Mirrors in Mirrors, by Midori Hirano

Mirrors in Mirrors

by Midori Hirano

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	1.	Close to Life 03:25
	2.	Forgotten 01:56
	3.	Mountains 02:59
	4.	Beginning 03:20
	5.	Sleeping Under The Raintrees 05:24
	6.	Afterglow 04:05
	7.	Mirrors in Mirrors 02:23

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If you stand between two mirrors facing each other, you’re faced with a curious and unique visual sensation – endlessly repeating reflections bounce off one another into an infinite, spiraling prism. Any movement from your vantage point derails the point of focus, and transforms the illusion in real-time before your eyes. Light bends, and with it, colours slip in and out of dominance, in an Escherism of endless space, despite no change to the dimensions you inhabit in that ever so concrete space between two mirrors.

Midori Hirano speaks of “waning lights” and “edges blending into fog” as some of the sensory indicators inspiring Mirrors In Mirrors – her debut on Daisart – and these Impressionistic sentiments are deeply imbued within Hirano’s delicate, restrained compositions. The hallmarks of modern classical, electronica and ambient are adopted as an assemblage to explore nuanced tones and techniques less dictated by those stylistic underpinnings, perhaps somewhere hovering between – but never too far away – keenly aware of form and function.

An emphasis upon the piano is an immediate point of reference for placing Hirano’s work within a broader context, but important to point out is the subtle and careful use of synthesizers and effects processing throughout the record – sometimes providing a more detailed background terrain, sometimes taking centre stage. Whichever instrument she turns her hands to, Hirano has crafted a record with enough dedicated focus and space to allow the listener to immerse oneself in her devised temporal expanse, an Impressionistic liminal space of Mirrors in Mirrors.

Recorded in Berlin, Germany 2017-18

All tracks written, produced, recorded and mixed
by Midori Hirano.

Mastered by Sean McCann of Recital Program

Artwork by ruttens-wille

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released March 5, 2019

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