Mirror Signal: International Showcase Fund
For:
BBC Introducing x PRS Foundation Showcase 2016 Montreal International Jazz Festival
Twenty-two year-old Steven Barker fronting a stage name rich in metaphoric subtleties has succeeded in steering taste maker traffic towards his musical moniker, Mirror Signal. Supporting the likes of Jess Glynne, John Newman and Jamie Cullum while garnering support from BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, 6 Music’s Gilles Peterson and Radio X’s John Kennedy along the way. Presenting a refined sensibility that belies it’s author’s tender age; evoking the sparse, avant-garde soul of James Blake and Jai Paul, along with the warmer tones of electronic singer-songwriters like Jamie Woon and Sampha. Notching up over a million plays with his previous offerings, Barker returns this summer with a complete new live set in advance of his next release.
The BBC Introducing and PRS for Music Foundation Award is providing a fantastic opportunity to perform at an elite event and enable potential new release partners to catch this rare talent first hand.
The Guardian – “Like Ed Sheeran locked in a studio all night with James Blake”
Afropunk – “Mirror Signal excels exploring the depth between beats. Reverb is too often used as a stand-in for actual atmosphere, but Steven Barker-as-producer seems to have an uncanny feel for ambience”
Gold Flake Paint – “If everything that came before was a tantalising glimpse in to the future then ‘All Along‘ is the moment that Mirror Signal comes in to fruition”