press reactions
“An intense and restless, electroacoustic collision of sounds, textures and improvisation tactics.” - Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
“At its best, it sounds like Bill Dixon and Evan Parker teaming up with Excepter to perform some kind of dark funeral rite.” - Phil Freeman, The Wire
“Music with many variations and full of unique sounds and textures.” - Tony Dudley Evans, UK Jazz News
“Real-time sampling, setting up complex echoes very much reminiscent of Terry Riley’s 1963 tape manipulation piece (…) Hats off to this current endeavour for keeping some of that avant-garde intensity alive and well in 2025.” - Daniel Spicer, Jazzwise
light.box + Tom Challenger - Eyre
light.box
Alex Bonney - trumpet / electronics
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay - bass guitar / electronics
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Tom Challenger - tenor saxophone
For their fourth album, and second release on Bead, light.box augments the duo of Alex Bonney (trumpet, electronics) and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (bass guitar, electronics) with a special guest, Tom Challenger on tenor saxophone
The album explores a vast range of textures and dynamics from cinematic ambient drones to delicate timbral and microtonal explorations, from fast-paced dialogues to invasive waves of distortion. The rapport between the musicians has developed over years of playing together in various other projects; yet this recording captures the first-ever performance of this trio, in all its exploratory rawness.
Recorded at City University 28th February 2024 thanks to Tullis Rennie
Mixed by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Mastered by Pierre Alexandre Tremblay and Alex Bonney
Cover photos by Alex Bonney
Artwork and design by Emil Karlsen
Produced by Emil Karlsen for Bead Records
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BEAD 51
“A total experience that merges elements of jazz, post-punk, kosmische music, techno and avant-garde into an unnerving but also imaginative soundtrack-like performance of playful shadowy curiosity and gravitas”