Band Biography

Based in NYC, The Mirror Reveals consists of vocalist Kit Messick (ex-Unto Ashes), violinist Joanna Dalin (ex-Backworld) and guitarist/songwriter Babbo.

The band’s initial incarnation sprang as a side project for Middle Pillar Presents co-founder Babbo in 1999. For the label’s premiere release, the What is Eternal compilation, he created an ethereal track under the name The Mirror Reveals. Due to positive reaction, The Mirror Reveals have blossomed into a fully realized group. Their music is conceived as a work of art, a broad canvas where beautiful female vocals and haunting melodies are the paint and dark emotions are the subject of the piece.

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Over the course of 1999, Kit and Babbo worked on the debut full-length: Frames of Teknicolor released in spring of 2000. The album draws upon Kit’s cabaret background incorporating a torch song style that effectively uses her sultry voice to its fullest. The raw recorded tracks were mixed and sculpted into their final form by Bryin Dall and Derek Rush of A Murder of Angels. The result is a dark cinematic space, created by effects and electronics, and inhabited with warm melodies.

To coincide with the band’s performance at Convergence 7 in 2001, the net-goth festival, The Mirror Reveals released the CD-EP Divinity. The title track is a trip-hop lament inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost. Kit’s haunting vocals are complimented by Joanna’s violin melodies.

The most recent album This Infinite Eye, released in May 2004, expands the sound of TMR with an epic grander scale encompassing numerous guitar soundscapes and electronic beats. Kit Messick displays consummate skill whether singing acoustic ballads or ethereal dance tracks. Joanna Dalin’s violin accompanies Kit’s melodies with her own as Babbo’s guitar moves from subdued rhythms to aggressive leads. The album also features a fan favorite cover of Death in June’s “Golden Wedding of Sorrow”.

Various performers have been part of The Mirror Reveals over the years. Alexandra Phillips sang lead on the first TMR track "Let All the Poets Sing" on the Middle Pillar comp What is Eternal. Mark Steiner (Piker Ryan, Kundera, The Broken Men) sang lead vocals on "The Undying Man" off of Frames of Teknicolor and "Moon's On Fire" off of This Infinite Eye. He, Kristin Fayne-Mulroy, and Steven Eliot have played bass guitar at TMR performances. Kevin Dunn (Kobe, Loretta's Doll) and Paul Ash (ex-Unto Ashes) have played drums.