Mir 8 brings electroacoustic artists Andrea Belfi (drums/percussion), Werner Dafeldecker (electroncis, bass), Hilary Jeffrey (trombone) and Tim Wright (computer & electronics) together for their debut album of four cinematic tracks following an abstract narrative through panoramic landscapes.
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Andrea Belfi-drums, percussion
Werner Dafeldecker-function generators, bass
Hilary Jeffery-trombone
Tim Wright-computer, electronics
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UPC: 5609063800289
Label: Shhpuma
Catalog ID: SHH028LP
Squidco Product Code: 23827
Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2017
Country: Portugal
Packaging: LP
Recorded during 2016 and 2016 by Tim Wright, Simon Berckelman and Werner Dafeldecker.
"The debut album by MIR 8 on Shhpuma features four cinematic tracks following an abstract narrative through panoramic landscapes, masterfully produced with multi-layered hybrid structures of orchestral strings, trombone, electronics and percussion. Perihelion is a solar orbit steered by four seasoned musical voyagers.
Werner Dafeldecker has produced new forms as an integral member of Polwechsel, introducing post-minimalist shifts in the improvised and experimental scenes of Vienna, Berlin and beyond.
Hilary Jeffery played trombone in Tim Wright's early 90s UK electronica project Germ and they subsequently worked together in the "electro-metal-voodoo-jazz" group Sand, releasing three astonishing albums on Soul Jazz Records.
Andrea Belfi's drumming is a time-tested element in radical music of the last twenty years.
Together as MIR 8 these four unique musicians have created an album which combines an unusual blend of idioms without any dilution. The listener gets immersed into a genre bending soundscape of lush movie soundtrack strings, pulsating bass driven electronics, polyrhythmic tessellations and introspective melodies unwinding into deep space.
The hypnotic structures of MIR 8 unwravel through the mind as a real "cinema for the ear" inspired by Hilary Jeffery's travel through the Sahara, Andrea Belfi's percussive divings into the ocean's depths, Tim Wright's evocative journey's into twilight post-rave mind states and Werner Dafeldecker's pioneering orbits of the cosmos, up to and including the event-horizon."-Shhpuma
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Andrea Belfi "Andrea Belfi is a drummer, composer and experimental musician. Through the last twenty years he has developed a unique style of drumming, influenced by his many experiences with experimental and electronic music, rock, improv. His hypnotic rhythms and textures create immersive soundscapes for the listener to float in. He has released five solo albums and more than fifty collaborative records on labels such as ROOM40, Miasmah, Häpna, Die Schachtel, Constellation, Blue Chopsticks. He has collaborated, among others, with Mike Watt, Carla Bozulich, David Grubbs, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Nils Frahm, Greg Haines, Circuit des Yeux, Andrea Parkins, Werner Dafeldecker, Erik Skodvin, Stefano Pilia, Aidan Baker, Lori Goldston, BjNilsen. Belfi's interest in contemporary art led him to exhibit sound-art installations throughout Europe and U.S. and to collaborate with visual artists like Angela Bulloch and Aldo Tambellini. AB has performed at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Cafè Oto (London), Issue Project Room (New York), GAS festival (Göteborg) and Artplay (Moscow)." ^ Hide Bio for Andrea Belfi • Show Bio for Werner Dafeldecker "Werner Dafeldecker was born in Vienna in 1964 and studied the double bass which he plays with passion. As a musician, composer and sound artist he takes advantage of the manifold possibilities offered by electro-acoustics. His musical projects are often inspired and deduced by outside influences such as architecture, science, photography and film - partially resulting in the creation of graphical scores for various ensembles and instrumental performers. Werner also focuses on site specific projects, field recording and opposing natural and environmental sounds with synthetic variants. He has built up an extensive sound archive and created several electroacoustic pieces for radio and film. Around ninety sound-recordings are documenting his artistic framework. He held lectures and workshops presenting his work i.a. at University Bellas Artes-Madrid, Hochschule für Gestaltung-Karlsruhe, RMIT University-Melbourne and Edith Cowan University-Perth. Commissions / Exhibitions / Performances: Kammermusiktage Witten; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Berliner Festspiele Maerz Musik Festival; Sound field Festival, Chicago; Festival Wien Modern; Festival Hörgänge, Wien; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Steirischer Herbst, Graz; What is Music Festival, Australia; International Music Festival, Vancouver; LMC Festival, London; Dundee Media Festival; Ultraschall Festival, Berlin; SWR; ORF; Salzburger Festspiele; Liquid Architecture Festival, Australia; Darmstädter Ferienkurse; Serralves Festival, Porto, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Museum of Contemprary Art, Zagreb; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Gronland Kammermusikk Festival, Oslo; Festival Mikromusik, Berlin; Borealis Festival, Oslo; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Klangspuren Schwaz, Tirol; Transmediale Festival, Berlin" ^ Hide Bio for Werner Dafeldecker • Show Bio for Tim Wright "Tim Wright (1950 Ð August 4, 2013) was an American musician. He was the original bassist with Pere Ubu, but left in 1978 to join Arto Lindsay in the no wave band DNA. He stayed with the group until they disbanded in 1982. Timothy Wright was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1950. He died of cancer on August 4, 2013, aged 63." ^ Hide Bio for Tim Wright
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Track Listing:
Side A
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1. Longharmsbr>
2. Scarborough Skybr>
Side Bbr>
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1. De Orbitbr>
2. Event Horizon
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