Label: By the Bluest of Seas

ゲートフォールド・ジャケット+8ページ・フォトブックレット付き!!Giovanni Di Domenicoが録音を担当しています!!ミニマルな素材から複雑な構造を構築する独創的なピアニストであり、Giovanni Di DomenicoやJohn Also BennettのコラボレーターでもあるPak Yan Lau。石橋英子氏やLoren Mazzacane Connorsをはじめ、Chris Corsanoとも共作をリリース、多くの即興グループでの活動をバックボーンに幅広い活動を展開してきたDarin Gray。強者プレイヤー2者が作り上げた共同録音[Trudge Lightly]。構造的な弦楽器の演奏を軸に進行、インプロヴィゼーションの予測出来ない動きと、エレクトロアコースティックの物質的響きを融合させ、馴染み深くも違和感の強い音世界を描き出した凄い例。素晴らしい内容です。







double 10" vinyl / gatefold / 8 pages photographic booklet

"(…) 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)

Pak Yan Lau : prepared piano, toy pianos, synth, objects, electronics
Darin Gray : double bass, preparations, objects, electronics


Recorded by Giovanni Di Domenico at Studio Grez, Brussels, March 2016
Additional recordings by Pak Yan Lau, Brussels, June 2017 and March 2018

Mixed by Giovanni Di Domenico, December 2019
Mastering and Vinyl cut by Fred Alstadt at Ångström Mastering, Brussels, 2019