Golden Mirrors - The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1 Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo

• 1 Golden Mirror 03:52
• 2 My Name Is Carnival 04:41
• 3 The Night of the Blues 04:17
• 4 Cover Me with Roses 02:34
• 5 The Visit 04:54
• 6 Marcy's Song 04:57
• 7 Blues Run the Game 04:38
• 8 I Want to be Alone (Dialogue) 03:41
• 9 Have You Seen the Unicorns 02:02
• 10 October 04:07
• 11 Juliette 03:43
• Total Runtime 43:26

Info for Golden Mirrors - The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1

Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo have announced details of their new album Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1), the first in a series of projects investigating songwriters for whom Harvey and Acevedo have a particular predilection. Golden Mirrors (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1) is set for release on Mute digitally on 28 March 2025, with an exclusive gold vinyl Australian edition, via Impressed Recordings, also available on release. The album will precede a series of dates across Europe.

Golden Mirrors is their second collaborative album, following Phantasmagoria in Blue (2021) which received international recognition.

The new album sees the duo cover 11 songs by the American songwriter Jackson C. Frank, an almost forgotten but recently rediscovered folk singer from the mid-sixties, whose sole album release was produced by Paul Simon and who counted Laura Marling, Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, Mark Lanegan and Fairport Convention as fans.

Golden Mirrors delves into a blend of haunting, cinematic soundscapes and emotional introspection, with a heavier focus on both experimental sounds and more expansive, rich arrangements. The album reflects a deepening of the artists' creative chemistry. Mick Harvey's atmospheric guitar work, signature production, and post-punk influences are balanced by Amanda Acevedo's ethereal, emotive voice, which brings an extra dimension to the music. Golden Mirrors explores self-reflection, transformation, and the beauty found in discomfort.

Mick Harvey, guitars, vocals, various instruments
Amanda Acevedo, vocals

Mick Harvey
renowned as a founding member of both The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and for his collaborations with PJ Harvey, has made a series of solo albums during the last two decades – starting with ‘One Man’s Treasure’ in 2005 and culminating with 2013’s ‘FOUR (Acts of Love)’. In the years since he has completed a 4 volume collection of translations of the songs of Serge Gainsbourg, which he began in the 1990s, and most recently released an album of songs based on a fictional WW1 poet in collaboration with Christopher Richard Barker called ‘The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War’(2018)

Harvey started out playing in bands whilst still at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne, Australia. Three of his schoolmates, Nick Cave, Phill Calvert and Tracy Pew, ended up with him in his first post-school band The Boys Next Door. Playing extensively around Australia in the late 70s the band eventually relocated to London in early 1980 where they changed their name to The Birthday Party. In the early 80s they were renowned for their wild performances and abrasive recordings which remain influential and unique to this day.

In 1983 The Birthday Party disbanded and Harvey was caught up in the formative years of The Bad Seeds with his Birthday Party bandmate Nick Cave and also worked in a variety of line-ups with the singer Simon Bonney on his Crime and the City Solution project which continued until 1991. During the mid-80s Harvey moved to Berlin where both these bands were based during the late 80s.

After the dissolution of Crime and the City Solution Harvey produced two albums of the songs of Serge Gainsbourg translated into English (‘Intoxicated Man’ and ‘Pink Elephants’ 1995 and 1997 respectively) and began collaborating with the English singer PJ Harvey and producing recordings for Anita Lane amongst others. His participation in Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds continued and he became more involved in film soundtrack composition.

With the advent of the new millennium Harvey was based back in his home town of Melbourne and finally began work on his own ideas for a series of solo albums. Initially based on an extensive wish list of obscure and much loved songs mixed up with some of his own occasional compositions the result was four albums – ‘One Man’s Treasure’, ‘Two of Diamonds’, Three Sisters – Live at Bush Hall’ and ‘FOUR (Acts of Love)’. This series of albums was augmented by 2011’s ‘Sketches from the Book of the Dead’ – a themed album comprised entirely of Harvey’s own song compositions and followed by the release of ‘FOUR (Acts of Love) in 2013.

By early 2009 the 35 year long relationship with Nick Cave had finally lost its spark and Harvey chose to leave The Bad Seeds. Since this time he has completed the aforementioned series of solo albums and continued presenting these works live in various band configurations and, at times, completely solo. He has also been able to find more time for projects such as PJ Harvey’s ‘Let England Shake’ and ‘The Hope 6 Demolition Project’ (the former which he co-produced) and has also been part of the touring band. More free time also allowed him to record with his former Birthday Party band mate, the late Rowland S Howard’s, final album, ‘Pop Crimes’ having also played drums on Howard’s classic first solo LP ‘Teenage Snuff Film ten years earlier.

2014 saw Harvey deeply involved in German culture again with the Ministry of Wolves (including Alexander Hacke, Danielle de Picciotto and Paul Wallfisch) and the Dortmund theatre production ‘Republik der Wölfe’ based on the stories of the Brothers Grimm.

The reissue of his two mid-90s albums of Gainsbourg translations saw Harvey take Gainsbourg’s works to the stage billed as ‘Intoxicated Man’ in Australia and Europe – the first time Harvey had performed these works live - and this led to the recording of a further 2 albums of translations – ‘Delirium Tremens’ and ‘Intoxicated Women”, the latter of which was released in early 2017.

Still based in Melbourne Harvey lives with his wife Katrina Beale, a painter, his son Solomon and a Burmese cat called Misha.

Amanda Acevedo
This is Mexican artist Amanda Acevedo’s second project in collaboration with Mick Harvey. After spending 2020/21 studying film in her home town of San Luis Potisí, Acevedo teamed up with one of her heroes to create a thematically rich collection of duets and continues that work into 2025 with this new release. She is currently studying and working in Melbourne, Australia.

This album contains no booklet.