Critically acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitarist Christopher Mansfield, who records under the Fences moniker, has unveiled his long-awaited new album ‘Bright Soil’ on Enci Records.
Stream the new album ‘Bright Soil’ on DSPs: https://onerpm.link/BrightSoil
‘Bright Soil’ spotlights not only a time of monumental changes in Mansfield’s life, but is perhaps his most cohesive album to date.
For the LP as a whole Mansfield assembled what he refers to as his “dream band” with lifelong friend Felix Pastorius (son of Jaco Pastorius) on bass and Jeremiah Green (Modest Mouse) on drums, drums. Wesley Schultz and Ryan Lewis (Macklemore & Lewis) also add vocals and production respectively. Mansfield’s wife, Maxine, also appears.
‘Bright Soil’ arrives concurrently with the debut of a stunning new music video for the track “Werewolf Palm,” directed by Hanna Gray Hall (Spanish Love Songs, Starbenders).
Stream the Directors Cut of “Werewolf Palm” HERE.
Mansfield says, “My friend and brilliant actor Chris Bauer said “This looks like a world I couldn’t survive in unless I ate the pancakes.” I think that’s what is stunning about the video. It is a very uncomfortable world. Although I was there and remember them as merely “locations”… they truly weren’t. It would take years of convincing to tell me what we shot was only pretend. Hannah is an absolute genius and the fact the entire thing was HER alone behind a camera is almost shocking. It’s my favorite video I’ve made and I wish I could film it again and again everyday. “
Video Credits:
Film by Hannah Gray Hall
Written by FENCES and Hannah Gray Hall
Sound Design by Jonah Levine
Starring FENCES and Jonah Levine
Featuring Gatlin and Dara Eckes
Fences will be performing at Jaanaroo, A Benefit Series For Mental Health Alliance during AmericanaFest in Nashville, TN on September 21st, and has announced an in-store acoustic performance and reading at Nashville’s The Groove Records at 12pm on September 22nd, celebrating the launch of his new book of poetry ‘The Horses in Montana,’ due out in October.
