Tracklist1 –The Grey Wolves / Survival Unit Now The War Is Coming 2 –Artificial Stomach Tanatology Of A Damaged Brain 3 –Ex.Order Force 77 (Live) 4 –Slogun Show Me Again 5 –ANTIchildLEAGUE Execute 6 –Death Pact International Retaliation 7 –Streicher Totenlandschaft 8 –Skin Crime Hatred Of The Flesh 9 –Stalker Please Me 10 –Operation Cleansweep Tarpat 11 –Kraang We Are The Guilty 12 –Barrikad They Benefit From The Insecurity They Have Thought You With 13 –Genocide Organ Liberate Yourself 14 –The Grey Wolves / Survival Unit Now The War Is Coming (II) 15 –Wertham Its All About...
Tesco Organisation – 030
Pessimiser Records – 026
Too Damn Hype Records – 032
Candlelight Records – 142
Translation Loss Records – 126
Unrest Productions – 050
Hospital Productions – none
Transcendental tape loops and bedroom ambient dream states from the teenage mind of Warren Defever aka His Name Is Alive. All The Mirrors in the House is the first of three projected releases of very early works by the Detroit-based savant, prior to signing to 4AD in the late-1980s.
With help transferring ageing cassettes and annotating the results from Shelley Salant of Tyvek, the unearthed results are revelatory - a gorgeous sequence of gently decaying tone float made with an incredibly primitive DIY set-up.
As Defever recounts in the liner notes: “By age ten, I had a tape recorder and was using it to capture the sounds of nearby lakes, thunderstorms, and my older brother’s LP collection played at the wrong speeds. As a teenager, I got deep into all kinds of music - punk, new age, blues - and played bass in the high school jazz band, as well as studying Bach chorale harmonization and counterpoint. My first album consists of rhythm tracks made of loops of the next door neighbor raking leaves and shoveling the driveway with echoey guitars and vocals with lyrics about ghosts.”
Endangered Species – 010
