Joseph Brunelle :: “Round To It” - No Mountain Records
Originally from Longview, TX, and now based in Nashville, TN, singer-songwriter Joseph Brunelle released a monumentally mesmerizing album entitled “Round To It” in 1981 and has since entered the private press, collector circles, and underground worship like most of its kind. Stirring the sophisticated spiritualism of atmospheric acoustics and structural significance in a way that has managed to echo throughout the harmonious hallways of the mind over the last four decades, Brunelle’s brilliance is nothing short of a melodic miracle. Its cumbersome core is consistently complex while simultaneously testing the waters with a tonal appreciation for the greater good. The musician manifests the quality and fundamental focus it takes to unite poetry and musicianship in a swift yet soothingly unique approach. Surfing through the sonic alphabet and aphrodisiac-based appetite for construction and cosmic connection, “Round To It” intimidates the heart by pulling the system’s strings with great force and optimism for an ovation in standing silence. While the material has a perfectly balanced climate of calming yet crucial coexistence within its peers, Brunelle carefully captured the essence of his storytelling seance, like most artists and their ultimate goals of vision and costly grandeur, his atmospheric abilities recall the reverence and docile nature of some of the most long-lasting music, once it has been discovered that is.
Recorded at the Passing Car Studio in Midland, Texas, between 1980 and 1981, during the great boom in the oil industry, which eventually led to a highly significant impact on the city's economy, population, and general landscape as the decade continued moving forward. “Round To It” expands on the exciting evaluation and unlimited universal unity of connecting with something bigger than you and, like catching lightning in a bottle, preferably glass, Brunelle conquers the electrifying existence of being a songstress during a revolutionary time and place in music, no matter your location, across the album’s eleven tracks of well polished, poetic pearls. With numbers like “Highways Of Your Mind,” “Angelina (Down Mexico Way),” and the album’s historically harmonious title track, a lovely longing possesses the performance and privacy of the music by gazing into the volumeless void of hope, harmony and the ever-expanding depths of the human condition.
