''In Mirrored Sky'' (1995) is the debut

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

from multi-instrumentalist and composer

Nick Pynn Nick Pynn (born 17 November 1962) is a British people, British musician and composer noted for his use of bass pedals and live looping with electroacoustic stringed instruments. He has been described as an ‘avant folk’ artist, whose early inter ...

. Re-issued August 2007 as a double package with the follow-up 'Music from Windows'.

Track listing

# "In Osnabrück" # "Glide" # "Through Trees" # "The Mill" # "The Tunnel and the Fair" # "A Quarter-Past Kite" # "Sunday's Window" # "The Myth of the Land Diver" # "In Mirrored Sky" # "The Correct Selection of Gears : CHU 394C R.I.P" # "For Chloe" # "The Illusionist" # "Under a Greek Moon" # "A Stiller Place" The subtitle of track 10 "The Correct Selection of Gears" comes from an owners workshop manual. Track 11, "For Chloe" was written for Pynn's daughter shortly after her birth. The album is dedicated to the memory of Pynn's mother, Joan Margaret Pynn. 9 February 1922 - 17 April 1995. The Album was recorded at Anzak Studios, Brighton.

Musical credits

*Nick Pynn –

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

dulcimer The term dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments. Hammered dulcimers The word ''dulcimer'' originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of ...

mandocello The mandocello () is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It is larger than the mandolin, and is the baritone instrument of the mandolin family. Its eight strings are in four paired courses, with the strings in each course tuned in ...

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', , from Greek , from Turkish ) is a musical instrument popular in West Asia (Syria, Iraq), Europe and Balkans (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey). It is a member of the long-necked lute fam ...

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

and 5 string banjo *Herbie Flowers –

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

on "Through Trees", "Glide", "In Mirrored Sky", and "The Correct Selection of Gears" *Adrian Oxaal –

cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

on "Glide" *Neil Smith – darabhuka on "The Mill" and "The Tunnel and the Fair" *Maxine Sweatman –

hurdy-gurdy The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-turned crank, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin (or nyckelharpa) bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar ...

on "The Tunnel and the Fair"

Production credits

*Simon Morris - Engineer *Sandy Cameron - Photography *Mike Mussell - Design

External links

Nick Pynn, Acoustic Musician and Composer
1995 albums Nick Pynn albums {{1990s-folk-album-stub