Name: All The Mirrors In The House (Early Recordings 1979 - 1986)
Brand: His Name Is Alive

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Bonus disc: No

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DISC3

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Clear

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-06-21

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5060384615592

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / clear

Artist

His Name Is Alive

Genre US

Electronic

Label US

Disciples

His Name Is Alive is an American experimental rock band hailing from Livonia, Michigan. With a discography spanning several decades, the group has explored various genres including ethereal dream-rock, dub, '60s pop, garage rock, and psychedelic classic rock. In the early 2000s, the band took a unique turn towards experimentally minded smooth urban balladry influenced by gospel and R&B. Continuing to evolve their sound, His Name Is Alive now embraces a distinct psychedelic rock style.

Transcendental tape loops and bedroom ambient dream states from the teenage mind of Warren Defever aka His Name Is Alive. All The Mirrors in the House is the first of three projected releases of very early works by the Detroit-based savant, prior to signing to 4AD in the late-1980s. With help transferring ageing cassettes and annotating the results from Shelley Salant of Tyvek, the unearthed results are revelatory - a gorgeous sequence of gently decaying tone float made with an incredibly primitive DIY set-up. As Defever recounts in the liner notes: “By age ten, I had a tape recorder and was using it to capture the sounds of nearby lakes, thunderstorms, and my older brother’s LP collection played at the wrong speeds. As a teenager, I got deep into all kinds of music - punk, new age, blues - and played bass in the high school jazz band, as well as studying Bach chorale harmonization and counterpoint. My first album consists of rhythm tracks made of loops of the next door neighbor raking leaves and shoveling the driveway with echoey guitars and vocals with lyrics about ghosts.”

All The Mirrors In The House (Early Recordings 1979 -  1986)

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