light.box + Emil Karlsen - The Undanced Dance
light.box
Alex Bonney - trumpet/electronics
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay - bass guitar/electronics
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Emil Karlsen - drums
“Fractured grooves blend into dark, cinematic ambient drones and morph into spontaneous improvisations, colored by epic electronica and ornamented with raw noises
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For their third album, and first release on Bead, light.box expands from the duo of Alex Bonney (trumpet, electronics) and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (bass guitar, electronics) to a trio adding the highly inventive Norwegian improv drummer Emil Karlsen. The music moves into ever more sonically expansive territory: dark ambient drone with fractured grooves meets gestural improv, gritty noise corrupts epic electronica.
Recorded at Huddersfield University 16-17/10-2021
Mixed by Alex Bonney
Mastered by P.A Tremblay
Cover photo, artwork and design by Emil Karlsen
All rights reserved
BEAD 44
With thanks to the University of Huddersfield for generously supporting this recording
press reactions
"Fractured grooves blend into dark, cinematic ambient drones and morph into spontaneous improvisations, colored by epic electronica and ornamented with raw noises." - Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
"The music is roomy, but its shadowy ambience proposes hidden secrets which reveal themselves as your rewards for close, attentive listening. An inimitable soundscape that encapsulates the audience." - Ken Cheetham, Jazzviews
"An important new entry in this second volume trajectory of Bead, as it broadens the label’s catalogue, while staying true to the nature of 1970’s improvisation." - Fotis Nikolakopolous, Freejazzblog