On Uranian Void, Jessika Kenney channels centuries of mystic poetry and chant into a luminous meditation on dissolution and transcendence. Known for her transformative voice and cross-cultural devotion to Javanese and Persian musical traditions, Kenney composes a set of seveninterlinked movements where ancient verse meets contemporary experimentation. The album opens with Her Sword I, setting a 12th-century Persian ghazal by Farid Uddin Attar. Against resonant metallophones, gender, and kendhang, Kenney’s voice emerges as bothsupplicant and guide—unfolding the text’s vision of love as annihilation. Musicians Jon Rea, Anne Stebinger, Blake McDowell, and Jarrad Powell contribute glimmering gamelan timbres, recordedlive to preserve their raw breath and decay. Each piece unfolds as a ritual of transformation: Turning Inward contracts the ensemble around single tones and overtone resonance, while Sarira Tunggal and Pamor draw from Javanese mystical poetry attributed to Sunan Kalijaga, tracing the unity of body, sound, and cosmic origin.