"(…) 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)
credits
released April 15, 2020
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
Photos by Beata Szparagowska, Sweden and Finland (2013, 2019)
Artwork by Isabelle Vigier, Brussels, September 2019
supported by 18 fans who also own “Trudge Lightly”
Total mastery of patience, time, and drama create a constantly engaging journey that never gets tiresome or same-y: in fact the harder you listen the better it gets! Somehow Sorey et al. find a way to combine the deep listening and spontaneous interaction of the best jazz with the sense of every tone and sound being worth a universe of listening, which could be equally from Cage and Feldman or the accompaniment to an ancient ritual.
The recording/engineering is absolutely perfect as well. Giles
Shards of static & distortion crash against disarmingly beautiful piano & synth melodies on this riveting new record from Carbon and Prose. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 30, 2022
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The intensity and power, the majesty, an ocean is beautiful and horrifying in concept, a representation of the power of nature to mystify and then swallow you whole, I walk straight into this ocean and it does what it will. Mighttheone