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Mirror
Format
CD and Cassette
Release Details
Released in 1991 on Probe Records on CP and Cassette. The album was rereleased on Occultation Records in 2017 on LP and Digital formats.
Track List
Shadowlands
Inmaculado
Joy Of The Cross
Hymn To Dionysus
Nostalgia
Theme De "L'homme Qui Ne Croyait Pas En Lui-meme"
Psalm
Nativity
Man Of Sorrows
Theme Reprise
Released on CD and cassette in 1991 on Probe Records, Mirror was RAIJ's second full length album.
'Mirror sounds like nothing else. The core trio of multi-instrumentalist Egan, clarinettist/keyboard player Paul Boyce and guitarist/ percussionist/keyboardist Leslie Hampson create a shifting sound collage designed to reflect the geopolitical changes Europe was going through at the time. It’s full of arcane references and samples, among them medieval Spanish poetry and old propaganda clips from East Germany and Albania. Yet it’s nowhere near as impenetrable as this might suggest. Aided by a bank of helpers who provide piano, sax, accordion and flute, RAIJ display a lightness of touch that allows space between the not-quite grooves. Monastic chants evoke a spectral religiosity, while layers of humming electronica provide an unsettling backdrop to a succession of strange benedictions. Way-off weird? Absolutely. Thoroughly captivating too.'
Louder Magazine













