mir8


photo: Jubal Battisti

Hilary Jeffery – trombone, trumpet, electronics
Tim Wright – computer, electronics

GIGOGRAPHY

FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER 2019


Hilary Jeffery – trombone, trumpet, electronics
Fay MacCalman – clarinet, sax, electronics
Tim Wright – computer, electronics

TUSK FESTIVAL
Hall 2
Sage Gateshead
St. Mary’s Square
Gateshead Quays
NEWCASTLE NE8 2JR
UK

tuskfestival.com

FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER 2018


photo: Polina Ulianova

Tony Buck – drums
Werner Dafeldecker – double bass
Hilary Jeffery – trumpet
Robert Nacken – sound
Simon James Phillips – piano
Tim Wright – computer

Göteborg Art Sounds
Atalante
Övre Husargatan 1, 411 22,
GOTHENBURG
Sweden

gas-festival.com

SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER @ 14:00

mir8hj
Werner Dafeldecker – electronics
Hilary Jeffery – trombone
Tim Wright – computer

MUSIC UNLIMITED
CHARHIZMATIC MUSIC curated by Christoff Kurzmann
WELS
Austria

waschaecht.at/music_unlimited

DISCOGRAPHY

Perihelion

Andrea Belfi – drums, percussion
Werner Dafeldecker – function generators, bass, producer
Hilary Jeffery – trombone
Tim Wright – computer, electronics

The debut album by mir8 on Shhpuma features four cinematic tracks following an abstract narrative through panoramic landscapes, produced by Werner Dafeldecker with multi-layered hybrid structures of orchestral strings, trombone, electronics and percussion. “Perihelion” is a solar orbit steered by four seasoned musical voyagers. Werner Dafeldecker has produced new forms as an integral member of Polwechsel, introducing post-minimalist shifts in the improvised and experimental scenes of Vienna, Berlin and beyond. Hilary Jeffery played trombone in Tim Wright’s early 90s UK electronica project Germ and they subsequently worked together in the “electro-metal-voodoo-jazz” group Sand, releasing three astonishing albums on Soul Jazz Records. Andrea Belfi’s drumming is a time-tested element in radical music of the last twenty years. Together as MIR 8 these four unique musicians have created an album which combines an unusual blend of idioms without any dilution. The listener gets immersed into a genre bending soundscape of lush movie soundtrack strings, pulsating bass driven electronics, polyrhythmic tessellations and introspective melodies unwinding into deep space. The hypnotic structures of MIR 8 unwravel through the mind as a real “cinema for the ear” inspired by Hilary Jeffery’s travel through the Sahara, Andrea Belfi’s percussive divings into the ocean’s depths, Tim Wright’s evocative journey’s into twilight post-rave mind states and Werner Dafeldecker’s pioneering orbits of the cosmos, up to and including the event-horizon.

shhpuma.com

soundcloud.com/mireight