Band Photos by Ivan Leon Cerullo (Rolling Stones, Muse, Rem, Ennio Morricone and others)
Reviews:
-Rock Sound
"..Raffinati ed eleganti, i Mirrors seguono la strada del pop d'oltremanica: Beatles nel DNA e Oasis e Radiohead in testa. Le canzoni, cantate in inglese, affascinano con il loro incedere delicato e dolce. Sono loro stessi a nominare anche Coldplay e Travis, ma per la timbrica vocale mi è venuto in mente Lloyd Cole.."
-Rockerilla
"...le tracks raggiungono stati di grazia pop nella mirabile 'Today' e sincera spontaneità vocale in 'Do you know how I feel inside?'..."
-Tutto Musica
'..Sette brani per i milanesi The Mirrors. Musica d'atmosfera, sulla scia del brit pop. Di grande effetto la voce del cantante..'
-Rumore
"...ci sono due pezzi che valgono ed il cantante ha una voce interessante..."
-Album del Mese: RockSound (Agosto 05)
"Time beats only once continua la strada intrapresa, risultando più completo e più complesso; gli input musicali non si fermano alla terra d'Albione ma attraversano l'oceano fino a raggiungere gli Stati Uniti. Le composizioni, cantate in inglese, hanno un respiro internazionale e giocano abilmente tra pop e rock, senza tralasciare momenti intimisti o atmosfere più briose e animate. Il quartetto milanese riesce nella difficile operazione di fare un prodotto che suoni europeo ma che non rinnega le origini italiane, di comporre musica che si appoggia sui canoni del pop melodico senza però scadere nella banalità o in paludi troppo melense. I Mirrors non si fermano comunque qui, dato che tra poco è annunciata l'uscita di un nuovo lavoro.
-RockStar
"... Dopo alcuni Ep d'assaggio i giovanissimi Mirrors affrontano il vero debutto con un doppio cd, per la durata di novanta minuti. I punti di riferimento sono chiari, riletti con rispetto ("Meggy flies with me") e melodia ("Ramona"). Bella la ghost track. Attendiamoli alla prossima puntata. Lo meritano ..."
-Mucchio Selvaggio
'...possiamo indicare alcuni brani azzeccati come “Meggy Flies With Me” o “Time Beats Only Once”...'
-Losing Today
"Questo maxi singolo tratto dal primo 'Time beats Only Once' ci dà un saggio delle discrete capacità di questa formazione milanese che guarda un pò oltremanica e un pò agli states, con una bella dose di attitudine pop, ma senza rinunciare a qualche spigolosità. Così, se per certi versi la 'Deliriumadelica' messa in apertura può ricordare i Calexico e la successiva 'Nice' è più vicina a un guitar - pop in salsa british, la terza Martyr's Kiss è la più coinvolgente, coi suoi soffici tappeti sintatici e una vocalità che forse in questi frangenti trova il suo habitat ideale. Riuscita anche la 'Time Beas Only Once' in versione acustica, mentre un dinamico elettro - pop rende il conclusivo 'Time Beats Only Once (Part.III)' il pezzo più catchy di un lotto più che valido."
The Mirrors are a rock quartet formed in 2002 of Italian origins but Uk/Usa adopted. The founding member is Marco. We play rock and psychedelic pop with influences from the Seventies, the Eighties and the Nineties. The average age of the band is 25. During 2003 arrived Andy at the guitar and later Matteo on the bass one year after. During 2007 Emanuele was at the drums. This is the first established The Mirrors line-up.
From 2003 to 2009 we recorded 6 self produced among single cds, eps, albums and double cds. We have received good reviews on national magazines & journals (RockStar, Tutto Musica, Rockerilla, RockSound, Rumore, Mucchio Selvaggio, Corriere della Sera, InSound, Repubblica, Freequency, Tribe Magazine, Losing Today) and our music has received a positive reaction on national radios (Radio Rai 1).
The first Ep recorded has been 'Nothing at all but stars', that has been valuated in a really good way from the critics.
'Time beats only once' was selected as one of the best 12 albums of the year as 'Record of the month' by RockSound magazine during summer of 2005.
We have played alongside some national and international artists including Andy Fletcher dj (Depeche Mode), Peter Hook dj (Joy Division, New Order), Hinkel (Fools Garden), Velvet, Daniele Groff, Simone Cristicchi, Teresa De Sio, Raiz, Gatto Panceri, L’Aura.
During '04/'05 we competed in many national awards to have a feedback from the critics. In every project we have entered we've been ranked among the top 10/15 indpendent artists between lot of thousands in Italy (Progetto Demo, Jestrai Rock, Roxy Bar, Sziget - Road to Budapest, Basificando Vol.2, Destinazione Neapolis, Beto Music Live, Cantiere Sonoro, Rock Contest, The Best of Demo).
At Comune di Brescia awards we won a five hundred euro prize awarded by BMG and Yamaha and ranked first in the Rock category thanks to 'Meggy flies with me'.
Within a year of the band forming we ware selected by the Italian actor Giorgio Pasotti for a music project thanks to one of our songs called 'Do you know how I feel inside?'. We have released some of our material as part of national and international compilations (Hope: Love is the Answer, Rumore, Indipendente, Midem '06 & '07, RossoAlice, IPO).
At the end of 2005, Demo on Radio Rai 1 aired a special show about the band.
