UNDERSTANDING

Understanding, Mirah's sixth full length solo record, is a conscious return to her early unconventional
recording process - an embrace of spirited imperfection and rawness inclusive of rough takes, natural
room sounds and a fair amount of broken equipment. Bathed it he sparkles of disco ball light, Mirah
recorded demos with vocals, guitar, organ and percussion in a former army barracks gymnasium at
The Headlands Center for the Arts where she spent four weeks as an artist in residence. Once home in Brooklyn, Mirah teamed up with her frequent co-producer Eli Crews (tUnE-yArDs, The
Julie Ruin, Son Lux) and invited Deerhoof's Greg Saunier to join them in the studio. The collaboration
sparked new textures and ideas. Building on top of Mirah's vibrant original tracks they used MIDI to
transform a marimba into a distorted farfisa melody, drastically lowered the pitch of vocals until they
morphed into sub-bass lines and added layers of distinct timbres from Crews' extensive vintage synth
collection, a mellotron and an '80s era Soviet drum machine.