Portal by Jon Mitchell

Portal is my first LP. It downloaded into my head over the course of a night of rock and roll mayhem on a Mendocino County mountaintop.

In the summer of 2013, some friends of mine threw a festival and invited the band I was in to come play. We played as the sun went down, and things only got weirder from there.

By morning, I had 11 songs — named and in order — about what had happened to all of us that night. It took them a few more months to develop, but the names, key lines, and basic sounds were all there that bright morning. With the help of my friend and drummer, Kirk, my muse and collaborator, Root, my old friend, Mike, my new friend, Stephen, and a few other trusty friends on the ground, I released Portal on February 25, 2014. We first played it live at the release party in Oakland on May 3.

I wanna get telepathic with you.