"On the cassette arm of the Public Eyesore, we find new music from Charles LaReau. We know him as a member of Naturaliste (see Vital Weekly 1270) and his Fluxion release (Vital Weekly 1295). In 2005, he moved to South Korea, then Beijing and now lives in Hangzhou. LaReau has a label called Bluescreen. Already active since the late 1990s, his music uses field recordings, analogue synthesizers and cassettes.

On this new cassette, we find six pieces of "recordings/found sounds and various electronics", and three are live recordings. The title Stasis is well chosen, I think. In all of these pieces, there is not a lot of change. It is as if LaReau find a sweet spot in his environment and captured that particular moment. A ventilator shaft in a building, for instance. However, whatever else happens in such a location is not ignored. A door opening, for instance, gives a piece a random approach with, at times, a surprising result. Buzzing and whirring, these sounds appear, perhaps, a bit random and also a bit lo-fi, but these are also highly captivating pieces of music.

Because of the level of obscured sounds, it is never easy to figure out what is what here, I have no idea what I am hearing. I don't mind, as long as it sounds fascinating and that it surely does. In all its apparent minimalism, there is a lot to enjoy here. 'Airwaves' is LaReau's noisiest, but that's all relative. 'Trajectory', the final and longest piece on this cassette, is the only piece that may use an instrument. At least, that's what I think. It might be some field recordings being fed through stomp boxes. Fascinating stuff!"-Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly