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