GOLDEN MIRRORS (The Uncovered Sessions Vol. 1), the new album by Mick Harvey and Amanda Acevedo interpreting the songs of Jackson C. Frank will be released March 28th. 2025 Listen to the first song ‘Golden Mirror’ here - https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/4PfJO4zm7S7uVHrVchonio

Five Ways to Say Goodbye released 10th. May 2024

Phantasmagoria in Blue released 8th. September 2023

Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo have announced details of a new collaborative album, Phantasmagoria in Blue, set for release on Mute on vinyl, CD and digitally in September 2023. Follow this link to find the first single ‘Milk & Honey’ on various streaming platforms and YouTube etc: https://mute.ffm.to/mhaa_pib

The album release follows a European tour that will see Harvey and Acevedo join J.P. Shilo and Berlin band Sometimes with Others for a musical phantasmagoria, presented as the Invisible Blue Unicorns throughout May - full details below – with further dates in autumn across the UK, Ireland and beyond…

Mexican singer and filmmaker Amanda Acevedo met Mick Harvey several years ago in Mexico City while Harvey was on tour with P.J. Harvey, but it wasn’t until 2021 that their current project burst into life, as the pair shared musical and other ideas across the oceans and through the ether between Australia and Mexico. After Acevedo initially suggested the collaboration, Harvey sent over some ideas and, Acevedo explains, “The first recording we did was amazing, our voices matched very well”. Harvey expands, “…little by little it started to feel like something that could be an important project and gradually became the dominant focus for the following 18 months”

Phantasmagoria in Blue is a 14-track album of duets, with Harvey and Acevedo bringing new life to songs which were sourced from existing duets, songs that were never intended as duets, translations from Spanish, songs sung in Spanish, and a sprinkling of original compositions. Thematically the album explores the perennial themes of mortality, love and mankind’s search for meaning as well as incorporating an enthused engagement with the enigmatic and mythical.

Following their initial long distance collaborative work, Harvey and Acevedo met up in Los Angeles so they could continue work in person. Harvey explains, “We aimed big, I wanted it to be a big production to match the level of ambition in the whole idea. I think it’s one of the best things I’ve been involved in, for a long time”. In LA they worked with Alain Johannes (Eleven, Mark Lanegan, Queens of the Stone Age), recording most of the vocals at Norm Block’s Happy Ending studios in Silverlake. Late in 2022 they continued work in Melbourne, while also playing some shows in Australia together with J.P. Shilo (Hungry Ghosts, Rowland S. Howard) who is also featured on the album playing guitar and miscellaneous instruments. Harvey finished mixing the album, and coordinated the mastering with local legend Mikey Young, before Acevedo returned to Mexico.

Phantasmagoria in Blue is lush and sweeping in its emotional content and full of nourishment for the imagination and the senses, reworking and reinterpreting songs from artists as varied as Tim Buckley, Luis Eduardo Aute, Sibylle Baier, Silvio Rodriguez and Pat Benatar. Says Avecedo, “It was an unlikely connection and a very unlikely situation but it started working and has developed into a good friendship that I’m very grateful for. The album is a testimony to this.”

The limited edition, hand numbered  EP by Mick and Amanda Acevedo (Milk & Honey, Love is a Battlefield / A Suitcase in Berlin) is now available by mail order in Australian through

https://www.musicglue.com/mick-harvey-aus/shop

If you would prefer to order it from your local record store they can access copies through Magnetic South  distributors who are based in Melbourne

Mute will also have some copies available from late August at Mute Bank

https://mutebank.co.uk

The solo albums ‘One Man’s Treasure’ and ‘Two of Diamonds’ are being released together in a double album package on gold and red vinyl respectively. For ‘Two of Diamonds’ it is the first time the material has been available on vinyl. ‘Sketches from the Book of the Dead’ is also available on gold vinyl and ‘FOUR (Acts of Love)’ on silver.

The last couple of years have been disjointed and difficult to navigate at times for almost everyone. I have been working away in seclusion, only occasionally emerging to play rare shows in between Melbourne lockdowns. But now, with European summer approaching, I am booked to play two very special events in late Spring on my first trip to Europe in 2 and half years.

During 2020 and 2021 I have had several projects in development and this year have begun focussing on 2 in particular - a new solo album and an album of duets with Mexican singer Amanda Acevedo. As with many new collaborations during the last couple of years, I began exchanging ideas with Amanda through the internet. The prospect of our enjoyable collaborations becoming something more substantial only really emerged In mid-2021. Amanda had been an enthusiastic fan of mine and someone with whom I had been in contact for a few years. The sharing of musical ideas, when it began, was both cautious and uncertain but, as the work continued to grow in magnitude, a deep respect and mutual admiration has grown from these unlikely beginnings.

Amanda will join me along with J.P. Shilo and a string quartet at my upcoming shows in Norway and the Netherlands. The intention is to test a lot of the new material and a new general presentation including many of the songs from the two albums still in production -

June 9th. Emil of Elviras Studio, Moss, Norway -

https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/intimkonsert-q-a-med-mick-harvey-au-oslo-strings-billetter/689051

June 11th. Lyse Netter Festival, Moss, Norway-

https://www.ticketmaster.no/event/busstransport-mot-til-halden-billetter/689295

June 17th. Nieuwe Kerk, Den Haag (Grauzone Festival)

Tickets for Friday evening at - https://www.paard.nl/tickets/63894/

I have also resumed work on a collaboration with Mick Turner (The Dirty 3), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (The Art of Fighting) which began 4 or 5 years ago. All 4 members have contributed music and lyrics to the project with Adalita being the principle singer. The ensemble is, as yet, without a name or a finished album.

Release dates are as yet undetermined for any of these 3 albums.

It has been a long (or short?) two years but I have been working on a couple of albums and hopefully they will be completed in the second half of the year. More details to follow once I know what to say about them for public consumption and have some idea when they might be released.

There are two shows confirmed for Europe - 11th. June in Moss, Norway and the 17th. June in Den Haag at the Grauzone Festival. At both I hope to be performing (with a string quartet and a couple of guests) a selection of songs from my solo albums and to include a large number of unreleased songs from the upcoming albums. More details on THAT when I know what I am talking about or am allowed to reveal such information.

I am also thrilled to be able to include Anita Lane’s album ‘Sex O’Clock’ in my mail order (Australia only) The album is available for the first time on vinyl through Mute in the UK 20 years after its original release and sadly within 12 months of Anita’s passing. I’m thrilled to see the album available but, to be honest, every mention of it is accompanied by mixed feelings.

Australian Mail Order Store
https://www.musicglue.com/mickharvey/