Label: Pica Disk - PICA045

2018年ベストリリースの一枚！！ノイズ作家でありなが、自国ノルウェーに60年代後半より存在するHenie Onstadアートセンターの発掘音源に携ったり、またO. Gudmundsen Mindeという非常に興味深いセレクトのレーベルを運営している大ベテランのLasse Marhaug。哲学や文学からのインスパイアを作品化するシンガポールの即興演奏家、デザイナー、キュレーターであるYuen Chee Waiと共に制作した激シブの即興ドローン。昔シンガポールに存在したという"FluxUsレコードストア"なる場所で一晩中行ったというセッション録音であり、クールな持続音に程よいタイミングでギター&ザラついたエレクトロニクスの破片が投下されていきます。Pica DiskとUjikaji Recordsの共同出版作。

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Vinyl LP. 300 copies. Reverse printed cover. Comes with liner notes only included with the physical release.

Yuen Chee Wai is a musician, artist, designer and curator based in Singapore. Often inspired by ideas drawn from philosophical and literary texts, and perspectives glimpsed through the filmic eye and photographic lens, Yuen’s stylistic oeuvre in improvised music is marked by internalised reflections on memory and loss, invisibility and indeterminacy. In 2008, he teamed with Otomo Yoshihide (Japan), Ryu Hankil (South Korea), and Yan Jun (China) to form FEN (Far East Network), a music quartet that continues to work with multifaceted networks and collaborations between musicians and artists across Asian countries. He is also a member of the avant-rock band The Observatory, with whom he plays guitar, synth and electronics.

Lasse Marhaug has since the early 1990s been one of the most active artists in the Norwegian noise/experimental music scene. As a performer and composer he has contributed to well over 300 CD, vinyl and cassette releases over the years, as well as extensive touring and performing live on all continents of the world. In addition to his solo work, Marhaug has collaborated with many artists in the fields of noise, experimental, improv, jazz, rock and metal, as well as working with music and sound for theatre, dance, installations, cinema and video.

In 2006, the two spent a full night recording together at the now defunct FluxUs record store in Singapore. The material for the sessions were partially mixed, but remained unfinished. Ten years later, in 2016, the two met again to record in Marhaug’s Oslo studio. The previous recording wasn’t thought of during the new session, but in the course of the mixing it was discovered that the two recordings fit together like a glove. The long-form droney 2006 sessions, recorded late at night in the humid heat of Singapore, complimented the more angular electronic 2016 recording, which was captured in daytime during the brutally cold January winter of Norway. The opposing qualities of the sessions complemented each other, and now the result is available as “In Praise of Shadows”. Sometimes it takes ten years to make an album.