1000 Mirrors

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This is a cover version of Asian Dub Foundation's song featured on "Enemy of the Enemy" 2003 album (guest vocalist: Sinead O'Connor).
It is the only cover song on Neuro's debut album "Mind Altar".

"it's one of the most intriguing compositions on Mind Altar and Short’s vocals are at their best here." - Michael Korn (RAM Magazine, Music Street Journal and his own project, Wormwood Chronicles)

"... performances may be of the mainstream rock nature, but the vocals – which certainly demonstrate power and passion – aren’t what one would typically hear on mainstream radio." Alexa Spieler (A-List MusicPromotions.com)

..."a spacey bit of ambient rock that's ambitious and refined. The vocals are vaguely tortured, like a cross between Freddie Mercury and Shel Silverstein. It's an intriguing if subtly disturbing start." - Wildy Haskell (Wildy’s World, a blog dedicated to exposing some of the best music out there, be it Indie or mainstream)

"An eclectic piece of work, with sitar and raw drums setting the tone along with Short’s dramatic vocals range across the surface." - Andrew Greenhalgh (Relevant Magazine, Stereo Subversion, CCM, Country Standard Time, and Soul-Audio.com)

“1000 Mirrors,” was originally performed by Asian Dub Foundation, featuring Sinead O’Connor. Neuro brings to their version a new, reggae-like back beat, but the heavy combination of bass drum, snare drum, synthesizer, bells, and overpowering electric guitar immediately maintains the original song’s dark theme of male dominance over innocent women.
The vocals have a driving, persistent rhythm, almost meditative, like a dread-locked David Bowie, or Styx at the end of ‘Mr. Roboto,’ and that intensity combined with the occasional, casually rolled ‘R’, makes for an unsettling vibe. The sparer, reggae atmosphere contracts into that wall of loud sound when the vocals cut out—layers of drum beats, dramatic synth crescendos, and playful electric guitar riff—then the song ends in simplicity." - Alice Neiley (has a BA in English with a minor in music from the University of Vermont, and currently attends Hunter College’s Creative Non-fiction MFA program in New York City)

lyrics

LYRICS:
A scream a shout far in the distance
Maybe the first or second floor
Curtains colouring the windows
Never see behind closed doors

A silent siege behind politeness
Domestic harmony for show
Lost in the mirage of a marriage
Outside a world she'll never know

And as I see through the real you
I'm falling straight into
A Thousand broken Mirrors I can't hide
And outside the bright lights
Can't hide the pain inside
And I've broken a thousand mirrors
Now it's time
Now it’s time
Now it’s time

Loving her children with a passion
Protecting them at any cost
Taking the only course of action
There's no more bridges left to cross

Who are the ones that are the guilty?
Who are the ones that bear the scar?
We must not leave our sisters bleeding
We sing this song for Tsoora Shah!

Chorus x 2
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Vocals: Jesse Short
Guitars, bass, programming & all other instruments: Steve Hansen
Produced, mixed & mastered by Steve Hansen at Hi-Top Productions

Original Version by Asian Dub Foundation
© MCA Music Publishing/Universal Music Group Publishing
Written by Steven Chandra (Chandrasonic), Sanjay Tailor (Sun-J), John Ashok Pandit (Pandit G), & Aniruddha Das (Dr. Das)
Lyrics reprinted by kind permission of Hal Leonard, Inc. & MCA Music Publishing

NOTE:
For Asian Dub Foundation’s inspiration, and for Sinéad O’Connor incantations: 1000 THANK YOU’s

credits

released January 11, 2015
Written by Asian Dub Foundation (Aniruddha Das / Pandit G / Steve Chandra Savale / Delbert Tailor). Universal Music Ltd.
Vocals: Jesse Short
Keyboards: Jesse Short
Instruments: Steve Hansen

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Neuro New York, New York

Described by Justin Kreitzer as "a unique blend of cosmic goth-rock & Pink Floyd-esque psych-rock freak-outs", based on their debut allbum, "Mind Altar" (2013), Neuro is ready to move with the follow-up, "Sensory Overlord", due in 2022.
Jesse Short, frontman, claims to have been stymied and Trump'd up for 4 years +.
Jesse was the Wiggy Moondust of NYC's G.Rex. Queen, Bowie & Muse: his top 3.
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