Mira Calix - Wins British Composer Award + New Album on Aperture

January 08, 2010

Mira Calix has won a British Composers Award for her composition 'My Secret Heart', commissioned by Streetwise Opera. Touted as the classical equivalent of the Mercury Prize, the award is yet another fantastic achievement for Calix and the creative team of 'My Secret Heart" . The the judges described the piece as "transformational, capturing raw humanity and giving voice to the disenfranchised in a sound-world which is original, absorbing and unsettling". My Secret Heart will be installed in Paris in April and continues to tour in 2010

Chorus, Mira's collaboration with United Visual Artists (video below), continues to tour in 2010, you can watch a brief documentary on Sky Arts to find out more about this groundbreaking work.

Lost Foundling - Clifford & Calix - Aperture Records - Release date: 01.03.2010

A new old album by Warp artists Mark Clifford and Mira Calix . They've been friend for a long while and during the 5 year period between 1999 and 2004, they'd meet up from time to time, hang out, drink a lot of coffee, smoke too many cigarettes, stay up all night and make some noise. The songs on Lost Foundling come from this very loose and irregular working period. Their initial plan was to come back to the tracks at some point, mix them and release them. However, they were both busy with other projects and when Andrea Parker expressed and interest in releasing the material on her newly established Aperture label, the duo discovered it was impossible to go back and meddle in their material as most of their equipment had become defunct. Lost Foundling captures a slice in time, a document of their discovery and experimentation as musicians, the songs have survived, unihibited, tender and instinctive. A remix Ep will follow later in the month and will include mixes by Luke vibert, Ultradyne and Andrea Parker.

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