In Praise of Shadows, by Yuen Chee Wai & Lasse Marhaug

In Praise of Shadows

by Yuen Chee Wai & Lasse Marhaug

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	1.	Part One 17:48		buy track
	2.	Part Two 19:41		buy track

about

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.

“In Praise of Shadows” is co-released by Pica Disk (PICA045) and Ujikaji Records (UJI-010LP) as a vinyl LP, as well as streaming/download via Bandcamp. The LP features liner notes by Marhaug, as well as photography by Philipp Aldrup.

Reviews:

Soundohm "Best of 2018"

"AMN Pick of the Week" - Avant Music Network, 6 March 2018

"Dette albumet bør være obligatorisk i enhver musikkelskers samling." ("This album should be mandatory in any music collector's collection.") - musikkfranorge.blogspot.com/2018/03/yuen-chee-wai-lasse-marhaug-in-praise.html

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released March 1, 2018

Yuen Chee Wai - Computer (2006), Guitar / electronics (2016)
Lasse Marhaug - Computer (2006), Electronics (2016)

Recorded at FluxUs, Singapore, April 2006 and the best studio in Oslo, Norway, January 2016

Produced by Yuen Chee Wai and Lasse Marhaug
Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug
Graphic design by Yuen Chee Wai
Photo by Philipp Aldrup

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