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Mirror

Mirror Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Pop

    Location Los Angeles, British Columbia, CA

    Profile Views: 42549

    Last Login: 10/29/2010

    Member Since 6/22/2006

    Website www.mirror.fm

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .... .. .. ...... .. .... .. .. ...... .. .... .. .. ...... .. .... .. .. ...... .. .... .. .. .. .......... ..First launched at the New Forms Festival three years ago, Thomas Anselmi's multi-media project ..MIRROR.. is now releasing an album of music. ..MIRROR..'s songs are the soundtrack to immersive multi-performer shows that combine electronic pop music with theatricality and live video production. .. ..MIRROR.. introduces chanteuse Laure-Elaine, crooner Ronan Boyle and teen actress Frances Lawson who perform alongside a star-studded cast of collaborators – including Depeche Mode front man Dave Gahan, who sings "Nostalgia," and Andy Warhol superstar Joe Dallesandro (..Trash, Heat..) who co-wrote and performs a monologue on "City Lights.".. ..Produced by Vincent Jones, the album also features guitarist Knox Chandler, (Siouxsie And The Banshees, Pyschedelic Furs), co-composer/arranger Haig Armen, and legendary Bowie pianist Mike Garson... ..The aesthetic of ..MIRROR.. is deeply rooted in the sounds and sights of erotic art and cinema. One can hear in the music the influence of film composers such as Francis Lai (..Love Story.., ..Bilitis..) and Angelo Badalamenti (..Twin Peaks.., .. Blue Velvet..).  The use of video is both strange and familiar, playing on our nostalgia for the iconic imagery of classic Hollywood and the stagey drama of television variety shows. .. ..A new direction for the pop spectacle, ..MIRROR.. uses live and recorded media to create a kind of pyschosexual postmodern cabaret.  By embracing the artificial and sentimental, ..MIRROR.. reflects the transitory, spectacular world of endless commodities, sex, advertising, and tabloid violence. Ballads of love and longing disguise the themes of cultural decay and apocalypse... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. ..

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  • Influences

    Francis Lai, Michel Houellebecq, Serge Gainsbourg, Badalamenti, Balthus, Guy Bourdin, Dr. Dre,Fassbinder, Giorgio Moroder, Laibach, Bernard Blier, Kraftwerk, Vangelis, Massive Attack, Tricky, The Modernettes, PiL, France Gall, YMO, Nico, Guy de Maupassant, Oui, Air, Picabia, Helmut Newton, Sex Pistols, Abba, Douglas Sirk, Jesper Just, Lou Reed, Martin Amis, Suicide.

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