Mirror – Solaris

The first CD Album by Mirror, recorded August 2001 by Christoph Heemann and Andrew Chalk is already in danger of becoming another rarity (like their previous limited vinyl releases) just 4 weeks after it's publishing.
Heemann (of H.N.A.S. and C93 fame) and Chalk (New Blockaders, Organum, ORA) know for sure how to attract a loyal following.
The 41 minute track which is actually "Solaris" is an deep space journey without the Sci-Fi gloss of Star Wars et all, more like travelling in some old and lost (maybe Russian) space ship that's unable to change it's direction and the life ing system is running low of energy.
The aim of the mission is forgotten but undefined waves of sound shake through the last remaining engers. Shades of memories are evoked - isolation, apathy and hopelessness dictates the mood. Any conventional form of communication broke down long ago.
A soundtrack for a late night listening out of the head after your lover left you in anger or as David Sylvian has put it two decades ago "the doubt inside my mind comes and goes but leads to nowhere".

[Reviewed for The Brain in 2002.]