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mimesis -art imitating life CD
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Mimesis is a new recording project featuring the poetic words and voice of one of Australia's most prominent singer/song writers, Steve Kilbey (The Church) and the stunning complex ambient music of Melbourne based producer Simon Polinski (Hesius Dome/Ornament) along with Colin Berwick (Big Country), David Abiuso (Victorian State Orchestra) and guest musicians, Geoffrey Hales (Rip Van Hippy), Ollie Olsen & John Kilbey.
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Psy-062
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CD
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$15.00
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Psy-Harmonics
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Style: Electronic
Price in Australian Dollars & Includes postage worldwide
Track Listing
1. The Beginning 11:07
2. Kuala Lumpur 1983 12:40
3. She's in the garden 6:28
4. White 21:39
5. Matthew sends his regards 8:48
6. Fin 19:03
Produced by Simon Polinski
Recorded and mixed by Simon Polinski @ Laundry Goat Studio, Melbourne, Australia
expect White mixed by Greg O'Shea
All Vocals recorded by John Kilbey at Karmic Hit, Sydney, Australia
Mastered by Simon Polinski & David Abiuso at Laundry Goat Studio
http://www.myspace.com/mimesistheband
mimesis is finally finished
a album of atmospheres
dark beautiful music
words from dreams
ebbing flowing receding washing
coming on again
stronger stranger
music so full of sound
hidden things
things fizzing and squirming
falling and shivering
distant contraltos wailing
pianos crashing thru icy surfaces
double bass deep in the earth
the stories like life
that dont lead anywhere
you think
all things loop
all opposites reconciled and drowned
in each other
black n white become pains grey
(thats a painting pun)
anyway mimesis art imitating life
its fucking brilliant
and if any smarmy little bastard
gives it a slightly badde review
i'll be donning my bricklayer gear
and coming round yer house
and bricking yer fucking door up!
sk
taken from steve kilbeys blog The Time Being
mimesis : what is mimesis ?
Plato, unlike his compatriot Aristotle, didn't much go for Mimesis, the notion that all art is imitation. Poets, painters and the like, he argued, were 'two steps removed from ultimate truth', undermining human stability at best, downright depressing people at worst.
Were he around today, though, Plato would most likely love the latest addition to Psy Harmonics catalogue, however irksome its title.
For starters Mimesis doesn't reference life as we know it, exploring instead a wondrous, mysterious afterlife imagined by The Church front-man Steve Kilbey, set to (in Kilbey's words) a 'lush, evocative, pulsing, living, electronic, organic, dreamlike' bed of ambience courtesy of production wiz Simon Polinski, double bassist David Abiuso, pianist Colin Berwick and the wild experimentation they shared for 18 months.
On so many levels, Mimesis is without precedent. It's a 79-minute art house flick without pictures, a complex jigsaw piece you'll never, ever finish, and the greatest dream you've never had. It's Gustav Holst's The Planets, Mozart, John Taverner and countless other composers cut, morphed, squeezed and pureed until tiny snippets of their work took on whole new dimensions. It is, depending on your mood, a trip record, a heavenly bliss-out, or a disturbing plug into the subconscious's subconscious.
Connection, disconnection, love, loss, life, afterlife, all get a going over in a work that 'like mercury' it's impossible to fully grasp, but fun trying.
Not bad for a story loosely focused around two deceased strangers, sitting around in a caravan, with strange yarns to tell.
Related Rleases
Simon Polinski :
Hesius Dome - Farewell Waltz CD
Hesius Dome - The Age of Steam 2CD
Ornament - Bleu CD
V/A - ICONIC CD
Psy-Harmonics Vol. 5 -'Experience' 2CD
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