{"product_id":"buck-meek-the-mirror","title":"Buck Meek - The Mirror","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmerging from a decade of work together in Big Thief, the partnership of Meek and producer James Krivchenia on The Mirror arrived from the idea to combine the band’s live, kinetic energy with an oblique electronic world.\u003cbr\u003eFrom production projects including Big Thief’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You and his recent solo record, Performing Belief, Krivchenia’s work is enlivened through electronic elements, always seeking to deepen sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concept for The Mirror welcomed a collective atmosphere in which simultaneous experiment could occur – the musicians responded to each other in real time, while their instruments triggered modular synthesizers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor The Mirror, Meek and Krivchenia welcomed in friends, family, and longtime collaborators including Adrianne Lenker, who contributed vocals, Adam Brisbin on guitar, and Ken Woodward on bass.\u003cbr\u003eNew creative partners and longtime friends like composer and ambient musician Alex Somers joined in on synthesizer, toy microphone, an old piano, and Mary Lattimore brought in the sounds of her prismatic harp.\u003cbr\u003eA rotating cast of four drummers: Jesse Quebbeman-Turley, Jonathan Wilson, Kyle Crane, and Krivchenia provide a wide dynamic arc of grooves. Germaine Dunes, Staci Foster, Jolie Holland, and Lenker sing as a choir on many songs.\u003cbr\u003eMeek’s brother, Dylan Meek contributed piano, keys, and vocals. Adrian Olsen created a wide range of sounds and melodies with modular synths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith his songwriting acting as a compass to the recording process, Meek invited interaction, instead of limiting the tracks to something controllable.\u003cbr\u003eThe album was recorded in Meek and Dunes' Los Angeles log cabin studio, Ringo Bingo.\u003cbr\u003eMeek recorded vocals outdoors on the front porch, looking through the living room window where the band played inside.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an artist, Meek continues to reveal his singular aptitude as translator of human feeling and its endless portals.\u003cbr\u003eThrough The Mirror, he aptly embraces the unknown with an abiding desire to find the right questions to ask, rather than their answers.\u003cbr\u003e“I don’t know the meaning of your dreams,” Meek writes on ‘Déjà vu’, “Though tell me everything.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"4AD","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":56850000183628,"sku":"BLX-12459","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":56850000216396,"sku":"BLX-12460","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0841\/2738\/3884\/files\/1a5b919dfe3974cb34ccc949f85cfa59.png?v=1772102170","url":"https:\/\/badlands.co.uk\/products\/buck-meek-the-mirror","provider":"Badlands","version":"1.0","type":"link"}