Mirror Stage (‘Comet Mist’ Vinyl)
Availability: In stock
£20.00 Original price was: £20.00.£18.00Current price is: £18.00.
Availability: In stock
Limited Edition ‘Coral Mist’ coloured Vinyl LP.
Luke Requena’s debut solo album. As the Lacanian title suggests, it is a collection of meditations and self-reflection translated into sonic explorations of the space that connects the macrocosm and the microcosm. Inspired largely by Tarkovsky’s film Solaris, the making of Mirror Stage was a musical journey of internal struggle across subconscious landscapes.
Requena is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Vancouver, BC. Although his main source of sound is analog synthesizers, he also integrates santur, guitar and organs into his pieces. Drawing influences from artists such as Günter Schickert, early Pink Floyd, and classical Persian music, “Mirror Stage” emits waves of sonic and lush textures while exploring the dark cosmos. It’s a genuinely enthralling work.
“Santur’s little helper, anyone? Sorry. But Vancouver-based Luke Requena employs this ancient Mesopotamian stringed instrument to great effect, lending an exotically organic feel to his debut solo album. It’s a cosmopolitan affair: ‘Venus Maternal’ is awash with sun-baked Middle-Eastern textures, and the twanging strings of ‘Comet Mist’ – rising through ominous slabs of analogue synth – evoke Ry Cooder’s soundtrack to Paris, Texas. Elsewhere, there are nods to Meddle-era Pink Floyd, and Vangelis-esque closer ‘Sleepwalking Seagull’ provides an epic conclusion to an impressively ambitious collection.” – Bob Fischer.
You may also like...
- Quick ViewAdd to basket
Inner Roads and Outer Paths (Green Vinyl)
£21.00Vic Mars
Vic Mars critically acclaimed LP from 2019. Green Vinyl re-press + download.
- Quick ViewAdd to basket
Afternoon X (Vinyl)
£20.00Vanishing Twin
“…a hypnotic sound at the juncture of minimalism, kosmische, post-punk, and dream-laden, psychedelic pop.” Classic black vinyl edition, download included.
Praedormitium (Vinyl)
£22.00Original price was: £22.00.£17.00Current price is: £17.00.Polypores
Intensely absorbing, ever shifting through static squiggles, warm blooms of texture, bioluminescent glimmers, and rattling chimes… Dolphin Blue Vinyl. 300 copies only.
- Quick ViewAdd to basket
Pig Views (CD)
£12.50 Variants (CD)
£10.00Original price was: £10.00.£8.00Current price is: £8.00.Cobalt Chapel
Psych-infused chamber pop with echoes of Broadcast and Delia Derbyshire. The follow-up to their much lauded self-titled debut album.
- Quick ViewAdd to basket
Victorialand (Vinyl)
£19.00Cocteau Twins
2020 remastered reissue of the band’s fourth album, originally released 1986.