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Mirror Music

Nearly two decades into his career as co-founder and multi-instrumentalist of the ensemble Balmorhea, Michael A. Muller deepens his compositional exploration with Mirror Music—available from Deutsche Grammophon digitally today and on a limited vinyl pressing on 15 March. Also out now is the track “Mirror 8 (featuring Hania Rani)”, accompanied by an atmospheric music video shot in black and white by renowned British photographer and director Rich Stapleton.

Mirror Music, Muller’s debut full-length for Deutsche Grammophon, is a study in reflection, with 10 tracks created in collaboration with 11 international artists. Thematically, the album is meant to feel familiar yet distant, a half-remembered dream that challenges what music ought to be while inspiring inward-facing interpretation. Formed by the inexplicable harmony of human connection and one’s impermanence in the wider scheme of self, existence and place, Mirror Music is at once holding out a magnifying glass and offering an open window to an ever-expanding cosmos.

Michael A. Muller:

Lower River Reworks

Lower River has been extended with the addition of “Glyph III”, a brand-new track from the Balmorhea co-founder  Alva Noto contributes a new remodel of “Recedes”  to the companion release, Lower River Reworks. “Notes stream forth, coming from this radiant river, which itself lays down roots in the mind and the imagination, but there’s a direct impact on the physical body, too, with the slowing of the pulse, the loosening heartrate…”Fluid Radio UK on Lower River. Michael A. Muller’s meditative debut album Lower River explores the place where space, time and self are occluded; a study in hearing versus listening, and engaging with sounds that challenge what music ought to be. On 22 September 2023, the Balmorhea co-founder’s full-length solo album—originally released in 2019—will be reissued digitally by Deutsche Grammophon. The release will be followed on 20 October by DG’s reissue of Lower River Reworks, a companion album featuring re-imaginings of Muller’s tracks by specially commissioned artists.