"The One Man Orchestra"

Miro Mantere is an original recording and performing artist
 impossible to pin down into any category. 

Multi-talented musician, he is graduated of the Pop&Jazz Institute of Helsinki.

Since his youth, Mir-0 has been involved with a wide range of musical projects,
from rock, punk, glamour, folk, klezmer, world, trance, ambient music.

In the 90's, he travelled the world collecting sounds, music and instruments,
before starting creating his own music  that can be seen as
ethno-ambient, neo-folk, psycho-trance.

On his album, all instruments are played by Mir-0 from the beginning to the end,

Live performances are made possible with the use of live-looping technology that gives the impression of a whole band.

-NO SYNTHS and NO SAMPLES-

Most instruments are ethnic or self-made. Some others are conventional ones.

percussion, flutes, tubes
+
guitars, bass and mandolin
+
speechless voice

The whole music is improvised and develops around several themes to end up
in forming a whole piece of work without any pause. 
 

In his live shows, MIR-0 gives much space to other artistic expressions 
like dance, visual arts, acrobatics.

Each show is a journey that takes the audience into varying musical
and artistic territories.

These are top-notch space voyages and sure to please fans of early 70's
German electronica, ambient soundscape music, psychotrance 
and all things in the vein of organic ambient music.
 

In February 2005, MIR-0 had a kick off concert in Helsinki to introduce
his cutting-edge live looping performance. 
It brought him into the attention of the media
(newspapers and TV),
who presented him as a "sound landscape creator”.

Debut album SHHH of MIR-0 produced incollaboration with BOX has been released
in Finland on November 17, 2005.

Some people say Mir-0's music reminds them of MikeOldfield "tubularBells",
Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians" or Jon Anderson "Olias of Sunhillow".
Some even quotequote Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Steve Roach, Eno, J-m Jarre,
or the spacerock/prog-psychedelic bands 
like the Ozrics, Gong, Hawkwind, System7.

Well!
As Mir-0 likes to put it himself:"I let sounds create their own impressions
onto the lsitener. If during a song,one feels to be in the middle of the desert,
while another one finds himself in walking in a forest, I have succeeded.”
(Interview for Kaleva newspaper, September 2004, by Marko Sirviö).
 

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