the cycle of the day. Though difficult to describe in sound, one might compare Bevel to the ghostly songs of Nick Drake with a light Cambodian accent.

Co-produced, engineered and mixed with Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble, Lofty Pillars and Simon Joyner), Where Leaves Block the Sun corrals some of Chicago's best players, including Fred Lonberg-Holm (Peter Brotzmann Tentent, John Zorn and Light Box Orchestra), Ryan Hembrey (Edith Frost, Shannon Wright and Pinetop Seven), Jason Adasiewicz (Central Falls), Deanna Varagona (Lambchop), Mick Turner (The Dirty Three, Bonnevill), Jessica Billey (Bonnevill), and Scott Tuma (Souled American). With the help of his friends, and all while stepping out from the shadows of his other bands Drunk and Manishevitz, Nuon has made another beautiful work of understated beauty and subtle personality.