MIRROR CD (Heemann & Chalk)

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MIRROR -SOLARIS 
CD
IDEA 2004 

IDEA is proud to present the first official CD release by Christoph Heemann  &
Andrew Chalk's MIRROR.  Solaris is quite a departure from previous albums and
it is the most realized compostion of Mirror to date. Solaris retains the
warmth and ambient beauty of the previous recordings -- Like field recordings
from another world.  truely stellar...   Packaged in miniature
album style jacket designed by Tom Recchion of Cortical Foundation/LAFMS. 

MIRROR live in Japan with Jim O'rourke:
http://www.faderbyheadz.com/index-e.html    ;

Touching Extremes:

This is quite particular, as - maybe for the first time in Mirror's
history - there is practically no droning in the 41 minutes of the
recording. "Solaris" is a silent, sparse landscape made of strange detuned
piano notes, small percussive touches, long absences and natural
reverberations. The cover presents Chalk and Heemann walking in the
countryside, completely alone: this photo gives a good idea of what this
music is. It's Mirror in their spirit, though not via the usual sounds
you're accustomed to; their depth and sensitive humanity is just as strong
and - at the same time - beautifully frail, as always.--Massimo Ricci
  
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Brendan Walls_Cassia fistula
CD
idea 2005

 Brendan Walls - Cassia Fistula CD (idea 2005)
An out-of-nowhere release from an intriguing 
one-man studio project, "Cassia Fistula" is Sydney 
based Brendan Walls' debut solo outing. Utilizing
prepared and found sound objects- Brendan uses
homemade machines to create this music without
the use of  digital technology or effects processing.
Walls has invented a concentrated, enveloping and
transcendent electroacoustic sound palette.
"Cassia Fistula" comprises of three distinctive 
tonal explorations that are truly hallucinatory.
Tumultuous and shifting yet gargantuan and 
immovable, these works create a state where 
movement and stasis co-exist. Unfolding the
monumental within the intimate, the results are
beautiful, surrealist, organic blocks of sound. 
A man to watch. CD in miniature gatefold jacket.
Design by Tina Frank & Judith Scheikl  
 
REVIEWS:

THE WIRE:

"Cassia Fistula recalls Rafael toral's most recent work in it's explorations of
fragile tonalities freefalling like atomized particles..."

VITAL WEEKLY: 

BRENDAN WALLS - CASSIA FISTULA (CD by Idea Records)
Sydney-based Walls releases his debut solo disc Cassia Fistula, a 
work of electro-static energy and vibrance. The disc is split into 
three sections, raging with stealth, soaring noise frequencies. 
Drawing from high pitch tones and angular drones, this newcomer is 
working with Oren Ambarchi (Ritornell, Staubgold) whose minimal 
compositions and collaboration work are evident on the mix work in 
sections one and three. Working with defective hi-fi equipment and 
homemade electronic devices, Walls has developed a trip-like 
exploration of deep, organic (cassia fistula - a 10 meter tree) 
sound-sphere, not for the passive listener. This is not for 
relaxation, this is not click/cut/glitch, this is not dark ambient. 
This is discovery, almost improvised, in unfolding beauty, its nature 
warns of the dark side of the power behind its ornamental exterior. 
(TJN) VITAL WEEKLY
 
ELEKT NOIZ (Japan) by Daisuke Suzuki     "Cassia Fistula might be a prayer..."

ANGBASE:

While some are stylists or number crunchers, and some use a computer to achieve
a salon-like efficiency, Brendan just cuts hair. And while he might have a pink
tank top on or a particular fixation on flowers (the Cassia Fistula being both
his email, label name, and name of his first-born), he really is a barber
through and through. And next time, I'll go to him, and have him hone down on
my head, buffing it into a milky pearl of skull, the hair a puddle below.
www.angbase.com


RECKLESS:

Brendan Walls' 3 piece, 48 minute and mind-shaking masterpiece utilizes various
found sound-objects and prepared homemade machines that organically, without
the aid of digitalness or processed effects, destroys reality by exaggerating
it and then replants into our consciousness by spacing it out over the borders
of recognition and comfort. These pieces swarm over you and expand in you in a
surprisingly warm way. The static expression is complemented by an emotional
dynamic that seems to breathe and come to life while staying close to your ears
and mind. This is completely APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!! --Brett Grossman

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