Mirry, by Mirry

Mirry

by Mirry

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Charlie Moonbeam This tape-decay scrapbook of music both somber and hopeful is the stuff dreams are made of.

A rare and life-affirming experience turning the pages of human history seated in a dusty armchair.

Records with stories this beautiful, with music this beautiful, are to be treasured. Favorite track: Study in B flat minor.

World of Echo Before I read the liner notes, I was like, "Wow, this sure sounds unstuck in time." And then I read the liners, and I was like, "Oooohhhhh. That's why this sounds so neat-o."

simon23winter I am deeply touched by the story of how this came to be as well as the beauty of the music. The layers of past and maybe lost hopes, honouring of ancestors, care of personal treasures, and creation of something timeless during our time of crisis and introspection. Is there more to come?

AB Very special. Out of time musical exploration rediscovered (found) in the microcosm of the histories our houses harbor. The bottom of drawers, the backs of wardrobes. Artifacts of sonic importance.

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1.	Anthem 02:55	buy track
2.	Idyll 05:12	buy track
3.	Study in B flat minor 02:29	buy track
4.	Caragh Lake 03:10	buy track
5.	Study in F 06:03	buy track
6.	Consolation 03:44	buy track
7.	Reverie 05:29	buy track
8.	Anthem Reprise 03:52	buy track
9.	Nicholas and Alexandra 02:58	buy track

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The discovery and musical re-imagining of Mirabel Lomer – an artist’s unheard world which is emerging from the shadows into the light.

30 years ago, Edinburgh based musician Tom Fraser was helping with the house clearance after his grandfather’s death and found an old scratched Transco record left out on the street. He took it home where it sat on a shelf for years until one day during lockdown, he gave it a play - and a whole world opened up to him - his Great Aunt Mirry had recorded a number of piano compositions which she had kept secret from her family. Since then, Tom has been re-working and re-mixing her compositions with his brother-in- law Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good the Bad and the Queen, and The Magnetic North) and together with project curator Kirsteen McNish they hope that this secret life will now reach beyond Mirry’s own four walls.

Mirabel Lomer was born in 1906 to a military family and for the best part of her life stayed at home in Ireland looking after her elderly parents. In the early 1950s she became a paid companion to another elderly couple in Wiltshire, both of whom she nursed until they died. While most of her life was spent caring for others it also transpired that Mirry had written music (despite the fact that as a young woman, her father actively discouraged her playing music in the family home). In quiet rebellion and creative escape, she composed this piano music secretly and her nephew and confidant Geoffrey captured it on his tape recorder.

Like untold numbers of women whose creative lives didnt find an outlet, Mirry never received any accolades for her work but enjoyed the act of creating work for herself. She died in the 1980s but the story of Mirry’s music and secret life is still unfolding.

The resulting album “Mirry” by Fraser and Tong is a celebration of Mirry’s work and a call and response to her original recordings with her family members – almost as if she were still in a room with them.

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released January 3, 2021

Produced By Tom Fraser and Simon Tong
Mixed by Kurran Karbal

Mirabel Lomer - Piano
Simon Tong - Loop arrangement, Drums, Guitar, Keyboards,
Tom Fraser - Loop arrangement, Keyboards, Bass guitar,
Antonia Pagulatos - Violin, Cello, Viola
Michael Smith - Saxophone

Project coordinated by Kirsteen McNish
Released on Dutchess Records

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The discovery and musical re-imagining of Mirabel Lomer – an artist’s unheard world which is emerging from the shadows into the light.

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