MIRROR - Front Row Center LP @ 210+ VBR - Die Stadt, Germany, 2000/01
The breathtakingly beautiful collaborations between Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann as Mirror have resulted in three superb deep listening / tonal drift records in a little under a year, with "Eye of The Storm" for Streamline, "Ringstones" for Some Fine Legacy, and this for Die Stadt.While their production techniques revolve around blurring the sonic edges of arcane source material (highway field recordings, bowed metals, and tape machine backmasking), Mirror allows more of the source material to speak on its own with extended notes from orchestral warm-ups.
They have layered hazy passages for lengthy french horns, warm strings, and a handful of their own mysterious drones within a slow building composition. If you've fallen for Chalk's work in the past, this album will certainly impress you also.
Stunning work.
- Aquarius Records, San Francisco
posted by Over The Moon at
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Are any of Panhuysen's available works comparable to "long string installations"?...wanted to hear that but missed out.
Don't fret -- I'll reupload the Panhuysen at some point, maybe within the next week or two.
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