{"product_id":"jean-michel-blais-mirador-117607","title":"Mirador","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003eWith \u003cem\u003emirador\u003c\/em\u003e, Jean-Michel Blais opens a window onto the landscapes of memory, imagination and wonder. The post-classical piano icon’s fourth solo studio album takes its title from the Latin \u003cem\u003emirari\u003c\/em\u003e — “to marvel” — and transforms the story of a suburban childhood into a poetic journey through sound.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eSet for release on 25 September, \u003cem\u003emirador\u003c\/em\u003e draws on Blais’s memories of growing up queer with Tourette’s, finding escape and possibility in a basement filled with everyday objects: an organ, VHS tapes, encyclopedias. These modest surroundings become gateways to distant cultures, inner worlds and expansive dreams — a “stationary world tour” shaped by curiosity, longing and discovery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eWritten for choir, Andean instruments, strings and piano, the album moves between intimacy and vastness, turning personal history into a richly textured musical landscape. It is also a tribute to Blais’s parents and the musical world they helped create around him, as well as to the absences and limitations that sparked his ambition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003eFor the visual world of \u003cem\u003emirador\u003c\/em\u003e, Blais reunites with filmmaker Adrian Villagomez, his collaborator on the award-winning video for \u003cem\u003epassepied\u003c\/em\u003e. Together, they have created the album artwork, visualisers and a longform film that brings several tracks into one immersive performance space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: DE;\"\u003eBoth tender and cinematic, \u003cem\u003emirador\u003c\/em\u003e invites listeners to see the ordinary anew — as a place of marvel, transformation and limitless imagination.\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNoSpacing\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003eSide A\u003cbr \/\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"\u003e1.muses\u003cbr \/\u003e2. ulysse\u003cbr \/\u003e3. pavane\u003cbr \/\u003e4. 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