Mirror Music Michael A. Muller

• 1Mirror 103:22
• 2Mirror 204:56
• 3Mirror 303:37
• 4Mirror 405:22
• 5Mirror 504:02
• 6Mirror 604:01
• 7Mirror 705:09
• 8Mirror 803:36
• 9Mirror 903:27
• 10Mirror 1003:26
• Total Runtime40:58

Info for Mirror Music

Michael A. Muller, multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of Balmorhea, has immersed himself in composing and released his DG debut Mirror Music. Reflection is the theme of this album. Ten tracks based on Muller's ambient compositions were created in collaboration with eleven artists. Muller wrote them on the Mellotron, an Oberheim Two-Voice synthesiser and a Rhodes organ and shared them with the musicians, each taking a part in a particular piece. Mirror Music opens with the tactile, open-tuned twelve-string guitar of Danny Paul Grody, segues into the iridescent pedal steel guitar of Chuck Johnson and leads into the vocal atmospherics of Vestals. This is followed by Jonathan Sielaff's bass clarinet and Ilyas Ahmed's guitar, the lonely desert sounds of Douglas McCombs from Tortoise, the shimmering rhythms of Indonesian-Australian percussionist Rama Parwata, the modular synthesiser reflections of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, the velvety vocals of Hania Rani, the soft sound modulations of Jon Porras and finally the soulful cello of Clarice Jensen.

"On Mirror Music, Michael creates a world that feels to me both familiar and alien, like I'm wandering the savannahs on a distant planet. While listening, I spend half the time wondering, 'what is that sound?' and the other half asking myself, 'what is this feeling?'. — Hrishikesh Hirway, Song Exploder

Michael A. Muller, mellotron, synthesizer, Rhodes, acoustic guitar, electric bass
Danny Paul Grody, 12-string acoustic guitar, synthesizer
Chuck Johnson, steel guitar
Vestals, vocals
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma,synthesizer
Ilyas Ahmed, guitar
Jonathan Sielaff, bass clarinet
Douglas McCombs, bass
Rama Parwata, percussion

Michael A. Muller
is a multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles, best known for his work with Balmorhea (Deutsche Grammophon) which he co-founded in 2006.

He began his dedicated solo works in 2019 with Lower River, a textural and meditative debut album that toured as a multi-disciplinary exhibit from Berlin to Los Angeles. The collaborative Lower River Reworks followed, featuring Bing & Ruth and Masayoshi Fujita among others. Since, he has created site-specific work at artist residencies and widened his output by placing songs and creating scores for dozens of ads, films and documentaries, as well as reworking material ranging from pianists Víkingur Ólafsson, Michael Price and Daigo Hanada to the Belgian black metal group Oathbreaker.

Muller is currently working on a new solo album, as well as scoring several film and multi-media projects.

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