VANISHING MIRROR

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VANISHING MIRROR

by PILL-OH

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1.	February Tale 03:40	buy track
2.	Notebook 04:00	buy track
3.	Stolen Moments 03:24 video	buy track
4.	Fields of Yellow Leaves 02:34	buy track
5.	Melodico 04:23	buy track
6.	Memory 03:08	buy track
7.	Nightstill 02:38	buy track
8.	Floating Feather 02:18	buy track
9.	No Regrets 04:16	buy track
10.	Waking Up To A Dream 03:36	buy track
11.	Movements Of Duality 02:52	buy track
12.	I Wake Up And You Smile 03:49	buy track
13.	Promise 04:14	buy track

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“I just allow the splendor of the day to absorb the darkness. My own light doesn’t last for long.”

A surface reflecting beauty through light. The eyes of someone reflecting your own inner soul. Images of a reality that exists only in wishes and dreams. We find ourselves when gazing into “mirrors”, but we lose ourselves if we gaze too much. Originally from Athens, Greece, electronic artist Hior Chronik (presently based in Berlin, Germany) and classical pianist-composer Zinovia Arvanitidi have crystallized a representation of time and memory, where dreams and delicate hauntings from the past merge with the present. “Vanishing Mirror” is their debut album as Pill-Oh, embodying 13 mesmerizing tracks of filmic romanticism and compelling detail.

Accomplished pianist Zinovia, whose roots are in the Satie and Chopin piano solos of traditional classical music, asserts her structures and phrases with an emotive power that is intense as it is controlled. Arranged around the piano’s deep, plaintive utterances, Hior Chronik’s electronic abstractions are fluid as the deepest rhythm of a dream, instinctively recurring between sounds and silences. Opening track “February Tale” conjures the image of a landscape vast and bare, questioned through the purity of a child’s eyes. In “Notebook”, Zinovia hammers percussively in long stretches of pulsing sixteenth notes to majestic and swooping ensemble arrangements. Where intensity rises, it’s the quiet spaces between these grandiose passages that demonstrates her masterful balance between strength and frailty with engaging restraint. Led forth by her melancholic piano phrasing, “Melodico” and “Memory” are manifested in a place of fragility and isolation where the surface of a lake is so tender it shivers at the smallest sound. Hior Chronik daubs over unsettling, sorrowful mirages with ambient dissonance. “I Wake Up And You Smile” demolishes the darkness and walls are broken, and nanaye’s feathery voice whispers illuminating words that sound distant yet familiar. In closing of these cinematic visions, Aaron Martin’s cello simmers slowly to the surface in “Promise” like a curtain call.

“Vanishing Mirror” is presented in a 16-page art book format featuring a collaboration with France-based photographer Aëla Labbé. Parallel to the music in her visual storytelling, Aëla’s ethereal images are rusted with burnished hues of childhood that probe deep into the consciousness yet shimmer with a child-like nostalgia. The children, as portrayed in her enchanting world find themselves intertwined with landscapes where the sun radiates with an vaporous, indeterminate glow. This record is mastered by label founder Ricks Ang.

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released October 30, 2012

All music by Hior Chronik & Zinovia Arvanitidi
Mastered by Ricks Ang

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PILL-OH Greece

Music project “Pill-Oh” was born in 2009 in Athens, Greece. With a contemplative approach, electronic artist Hior Chronik and accomplished classical pianist Zinovia Arvanitidi immersed themselves into a cocoon of hazy childhood memories and nostalgia, contemplating the link between “image” and “reflection”. ... more

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