Stephan Micusc is a German musician who collects obscure instruments from around the world, and then learns to play them. He's been making records for twenty years, featuring lush combinations of instruments that, to his knowledge, have never been played in an ensemble before. His latest CD, The Garden of Mirrors, features a harp from Gambia, an Irish tin whistle, a Japanese flute, and steel drums from Trinidad, just to name a few of the instruments. Micus has multi-tracked his own voice to accompany his unique compositions, creating a choir that evokes the black township choirs of South Africa. Charles de Ledesma has a review of the disc. (4:30) The Garden of Mirrors, by Stephan Micus is copyright 2000, ECM Records.
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