Listening Mirror
The Heart of the Sky
C36
''The Words Just Won't Come'' (excerpt)
| A1. Midnight at Teques, Storm Approaching A2. The Words Just Won't Come |
B1. Ah Pukuh is Here B2. Mixtli Sleeps (featuring Birds of Passage) |
UK-based artist Jeff Stonehouse veils himself quietly under the moniker Listening Mirror to create a vaporous, drifting wall of subtle ambiance and spirited drones. This is the heaviest of washed out texture, blissful, and sweeps across you like an autumn wind. Guitar tones stretch for miles into wisps lost in the ether, plucking keys disintegrate in the ground below your feet, field recordings blanket the expansive sound with worldly aura.
The Heart Of The Sky comes based around field recordings from a trip Stonehouse took to mexico, and therein he works to recreate the general tenor and aesthetic he found. The recordings, taken from a variety of zones -- a porch overlooking Mexico City, a shore of an inland lake at Tequesquitengo -- evoke the mood of a beautiful country.
Also, featured on the track "Mixtli Sleeps" is Alicia Merz, better known as Birds Of Passage (who just so happens to have a cassette release in the works for Bathetic, as well) adds her gorgeous vocals, helping to send what was already beautiful into an otherworldly realm of enchanting virtuosity.
The Heart Of The Sky holds up as what will be one of the year's best ambient releases; creating the kind of music that skews your entire perspective on a cloudy day, or the way you walk home in the rain.
Pro-dubbed on CHROME HIGH-BIAS TYPE-II cassettes.
Double-panel jcards printed digitally onto 230-gram matte photo paper.
...also keep your eyes peeled for Listening Mirror's upcoming split release with Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, here on Bathetic.
Edition of 100.
''Stonehouse molds an elegant and patient ambience which almost without you noticing, becomes emotionally touching... Majestic in nature, the music bears resemblance to Kyle Bobby Dunn or Zvuku perhaps.'' -- Future Sequence
''Disembodied voices waft in and out as an ominous wash of organ-like sound sweeps you into its uneasy mix. [Listening Mirror] painstakingly pieced his creations together with unusual musical methods, such as using the harmonics of a semi-acoustic guitar and processing it through a blend of treatments and effects.''-- Headphone Commute
Interview with Jeff Stonehouse at Headphone Commute.
Pro-dubbed on CHROME HIGH-BIAS TYPE-II cassettes.
Double-panel jcards printed digitally onto 230-gram matte photo paper.
...also keep your eyes peeled for Listening Mirror's upcoming split release with Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, here on Bathetic.
Edition of 100.
''Stonehouse molds an elegant and patient ambience which almost without you noticing, becomes emotionally touching... Majestic in nature, the music bears resemblance to Kyle Bobby Dunn or Zvuku perhaps.'' -- Future Sequence
''Disembodied voices waft in and out as an ominous wash of organ-like sound sweeps you into its uneasy mix. [Listening Mirror] painstakingly pieced his creations together with unusual musical methods, such as using the harmonics of a semi-acoustic guitar and processing it through a blend of treatments and effects.''-- Headphone Commute
Interview with Jeff Stonehouse at Headphone Commute.
