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Street of Mirrors (2024 Remaster)

by The Venture Lift Project

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Turn On 04:17
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Girl With Green Eyes 04:27
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David Peel, Spinnin' Wheel 03:07
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Bessie Echo Blues 04:00
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Life In Police State 05:46
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Street of Mirrors 04:34
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Junkie Love (I Don't Need No) 03:56
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Blavatsky's Beach 04:42
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Shall I Thank You 05:48
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War Won't Fix It (Alternate 1st take version) 05:31
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...the band played on. 03:02
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James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
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War Won't Fix It (Album Version) 05:28
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Album Review: Street of Mirrors | Venture Lift
By Mike Campbell


Street of Mirrors, the fourth album by Venture Lift, the neopsych recording project of Woodstock's Stanton Warren, is a highly dynamic and diverse set of material. It starts strong, with the track "Turn On," leaning heavily on the vibe of punk-goes-electronica pioneered by Suicide and New Order. From there, the tunes open up and slow down, getting more ethereal and spacey as the record progresses. On the instrumental track "Girl with Green Eyes," there are even some Eastern musical nods here, with sparsely played box percussion and open-tuned electric guitar drones that a Shankar-influenced George Harrison may have found fancy for. The spoken-word/instrumental track "Bessie Echo Blues" (voice by Karen Schoemer) reads like paranoid inner thoughts ripped straight from the headlines of anxiety-induced contemporary news media. A musical dirge trudges on behind the poetic lines, mirroring the delicate, labored movements required to simply get through the day with your mental capacities intact in these troubled times. Layered, phasered-out acoustics and sweet-voiced synths accentuate the languid, Syd Barret-esque vocals of the closing track, "War Won't Fix It," a sort of anti-call to arms, simple in its messaging but major in its meaning.

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released December 28, 2023

www.chronogram.com/arts/album-review-street-of-mirrors-venture-lift-3662816

Cover artwork by James Marsh

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The Venture Lift Project Bearsville, New York

The Venture Lift Project began with a debut CD "Future-to-real" on Mind Expansion Records (2007).
Another space rock oddity followed in 2011: "Tower of Spacious Karma" also on Mind Expansion features the run away hit "Bukowski on the Brain", with artwork by James Marsh. Subsequent albums are: 2014's "...a room in a grand hotel.", 2017's "Street of Mirrors" and 2020's "Arcadian Nights". ... more

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