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The Garden of Mirrors
The Garden of Mirrors
The Garden of Mirrors

Stephan Micus

The Garden of Mirrors

ECM

UMG-1000248788

LP Black $31

SHIPS BY 2026-11-13
  • Pressed on classic black vinyl
  • Recorded in 1995-96 at MCM Studios
  • The human voice accompanied by the bolombatto, an African gut-stringed harp

Description

Recorded in 1995-96 at MCM Studios. Just one look at the many instruments Stephan Micus plays is sure to impress, so too does one’s experience of what he produces with them dispel arbitrary interest in those means. Music flows from his fingertips in such an organic way that the source catches light in all of us. Nothing feels out of place. It’s worth noting, however, that The Garden of Mirrors makes special use of that most intuitive instrument of all: the human voice. Like water in sunset, Micus’s wordless songs collect light years of travel along the glittering surface of their multiplication. Twenty such voices manifest themselves first in “Earth.” Accompanied by the bolombatto, an African gut-stringed harp, this world traveler speaks to the very marrow of life. A binary star leaves his lips, the being to our nonbeing. Now available on vinyl.

Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Part 1: Earth

  • 2 Part 2: Passing Cloud

  • 3 Part 3: Violeta

  • 4 Part 4: Flowers In Chaos

  • 5 Part 5: In The High Valleys

  • 6 Part 6: Gates Of Fire

  • 7 Part 7: Mad Bird

  • 8 Part 8: Night Circles

  • 9 Part 9: Words Of Truth