Secret Circuit - Green Mirror

Label: Invisible, Inc. – INVINC 33LP
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: Apr 10, 2023
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub, Chillwave, Downtempo, Experimental, Tropical House

Secret Circuit aka the legend Eddie Ruscha (Good Morning Tapes, Beats In Space, Crammed Discs) is back on Glasgow's Invisible Inc.

For those unfamiliar with his work Secret Circuit is audiovisual artist and L.A. native Edward Ruscha V (yes indeed, son of THEE Ed Ruscha, legendary pop artist) who’s been on the music scene since time immemorial.

The "Green Mirror" album is a double LP comprised of 21 new pieces (80+ minutes of music) recorded between 2020 and 2022. It captures that spacey otherworldly quality Secret Circuit is known for, but the music also veers towards the warmer, ambient textural territories that his recent E Ruscha V and Only Thingz projects explored...an altogether softer sensibility.

Yet nevertheless this album is very much "Secret Circuit". Invisible Inc wanted to explore a side of Ruscha's that hadn't been captured so clearly before, focussing on his more emotive yet at the same time experimental side (is that a paradox?). Very rarely do we hear musicians using modular synths to create something so human sounding, and when juxtaposed alongside slide guitars, live bass and vocodered vocals, we have something very special indeed.

Then there's the artwork...all lovingly drawn by the bubbling mind and deft fingers of Eddie himself. The package is made complete with a double-sided colour insert with liner notes (which happen to be written in reverse, naturally, so you'll need a mirror to read them) and another of Eddie's mind-warping doodles. This is not like anything else you will hear...it's true art and you'll definitely need a very open mind to reap the rewards of this beautiful piece of work. A future weirdo classic in the making.

A1. Undenying
A2. Phasor MD
A3. Galleon In The Clouds
A4. Green Mirror
A5. Technautic
B1. Winding Up
B2. Ripe Ready
B3. Illuminated Knights
B4. Tunnel Vision
C1. Holding Pattern
C2. Polygono
C3. Every Day There's Something New To Say
C4. Westward Glint
C5. Play Music Now
C6. Stillitude
D1. Piece
D2. Light On Sand
D3. Golden Fluoride
D4. Thawing Stage
D5. The Land Of Modor
D6. Song Of The Sea