Many Mansions
Many Mansions is the ongoing recording and performance project of Shane M. Donnelly. Begun in 2005, Many Mansions has had numerous releases on cassette and cd-r over the years; however only three have officially been released on the Whitehaus Family Record so far. The project has many different faces and has evolved greatly since its inception as a lo-fi noise tape recorded on four-track cassette. Most recently, performances have been dance oriented, blending the repetitiveness of trance, the feel-good vibrations of tropicalia and the mind-beinding aspects of psychedelia. Many Mansions performs often in and around Boston, especially at the Whitehaus in Jamaica Plain, where he currently resides…
“A rapturous, vibe-filled wonderland,” -Boston Weekly Dig
“Jamaica Plain band Many Mansions plays the sort of environmental, atmospheric ambient music that you would expect to have heard on a college radio station at 3 a.m. 10 years ago. Lots of drones and slowly developing melodic ideas and drumming,” -Bostonist.com
Releases
WFR054/WFRV 001: Whitehaus Family record family record
A double vinyl LP compilation of tracks from 26 artists associated with the Whitehaus in Jamaica Plain.
that summer you moved quickly. there was no time after work to go home before the show so you pack those boots in your bag in the morning when you left the new apartment, made a call during a cigarette break and scribbled an address, a part of town you don’t know but go alone anyway, all the streets look the same but you find it, from the outside it looks like no one’s home and at the bottom of the dark stairs you panic. you almost turn and run but you don’t and the door opens for your knock and there’s a smiling face on the other side…
WFR034: Many Mansions: Return to Source!
The latest album from Many Mansions is dance oriented, blending the repetitiveness of trance, the feel-good vibrations of tropicalia and the mind-beinding aspects of psychedelia. You can hear it for free at Asteroid M Project – physical copies sold out for now.
WFR022: BLASTFEST!
The first Whitehaus Family Showcase happened on March 21, 2008 at the Cambridge YMCA Theater. Sound engineered and recorded by Shane Myrbeck.
WFR019: Many Mansions: The Dream is Changing EP
Blissed out dreamscapes for those of us with a head full of clouds. Many Mansions will take you to that safe place you’ve felt but cannot name. yldneirfytnewtrouf.
WFR012: Many Mansions: Holy Mountain Life Adventure Club
The album recorded during the historic Many Mansions Northwest States tour. Shane never returned. Spooky shamanic children, tender lullabyes, third eye cats of drone. Eating ginger lentils w/ your bliss.
WFR007: Shane Don and The Field of Light: The Many and The One
After releasing Many Mansions 1, Many Mansions 2, and Many Mansions 3 pre-w.f.r, Shane makes his first whitehaus release an album showing his guitar-playing/songwriting side. but peel your eyes, cause this burger’s rare.
WFR002: Hoot Comp, Vol. 2
they got big, they grew strong. recordings from the first whitehaus hootenannies in spring of 2007. all the hits from debbie, uncle shoe, the meadowlarks and more. plus a track from california’s trapeze and carrots at the first ever hoot feature! recorded in hi-fi, mixed, and mastered by in-haus audio engineer shane myrbeck!
WFR001: Hoot Comp, Vol. 1
the oldest of the old. talking widemouths popping, clicking, snapping; anything to keep our neighbors sleeping through the blasting, blissfull, beginning. early recordings from the first of hundreds of jamaica plain hootenannies. recorded at the legendary treehaus in 2006 by harry smith.