Ruth Mascelli – Non-Stop Healing Frequency

There’s a sense of starry-eyed wonder on Non-Stop Healing Frequency, Ruth Mascelli’s second solo album under his own name.

Many of the record’s 11 tracks use a simple mix of mid-tempo drum machine beats and sparkly synths to create constellations of sound. It’s as if Mascelli made these pieces while lying down in a field late at night, staring at the sky.

Take the plainly-titled “Everyday Life”; small waves and whirrs gradually surround the slow keyboard line, as Mascelli travels the spaceways in a manner not far from Flaming Lips’s Pink Floyd-inspired journeys.

But Non-Stop Healing Frequency is more than just a celestial trip. That’s because Mascelli balances his outward excursions with poignant, beautifully-sung ballads.

It’s certainly no coincidence that the album’s most moving piece is a cover of a Judee Sill tune called “Lopin’ Along Thru the Cosmos.” The fact that this comes right before songs with names such as “Interior Castle” and “Mind War” suggests that for Mascelli, human emotions are as spellbinding as the universe’s outer limits.

As he puts it in the album notes, he’s “exploring ways people try to make sense of an insane world”—a quest as applicable to our inner spaces as to the world around us.

Tracklist:
A1 The Gateway
A2 History
A3 Etheric Double
A4 Lopin' Along Thru The Cosmos
A5 Interior Castle
B1 Mind War
B2 Civilian Life
B3 Happy Hour
B4 Macrocosm
B5 Transactional Universe
B6 Psychic Surgery