Brett Naucke Mirror Ensemble 07/12/2024

Brett Naucke Mirror Ensemble 07/12/2024Brett Naucke's new LP Mirror Ensemble created with Windy City mainstays Natalie Chami (TALsounds) and Whitney Johnson (Matchess) is Naucke at his compositional and conceptual best. Marking a major departure from his earlier, fully synth based output, Mirror Ensemble is a synthesizer record, an orchestral record, even a soundtrack. Naucke used scenes from Andrei Tarkovskys foundational 1975 film The Mirror as a signpost for mood and atmosphere, where

Larry LaLonde (guitar)

Tracks 1 Come An' Get It 2 Hot Stuff 3 Don't Break My Heart Again 4 Lonely Days

Drumsong (Three) 2

make no mistake

I Will Remember 9

It’s also totally perfect

traversing hailstorms

Hynes' genre-hopping career has been nothing if not an exploration of identity

from the airy happiness and steady rhythm to the melodic melancholy

refining tracks such as Android Hymn and Crosstalk realtime on twitch

Its a vision thats well-suited to a time when everything and everyone is supposed to be for sale

the album is a bold