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Midori Hirano - Close to Life
From the album “Mirrors in Mirrors”

Release date: 5th March, 2019
Pre-order “Mirrors in Mirrors” here: https://daisart.bandcamp.com
© Daisart / daisart.info

From the liner notes:

If you stand between two mirrors facing each other, you’re faced with a curious and unique visual sensation – endlessly repeating reflections bounce off one another into an infinite, spiralling prism. Any movement from your vantage point derails the point of focus, and transforms the illusion in real-time before your eyes. Light bends, and with it, colours slip in and out of dominance, in an
Escherism of endless space, despite no change to the dimensions you inhabit in that ever so concrete space between two mirrors.

Midori Hirano speaks of “waning lights” and “edges blending into fog” as some of the sensory indicators inspiring Mirrors In Mirrors – her debut on Daisart – and these Impressionistic sentiments are deeply imbued within Hirano’s delicate, restrained compositions. The hallmarks of modern classical, electronica and ambient are adopted as an assemblage to explore nuanced tones and techniques less dictated by those stylistic underpinnings, perhaps somewhere hovering between – but never too far away – keenly aware of form and
function.

An emphasis upon the piano is an immediate point of reference for placing Hirano’s work within a broader context, but important to point out is the subtle and careful use of synthesisers and effects processing throughout the record – sometimes providing a more detailed background terrain, sometimes taking centre stage. Whichever instrument she turns her hands to, Hirano has crafted a record with enough dedicated focus and space to allow the listener to immerse oneself in her devised temporal expanse, an Impressionistic liminal space of Mirrors in Mirrors.


Written, produced, recorded and mixed by Midori Hirano in Berlin, Germany 2017-18. 
Mastered by Sean McCann of Recital Program.



“Mirrors in Mirrors” comes in a first edition of 200 x 12inch 145gm black vinyl (incl. download) with Pantone printed inner and outer
sleeves designed by Jeroen Wille and Rudd Ruttens [ruttens-wille].

Midori Hirano - Close To Life

~ IIKKI 009 ~

music : The Humble Bee & Offthesky
photography : Nieves Mingueza
album/book : All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains
duration : 42.18 mn
date : July 2019

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Jason Corder: vibes, arrangement, mixing, mastering
Craig Tattersall : piano, guitar, vibes, synths, tape loops
Cody Yantis : sax
Julie Slater : viola
Rin Howell : voice
Jiah Shin : cello
Esther Hernandez : flute

Mastered by Jason Corder
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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edition : 
vinyl : limited to 300 copies hand numbered 
cd : limited to 200 cd (glass mastered) hand numbered
book : limited to 300 copies hand numbered + hand stamped

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pre-order : June 17th, 2019 / official release : July 15th, 2019

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Links :
https://www.offthesky.com/
https://www.leavings.co.uk/
http://www.nievesmingueza.com/
https://www.iikki-books.com/

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Structures from Silence

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