Mirror
Some Days It Rains All Night
**Edition of 350 copies on transparent vinyl** La Scie Dorée presents a new album by Mirror (Christoph Heemann and Andrew Chalk) recorded at the Loft, Cologne. Christoph Heemann, with co-founder Achim P. Li Khan, was active in the celebrated group Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa in the 80's. In the mid-90's, Christoph concentrated on his solo career while collaborating with artists such as Jim O'Rourke and Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots) in the Mimir project. He also worked with Masami Akita (Merzb…
Eye Of The Storm
The second Mirror album Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann produced together in 1999, originally released as a limited edition vinyl LP, is now available on CD for the first time. Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann think that it is a very boring idea to try to find descriptions for their music (and most music in general). Why is the music there after all? If they wanted to make their artistic statements in language, they would work as writers. They like to say it in sound, so if you want to find…
Solaris
Andrew Chalk and Christoph Heemann, the core members of Mirror, have churned out countless expensive, gorgeously packaged LPs in highly countable numbers (typically under 400). The duo’s strategy has baffled me almost as much as it’s put me off, because their atmospheric music could easily find a much wider audience than the cabal of record collectors who are seduced by the bogus romance of self-imposed scarcity. Solaris departs from Mirror’s usual MO; it’s their first CD (albeit one packaged …
Ringtones
Mirror is the pairing of Christoph Heemann and Andrew Chalk, an accomplished sound and visual artist whose catalogue has seen rapid expansion in recent years. Recorded in 1998, Ringstones presents two long drone pieces of immense beauty and dimension. The liner notes (words by "Sarban" from 1951) speak of a great silence suddenly encountered by a traveller who finds himself alone on the moor. These words find their perfect compliment in these…
Nightwalkers
Newly re-mastered CD version makes available (again) one of Heemann and Chalk's most peculiar, early aural odysseys. For their fifth project, Nightwalkers, Mirror teamed-up with Andreas Martin (Mimir member and multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire) for a set of pieces that could well be their most adventurous and bizarre still yet. The result is an incredibly mysterious series of turbulent and richly spacious explorations that is curiously active, but at the same moment appears suspended in time…
Still Valley
Re-release of the LP version of "Still Valley", including one extra track. One of Mirror's finest works recorded by Andrew Chalk (Ora, Ferial Confine), Christoph Heemann (HNAS) and Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth, Gastr Del Sol, Illusion Of Safety) between May 2002 - January 2005. This album is a beautiful study of slowly changing drones, like a film shot in slow motion. One noticeable difference between this and other quiet Mirror affairs is the presence of oscillating pulses. These analog tones occa…