Mirage, by Glass Beams

Mirage

by Glass Beams

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Laurence Waring Fantastic collection of songs, simple, restrained and beautiful

StrangeFlow Really lookin' forward to seeing them live soon! Very groovy minimalistic oriental vibes. Yeah! Favorite track: Taurus.

Sass Feels like my soul comes fully alive when this kicks in ✨ Favorite track: Taurus.

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1.	Mirage 04:50	buy track
2.	Taurus 04:32	buy track
3.	Kong 04:47	buy track
4.	Rattlesnake 04:44	buy track

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Research Records indicate their inclination for cosmic instrumentation and kraut pervaded polyrhythms once again with an introduction to newcomer Glass Beams. Recorded at the beginning of 2020, Mirage is the first release from the artist, issuing four compositions that lend from a profusion of sounds and influences.

"I was looking for new energy & inspiration to write a bunch of new music. I recalled a childhood memory of my parents and I watching a DVD they had bought: ‘Concert For George’ (a tribute concert for George Harrison from the Beatles). George’s long time collaborator and friend Ravi Shanka put an Indian Orchestra together for that concert, and even though I hadn’t even started playing music at the time that I watched this, the sounds really stuck with me.

My father was born in India and moved here when he was 17, and after recalling this memory I decided to look up musicians from my father’s hometown and surrounding areas. I found a wealth of Indian classical, disco and pop music that formed the building blocks for this record. As soon as I had that vision of what I wanted to write and why I wanted to write it, the songs just flowed out really." – Glass Beams

The album's opener and title Mirage arrives with a coiling vocal mantra that conspires with a sliding bassline and transcendent synthwork, reminiscent of early 70’s prog jams yet inverted and futuristic. Taurus is a brisk arrangement, steeped with spaghetti-western elements and space-jazz to pave the way for the agile Kong. Rife with psych-fusion guitar phrases and instrumentation, Kong unfolds like a forecast lysergic voyage. The finale Rattlesnake nudges the serpent with intergalactic scales and spellbinding riffs. We may not know much about the enigmatic Glass Beams but Mirage is one epic inauguration, leaving the listener with more questions than answers.

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released June 25, 2021

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Glass Beams Melbourne, Australia

The enigmatic Glass Beams radiate a psychedelia rendered with cyclical riffs and dizzying melodies.

Refreshingly, Glass Beams prefer to lie in relative obscurity as their narrative lies in the music itself. Their debut EP Mirage is due out in June through genre hoppers Research Records. ... more

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