Ship Says Om — “Samadhi”

Under her ambient-folk moniker Ship Says Om, Jenny Gillespie Mason (of Sis and The Lower Wisdom) invites listeners into a weightless reverie with her track “Samadhi.” Time seems to slow as time-dilated vocal traces float above blurred piano motifs, field recordings, and delicate guitar strumming. The result is a lucid soundscape that feels both grounded in the natural world and suspended in dreamlike translucence.

Drawn from Mason’s latest release, Dream Journal—a six-track collection merging shamanic, Celtic, and global influences—“Samadhi” embodies her knack for dissolving genre boundaries. Its gentle synthesis of folk intimacy and ambient spaciousness recalls the tactile minimalism of Hiroshi Yoshimura, the organic layering of Four Tet, and the introspective poise of Bert Jansch.

As Igloo Magazine notes, Mason crafts “a delicate tapestry of fingerpicked guitar and ambient electronic flickers.” “Samadhi” is less a song than a slow breath—a meditative passage into stillness, where sound itself seems to shimmer and dissolve.