Label: LAAPS

共に2011年頃から音作品の発表を開始、米国を拠点とするギタリスト、作曲家、フリー・インプロヴァイザーであるLake MaryとDaniel Wycheが、自由なアイデアを投げかけながら完成させたという2024年10月発表のアルバム[Deer's Breathe In Every Color]。互いがギタリストという事もありギターの緩いフレーズを特徴とする牧歌的なアンビエント作品であり、うっすらと漂う自然音のテクスチャーも有機的で美しい。まさにこのレーベルらしい一枚。LP版はマゼンタ透明ヴァイナル仕様。





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• 12’’ magenta transparent vinyl
• Selective UV varnish (front+back)
• Matt laminated outer sleeve on 300 gm paper
• Hand numbered / Limited edition to 200 copies
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"We met up on a below freezing day in Chicago at Northwestern University, I had spent an hour or so before meet up time watching enormous chunks of ice get thrashed against the shoreline, water spilling over and immediately freezing along the paved walkway while only my eyes peered out from behind my layers of sweaters and thick fur lined coats. Letting the scene dictate a vibe to enter the studio with.
Dan and I had done a session before at Elastic Arts, lots of beautiful things came out of it, but this felt like we had become familiar friends, developed a common language.
We set up, threw some loose ideas around, found our center and started in.
We tracked a few hours of material.
Dan then took the tracks home and turned them into ingredients for a good soup, and like a soup, blended and tasted, added a little more here and a little more there. A few “oh what if I added this?!” ideas got thrown in the mix, he stirred them around until we had something that warmed us through the cold. Sounds coming out of the speakers like steam of the broth, melodies poking through like spices, tones filling your pallet like a softened vegetable. We let it simmer and coalesce until we felt it was just right to serve. We shared our soup of sounds with Andrew Weathers to master, and he sent us back a sonic round of homemade sourdough fresh from the oven.
We hope this record can be a good meal shared with friends, nourishing.

Take Care Of Each Other"

(Lake Mary / Chaz Prymek)
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Lake Mary is the moniker of Chaz Prymek, a guitarist, composer, free improvisor and painter currently based in the US. Through spacious personal hymns exploring the wilderness of deep emotional narrative, Prymek’s long-form compositions and improvisations are boundless meditations on the landscapes, river ways, and wildlife, both external and personal. Perhaps most widely known as a founding member of the group Fuubutsushi, Prymek's work as Lake Mary leans sometimes more slow, open and pastoral, sometimes more visceral with prepared guitar and synthesizers, but can always be characterized by patience. A board member of Dismal Niche Arts, and founder of Yardwork Presents, Prymek's focus on curation and community for exploratory and expansive music and arts spills over into all his sonic works.

Daniel Wyche is a Chicago-based guitarist, composer, and improviser. Working with a wide range of physical preparations, extended techniques, and pedal instruments, his solo recordings and live performances are characterized by long-form structured improvisations and multichannel guitar. He has been a curator with the Elastic Arts Foundation in Chicago since 2013, where is work has been described as “crucial” by Dusted and “vital” by the Chicago Reader. In March of 2020, Daniel co-founded The Quarantine Concerts in collaboration with Chicago’s Experimental Sound Studio. The series has been widely praised as a model for online/streaming live music. Along with his solo guitar work, Daniel is involved in several ongoing collaborations, most notably the trio of Wyche, Mark Shippy (US Maple), and Ben Baker Billington, as well as new work with longtime collaborators like Patrick Shiroishi, Lake Mary, and many others.