Mirror System - Route 77 [CD]
Format: CD
Catalogue No.: AAWCD022
Barcode: 5060016708463
Release Date: 25 Oct 2024
Genre: Electronic/Chill Out/Ambient/Tech-House
A 10 track Album CD digipack. 64 minutes of music showcasing Mirror System’s mastery of the chill out genre.
Mirror System is the chill out orientated sister project of Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy’s System 7. The Mirror System style features rolling grooves and a subtle blend of rich dreamy electronics and guitar, also incorporating a soft minimal tech-house element.
Route 77 is the third standalone Mirror System album, and the first studio release of any kind by Hillage and Giraudy since 2018’s Café Seven. A theme of the album is travel, and the wide open spaces and colours of the American South-West.
Route 77 features collaborations with The Orb’s Alex Paterson, Dan Donovan (of Big Audio Dynamite and Dreadzone) and Marv Brookes, and innovative cover versions of ‘Sunrain’ by the late Manuel Göttsching and ‘Paris Texas’ by Ry Cooder.
The end bonus track, ‘Sonora Desert Edge (The Abyss)’ is Steve and Miquette’s adaptation of a recorded poem by Allen Ginsberg,which, with its vivid evocation of the Arizona desert, fits perfectly within the soundworld of Route 77.
Digital singles will be released in the run up to the Oct 25th release day. These are:- ‘Paris Texas’ (Sept 20th) : ‘Camel Hot’ (Oct 4th) : ‘Shapes of Things’ (Oct 18th).
Throughout the Autumn, starting in October, System 7 and Mirror System will playing live shows in the UK in support of this release.
1. Paris Texas (2:53)
2. Avenue of Lights (8:30)
3. Bocca di Lupo (7:32) (with Dan Donovan)
4. Shapes of Things (6:57)
5. Camel Hot (7:30) (with Alex Paterson)
6. Sunrain (7:36)
7. Happiness Is a Cigar Called Hamlet (5:06)
8. High Field Cloud (5:47) ( with Marv Brookes)
9. John Vain (4:24)
10. BONUS TRACK:- Sonora Desert Edge (The Abyss) (7:33) featuring poem by Allen Ginsberg
TOTAL MUSIC TIME:- 63:48
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