At the end of this year Edel released the I-Ndipendente compilation, featuring us among the best Italian indie bands of 2005 (So:ho feat. Morgan with Fragole Infinite by Alberto Fortis, Marco Fabi feat. Simone Cristicchi). Great Illusion was the most sold song and the most voted by public of the compilation. We received a price from Giordano Sangiorgi (president Mei) and Paolo Franchini (president Edel/Pmi).
We were selected by Demo by Radio Rai 1 as The Best emerging artists of 2005, who also used our song 'Face the spider' as a jingle for the program for two months (over 30 airplays). In this period we featured with some national artists (Fiorello, Cristina Donà).
Our album 'The Great Illusion' - in collaboration with the help of Avinash Ganesh (Nirvana by Salvatores, a film with Christopher Lambert) - was released on iTunes Italy by our label Echophonic & Piperine in April. During one week it was the 4th highest selling Rock album and the 26th overall highest seller among artists like David Gilmour, Genesis, David Bowie, U2, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Bruce Springsteen and many others.
In May we were the only Italian band that played two gigs in Liverpool as part of the IPO Festival 2006. One show was at The Cavern Club and the other at Lennons. Our song If also features on the IPO compilation Vol.9 including Roger Joseph Manning Jr (collaborated with Ringo Starr, Morrisey, Jamiroquai, Air, Beck, Green day, Jet, Suede, Vines). Vivimilano by Corriere della Sera dedicated an article to the band.
'If' has been judged as one of the best 150 songs of 2006 (between 15'000) from the International Songwriting Competition that included in the jury Robert Smith (The Cure), Peter Hook (Joy Division, New Order), Frank Black (The Pixies) and Chris Hillman (The Byrds).
We have recorded our first music video of the song If directed from Leone Balduzzi by Kosanostra (Planet Funk, Elisa, Morgan/Pagani, Tiromancino, Meg, Mario Venuti) at Villa Escandar (Morgan, Vibrazioni, Tiziano Ferro).
This video had been shown @ L'Unione fa la Musica to support a new Italian music law with Romano Prodi (Prime Minister of Italy), Paola Maugeri (Mtv), Beppe Carletti (Nomadi), Caterina Caselli, Claudio Bisio, La Crus, Deasonika.
The video is in the Indipendent Rock VideoStory by All Music Tv, Mei & Kataweb with national artists like Afterhours, Verdena, Carmen Consoli, Velvet and others.
It has also been put on a national DVD in every Italian news stand thanks to RoxyBar by Red Ronnie (with the exclusive interviews with Tara Gandhi, Donovan, Ian Anderson by Jethro Tull and Patti Smith).
If video was among the only 6 italian indipendent music videos during 2006 to receive 2 nominations at PVI and PIVI, national video music prices in Italy (major artist were Subsonica, Jovanotti, Gianna Nannini).
The international magazine Shots dedicated us some good words about If music video. The video has been showed at 'O Curt Festival with Loretta Rossi Stuart, Marco Parente, Perturbazione and at Venice Airport Festival with White Rose Movement and The Bluetones.
We won the InSound Magazine’s Critique Prize during the DbMusicZone contest organized with the collaboration of Emi Publishing, presented by Diego Spagnoli (engineer Vasco Rossi). We got a double page article on the magazine.
Thanks to Channel war we won the Rosso Alice - Telecom awards organized by H2o Bmg/Sony receiving the price from Linus (artistic director of Radio DeeJay and Capital). We got a distribution contract for one of our songs and we have been on a split ep with Pink. Tribe Magazine published an interview to the band.
We were selected among 10 best Italian indie bands by Demo (Radio Rai 1 & Rai International) for Lamezia Demo Mei Fest 2006 organized by Ruggero Pegna playing in front of 25’000 people with Teresa De Sio and Raiz by Almanegretta.
In this period when The Mirrors & Orange (Nongiovane by Mtv) gag together come out The Orange Mirrors.. you can find some rare files on the net about this side jam project.
During June 2007 we published with our own label Echophonic the split The Big Eye with Volker Hinkel, guitarist/founder member of Fools Garden. Cover painting is a work made by Andy (Bluvertigo) from its artistic factory Flu-On.
The whole has been selected by Steve Zuckerman (2 Grammy Awards for the production of Les Paul & Friends with Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Sting) for the humanitarian project Hope: Love is the Answer. Between the artists you can find also Robert Fripp by King Crimson, Richie Havens & Joe Cerisano, Christopher Cross.
The whole has been aired in during '07 on CBS Jack Fm 101.1 New York radio to promote Hope: Love is the Answer project produced by Steve Zuckerman.
Through has been selected by Andre Doucette (30 Seconds to Mars) for the major Canadian/American film Shred featuring Tom Green (Saturday Night Live, Road Trip, Charlie's Angels) & Dave England (Jackass) directed by David Mitchell.
'The Whole' & 'If' received 2 Mentions from Billboard Awards.
The Mirrors made the soundtrack of the 35mm short film 'Men at work' by Fausto Caviglia in which there are featured Evan Dando by Lemonheads and Men at work. Got a Nomination at Circuito Off Venezia Film Festival and selected for Odense Film Festival & Budapest Film Festival, plus Mtv & Qoob screenings.
The Mirrors played at the DigiFestival - Festival della Creatività 2007 in Florence. Among other acts there were Andy Fletcher dj (Depeche Mode) and Peter Hook dj (Joy Division, New Order).
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