In Mirrored Sky
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In Mirrored Sky is the debut studio album
from multi-instrumentalist and composer Nick Pynn
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Re-issued August 2007 as a double package with the follow-up 'Music from Windows'.
The subtitle of track 10 "The Correct Selection of Gears" comes from an owners workshop manual.
Track 11, "For Chloe" was written for Pynn's daughter shortly after her birth.
The album is dedicated to the memory of Pynn's mother, Joan Margaret Pynn. 9 February 1922 - 17 April 1995.
The Album was recorded at Anzak Studios, Brighton.
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
from multi-instrumentalist and composer Nick Pynn
Nick Pynn
Nick Pynn is a British musician and composer noted for his use of bass pedals and live looping with electroacoustic stringed instruments...
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Re-issued August 2007 as a double package with the follow-up 'Music from Windows'.
Track listing
- "In Osnabrück"
- "Glide"
- "Through Trees"
- "The Mill"
- "The Tunnel and the Fair"
- "A Quarter-Past Kite"
- "Sunday's Window"
- "The Myth of the Land Diver"
- "In Mirrored Sky"
- "The Correct Selection of Gears : CHU 394C R.I.P"
- "For Chloe"
- "The Illusionist"
- "Under a Greek Moon"
- "A Stiller Place"
The subtitle of track 10 "The Correct Selection of Gears" comes from an owners workshop manual.
Track 11, "For Chloe" was written for Pynn's daughter shortly after her birth.
The album is dedicated to the memory of Pynn's mother, Joan Margaret Pynn. 9 February 1922 - 17 April 1995.
The Album was recorded at Anzak Studios, Brighton.
Musical Credits
- Nick Pynn - ViolinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
, Acoustic GuitarAcoustic guitarAn acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
, DulcimerAppalachian dulcimerThe Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States...
, MandocelloMandocelloThe mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It has eight strings in four paired courses, tuned in 5ths like a mandolin, but is larger, and tuned CC-GG-dd-aa . It is to the mandolin what the cello is to the violin.-Construction:Mandocello construction is similar to the...
, BouzoukiBouzoukiThe bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...
, MandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
and 5 String Banjo - Herbie Flowers - Double BassDouble bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
on "Through Trees", "Glide", "In Mirrored Sky" and "The Correct Selection of Gears" - Adrian Oxaal - CelloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
on "Glide" - Neil Smith - Darabhuka on "The Mill" and "The Tunnel and the Fair"
- Maxine Sweatman - Hurdy GurdyHurdy gurdyThe hurdy gurdy or hurdy-gurdy is a stringed musical instrument that produces sound by a crank-turned rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to a violin...
on "The Tunnel and the Fair"