Cover: ECM Records
Recordings during his lifetime · 1988
Cracked Mirrors
Harry Pepl / Herbert Joos / Jon Christensen
ECM album in a trio with Herbert Joos (flugelhorn) and Jon Christensen (drums); the first album on which Pepl uses the Roland MIDI guitar as a defining voice.
- Released
- 30 May 1988
- Label
- ECM Records
- Catalogue number
- ECM 1356 / 833 472-1
- Formats
- LP, CD
- Harry Pepl
- leader
- Project
- Pepl / Joos / Christensen
- Recording
- February 1987, studio in the Wachau (ECM gives Lindner Studio, Furth); drums added afterwards at Rainbow Studio, Oslo
- Reissued
- 1992: part of the ECM box set “Hey, Guitar”; digital 12 June 2009
- Archive ID
- HP-T-0042
Tracks
- Reflections in a Cracked Mirror
- Schikaneder Delight
- Die alte Mär und das Mann
- More Far Out Than East
- Purple Light
- Tintenfisch Inki
- Wolkenbilder 1
- Wolkenbilder 2
The session came about at the suggestion of Heimo Steps (gamsbART); gamsbART advanced the studio costs, and ECM reimbursed them later. The album received the German Record Critics' Award in 1988 (the Österreichisches Musiklexikon speaks of a nomination). Wikipedia and mica list Pepl here as a sideman; the cover names him first. The order of the track listing is not documented.
In the press
- 1988 Pressespiegel (Collage, Zusammenstellung nicht bezeichnet): „Cracked Mirrors“: Kritiken aus Deutschland, Österreich, Frankreich, Großbritannien und Japan
- 10 January 1988 Kleine Zeitung: „Feldzug mit der Gitarre“
- April 1988 Tageszeitung (Titel nicht erhalten): „Versierte Gefährten“ (Musikantendreieck der Extraklasse im Posthof)
- May 1988 ECM Records, München (Presseinformation): Harry Pepl / Herbert Joos / Jon Christensen: „Cracked Mirrors“
- 8 September 1988 Die Steirische: „Vitaler Klangmaler“ (Das Künstlerporträt: Harry Pepl)
- 9 December 1988 Wochenpresse (Nr. 49): „Saitensprünge“
- 15 December 1988 Stuttgarter Zeitung: „Jazz im Zauberspiegel“ (Dieselstraße: Joos-Pepl-Oxley)
- November 2006 GamsbART-Post 5/2006 (GamsbART-Verein, Graz): Programm November bis Dezember 2006: Harry Pepl Gedenkpreis, 14. Austrian Soundcheck, Katholisches Studentenhaus Münzgraben
- 16 January 2012 ECM Reviews (Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond): „Pepl/Joos/Christensen: Cracked Mirrors (ECM 1356)“
- 18 December 2017 Guitar Moderne (Online): „Harry Pepl: The One That Almost Got Away“
- 12 April 2024 Wulf Müller, Blog „European Jazz Masters Of The Past“: „European Jazz Masters Of The Past #3: Herbert Joos“
- 9 June 2024 Instagram (@ecm_vinylcollector): „Cracked Mirrors“ (Pepl/Joos/Christensen, ECM 1356)
