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MH-249 Caural - Mirrors For Eyes  Caural returns with Mirrors For Eyes, his second release for Mush, and the proper follow-up to his last cohesive full-length effort, 2002’s Stars On My Ceiling (Chocolate Industries). Continuing to build tracks of intricate sound splices over daring drum programming, Caural pushes the fine art of headphone music forward, with surprises around every beat. Hrishikesh Hirway, of One AM Radio, Paul Amitai, and Jacob Croegaert add stirringly sweet complimentary vocals to Caural’s already beautiful and melodic production on the tracks “Cold Hands,” “Cruel Fate of Spring,” and "Only Time Will Know," while Chicago MC Racecar, of the group Modill, laces “Lady” with a throwback rhyme in the spirit of Native Tongues. The brilliance of the instrumental passages and the standout guest vocal spots solidify Mirrors For Eyes as Caural’s most fully realized album to date. |
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| Very moving compositions for easy listening - Exclaim! / Something to luxuriate in - Aiding & Abetting / An accomplished and colorful affair - DJ / This record is pure joy - Okayplayer / Total enjoyable experience - Turntable Lab / Very recommended - Word |
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| Zachary Mastoon’s music occupies the same sort of creative territory from which talents like Four Tet, Prefuse 73 and Boom Bip have sprouted. He deftly combines a hip-hop production ethic with a strong pop sensibility, taking in plenty of wig-out digressions along the way. The glue that holds Mirrors For Eyes together is Caural’s pedigree in skilful electronic manipulations. "Re-experience Any Moment You Choose" is a blissful cut-and-paste of found sound percussion mixed in with more conventional drumbeats, all topped off with a layering of detuned female vocals. The jazzy excursions of "Transition Suite Part II – Papillon" and the new age-laptop-psych of "Hallucination Broadcast" bear the hallmarks of Mastoon’s musical education, studying Indonesian gamelan and South East Asian Music and even taking improvisation classes with none other than Anthony Braxton. A great example of hip hop-flavoured electronica loosening up and letting in some more out-there textures, Mirrors For Eyes sits alongside the recent work of Daedelus and Nobody, sounding very much like abstract hip-hop’s next move. - Boomkat |
