BY THE BLUEST OF SEAS BELGIUM
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BTBOS 001 LP YOSHIO MACHIDA & CAL LYALL : PREMEDITATION 2x10" 09.2020
1. The Fall Of The Carolinas
2. The Little Match-Seller
3. Blue Vigil
4. Langhorne's Wake
5. Yukon's Progress
6. Premeditation
In the early 2000s, Tokyo's SuperDeluxe was a meeting point for many experimental
musicians, both international and Japanese. This duo sprung from a live collaboration
at the venue in 2006, where Yoshio Machida was experimenting with processed steel
pan and Cal Lyall was largely performing using a tabletop guitar setup with a range
of electronics. Many subsequent encounters were heavily experimental, ranging from
densely layered noise music to sound collage. Through the years, the collaboration
shifted to a more tonal approach, with standard tunings and stronger compositional
elements. Both musicians have a deep interest in traditional improvisational forms,
so there was a natural evolution towards structural ideas -- based on minimal scalar
patterns -- as the sound became more acoustic. The most recent instrumentation
explores the unusual combination of steel pan, slit drums and banjo, while also
delving deeper into the characteristics of the instruments themselves.
Personnel: Yoshio Machida - steelpans, gamelan, metal slit drums
Cal Lyall - five-string banjo. Double-10"; gatefold sleeve;
eight-page photo booklet.
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BTBOS 002 LP PAK YAN LAU & DARIN GRAY : TRUDGE LIGHTLY 2x10" 09.2020
1. Ouverture : Openeye
2. Callings
3. Suspended Thoughts
4. Way To Walk
5. Lost
6. Trudge Lightly
"Pak Yan Lau, one of the most original pianists of the new European creative scene,
has the ability to build complex formal architectures starting from minimal materials
-- insistent rhythms, barely hinted melodies, electronic effects as evocative as they
are mysterious. Darin Gray uses his long experience as the backbone of many
improvisational groups with a painstaking work on timbre and a deep and multiform
sound, providing a solid support to extemporary creations that have the solidity
of pondered compositions. The music of the duo develops on wide structural strings,
elegantly combining the continuous surprise of free improvisation with the material
suggestions of electroacoustic experimentation, in a game of references and narrative
developments almost cinematic, which tell a fascinating sound world, strangely
familiar yet constantly new and surprising." --Nicola Negri, Centro d'Arte Padova,
Italy.
Personnel: Pak Yan Lau - prepared piano, toy pianos, synth, objects, electronics
Darin Gray - double bass, preparations, objects, electronics.
Double-10"; gatefold sleeve; eight-page photo booklet.
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/BTBOS.002LP.html
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