MIRROR NIGHTS DRONE LP CHRISTOPH HEEMANN+ANDREW CHALK-DRONE-ELECTRONIC-HANDMADE

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MIRROR

 NIGHTS LP

Three Poplars 

signed / handmade cover

Limited edition: 382/400 copies

Rare limited edition original issue of this collaborative project of Christoph Heemann and Andrew Chalk coming in beautiful handmade cover, signed by the artists.

Some info on the release: Rare original issue, released in Uk back in 2002 on the great Three Poplars label (Ora, William Basinski, Daisuke Suzuki, Brendan Walls, etc.). Mirror started up sometime around the late nineties and laid their first masterpiece (and still my favourite) Eye of the Storm onto vinyl in 1999. For five solid years to follow Mirror would release about two dozen albums, maintaining an aesthetic of meticulously hand crafted packages - that are an absolute pleasure to hold and gaze upon. The music sometimes dark and brooding while other times ethereal, but always stark, bare, minimal drone.

Christoph Heemann has recorded under his own name, with the tape music group H.N.A.S., and with many collaborators in alternative rock, soundtrack production and visual arts. Heemann's early favorites included Van Dyke Parks, and offbeat experimentalists like American West Coast radicals The Residents, Tuxedomoon, Chrome, MX-80 Sound and Renaldo and the Loaf. Though his hometown featured some notable experimental rock groups (like Rufus Zuphall and Necronomicon), Heemann was largely unaware of them and of the larger "Krautrock" movement until introduced to it via British or American friends. Largely self-taught in electronic equipment, Heemann started out as a "non-musician" with acquaintance Achim P. Li Khan. The duo's influences at the time included Chrome, Jac Berrocal (France) and Nurse With Wound. These activities finally led to the creation of the "Faust"-influenced unit "H.N.A.S." (i.e. Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, roughly "No Deer allowed on the Sofa") after meeting up with Steven Stapleton from the like-minded Nurse With Wound. The duo's first step on the record-producing market were two self-produced samplers (released on their own "Dom"-Label) Ohrensausen and Ohrenschrauben. Featured various artists like P16.D4, Organum, H.N.A.S., and Nurse With Wound.

After disbanding both went into different directions. Heemann's new projects included numerous collaborations with Edward Ka-Spel (from The Legendary Pink Dots) with whom he produced "Kata-Climici-China-Doll" and later worked together in the band "Mimir", composed half-and-half of H.N.A.S. and Legendary Pink Dots. He also worked with the German musician/performer Limpe Fuchs, and with the U.S.'s Jim O'Rourke. Mirror, a duo with established English drone musician Andrew Chalk was a very fruitful collaboration with many releases, often initially appearing in limited, hand-made editions before being reissued in more widely available form. This unit ceased to exist around 2005, although a handful of unreleased recordings are still scheduled to be issued. Heemann has also worked with David Tibet from "Current 93" and was a semi-steady member of that group during the late 1990s. In Camera, another duo project with Af Ursin's Timo Van Luyck was started in 2004 and has produced four albums so far, the self-titled first album (Some fine legacy), Open Air (Robot), Rumours (DOM BW) and Frampton comes alive (La Scie Doree) presenting yet another facet of Heemann's ideas of textural electroacustica, this time with a focus on improvisation. Heemann also worked as a producer and engineer on albums by artists such as Keiji Haino, Charlemagne Palestine, Organum and Pantaleimon. As a visual artist Heemann has created album sleeves for Jim O'Rourke, The Teargarden, The Aeolian String Ensemble, Edward Ka-spel and Limpe Fuchs amongst others.

Condition: Vinyl lies in mint condition, looks super clean and plays perfectly, while cover lies in excellent- shape, with light bending at the opening (see picture).

Tracklist

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