Light.Box, Tom Challenger

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.

"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

"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” - Dominic Valvona, Monolith Cocktail

"An intense and restless, electroacoustic collision of sounds, textures and improvisation tactics" - Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts