There must be at least a dozen Bands named "Mir" out there, but probably none of them is farther away from the original meaning of the word (mir= russ. peace, tranquillity) than this one. The relation, if any, could be found in the similarity of their music with the sound of a deorbiting soviet spacestation.

The threesome with the distinguished taste was already well acquainted with experimental forms of bruitage before forming this entity. Daniel Buess (dr/electronics) is percussionist and founder member of Ensemble Phoenix, a renowned ensemble for contemporary music, and has also been drumming in a latter version of legendary noise pioneers 16-17 (EP Mechanophobia). Papiro (g/bg) and Michael Zaugg (organ/synthesizer) forged their own bad reputation as some of the more radical drone musicians around.

After only three months their debut EP "Ex Modules" was released on A Tree in a Field Records, followed by a first tour in 2006, a second in 2007, and new recordings which are currently in the big hands of the mighty Alex Buess (not Daniel's brother). We'll keep you posted.

Check also Mir on Myspace

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Ex Modules
1 Kvant | 6:57 Min | 7.9 MB
2 Soyuz | 5:06 Min | 4.4 MB
3 Priroda | 3:52 Min | 7.9 MB
4 Spektr | 8:47 Min | 10 MB

Live @ Reitschule Bern Jun 9th 2006
Live Reitschule Bern | 3:37 Min | 1.6 MB

Live @ Das Schiff Basel Apr 29th 2008
06 | 6:09 Min | 5.6 MB
07 | 2:32 Min | 2.3 MB
11 | 6:34 Min | 6.0 MB

Info
Technical Rider | PDF | 48KB
Promosheet Mir – s/t (TREE025) | PDF | 316KB

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