Miroir, by nous

Miroir

by nous

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1.	Notturno 03:41	buy track
2.	Miroir 04:00	buy track
3.	Reflecting the infinite 02:22	buy track
4.	Voliere 04:38	buy track
5.	Murr 02:01	buy track
6.	Espérer 01:19	buy track
7.	Gute Nacht 04:19	buy track
8.	Doppelgänger 02:50	buy track
9.	I like smaller things 03:39	buy track
10.	Miau 02:47	buy track
11.	SiuSiuSiu 05:55	buy track
12.	Zersprungen in ungezählte Stücke 01:13	buy track
13.	Nachtstück 01:34	buy track
14.	Folgendermaßen 04:29	buy track

about

"Miroir“ is the second release of Berlin based Duo NOUS - Marie Seferian and Henning Schmiedt. The poetic album deals with space, reflections, surrealism.

After their post chanson debut album "Je Suis," the Duo now creates an atmospheric soundtrack for an imaginary film. "Hoffmanniana "is the title of director Andrei Tarkovsky's scenario for a movie about the 19th-century German poet E.T.A. Hoffmann, a project he could never realize. Tarkovsky felt profoundly connected to the German Classicistic period and Hoffmann, who used surreal and sarcastic elements in his short stories.
Some of the album's songs reflect scenes written in Tarkovsky's scenario directly – E.T.A.'s penchant for cats, for instance, the mystic mirror tales, and his surrealistic settings find their way into Marie's lyrics.

Tarkovsky's work often praises the beauty of decline as an art of transition. In the former Soviet Union, this was considered a critique of the ruling aesthetics of Socialist Realism and art as a weapon in the Cold War. Living in a communist dictatorship himself in the '80s, Henning was sensing that Tarkovsky was using these aesthetics to criticize society. A socially critical element is present in Hoffman's work as well.

Tarkovsky's praise of imperfection and slowness appeals to (no)us because it feels like a silent protest against the present-day, high-speed lifestyle and its irresponsible and damaging tendencies. "As musicians, we always value space and rest in music because the audience can reflect, contemplate, react and create their imaginations on the piece, perhaps in an ideal way that we couldn't even play."

credits

released June 22, 2022

all titles are composed, performed, and produced by Marie Séférian and Henning Schmiedt

recorded January 2021 at Studio Klavierraum by Henning Schmiedt
Mixing: Henning Schmiedt
Mastering: Wolfgang Fiedler june 2021 at sono-works

Layout and artwork by Ryuto Miyake