


For their fourth album and second on Bead, the duo light.box — Alex Bonney (trumpet, electronics) and Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (bass guitar, electronics) — join tenor saxophonist Tom Challenger for their first-ever performance as a trio, traversing cinematic drones, microtonal detail, rapid-fire exchanges, and waves of distortion in an immersive, exploratory session.
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Alex Bonney-trumpet, electronics
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay-bass guitar, electronics
Tom Challenger-tenor saxophone
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UPC: 5904224874452
Label: Bead
Catalog ID: 51
Squidco Product Code: 36477
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: UK
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at City University, in London, UK, on February 28th, 2024.
"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."-Bead"
"light.box is the British experimental duo of trumpeter-electronics player-recording engineer-producer Alex Bonney and Canada-born bassist-electronics player-composer-educator ierre Alexandre Tremblay. Eyre is the fourth album of the duo, now augmented with British tenor sax player Tom Challenger (Bonney recorded and mixed albums of Challenger with Kit Downes, Alexander Hawkins and Mark Sanders. Challenger recorded a duo album with Trembly, Twill, Loop, 2022), recorded at City University in London in February 2024. It was mixed by Tremblay, and mastered by Bonney and Tremblay. Bonney took the cover photo.
Eyre captures the first-ever performance of this free improvising trio as it investigates a spectrum of timbres and textures in all its exploratory rawness. This ad-hoc trio relies on the deep rapport that developed over years of playing together in various other projects.
The labrum begins with "Lateral Sway", an intense and restless, electroacoustic collision of sounds, textures and improvisation tactics, with Challenger attempting to discipline the stormy, reverbrating electronics of light.box into a coherent narrative. The four-part suite "Chain Chimes" is introduced by Bonney's gentle, melodic theme, soon expanded and intensified into a playful free jazz form by Challenger, and then it is processed and mutated by light.box' subtle electronics. Later on, it morphs into a mysterious, alien ambient drone, but with delicate timbral and microtonal explorations, and only Challnger's processed breaths floating over the dense soundscape, and eventually it gravitates into post-techno, post-free jazz distorted explosion but with distant, acoustic, lyrical tones of Bonney's trumpet and Cahllanger's sax. The last piece "Covalent" concludes this exploratory journey by returning full circle to the layered, electroacoustic collision of sounds of the opening piece."-Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts
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Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Alex Bonney "Alex Bonney is a trumpeter, electronic musician and recording/mix engineer and producer based in London. He leads the Alex Bonney Quartet, is a member of Leverton Fox, light.box, Splice, BABs, Golden Age of Steam, Sefiroth, Olie Brice Quintet, plays in a duo with bassist Dave Kane, performs solo with electronics and in a variety of other improvising ensembles. When not performing Alex works with a variety of artists producing and engineering music for leading jazz, improvised and contemporary music record labels including ECM, HCR, Two Rivers, Whirlwind, Babel, Loop, Jellymould, Not Applicable and Edition. He also works as a music educator and photographer." ^ Hide Bio for Alex Bonney • Show Bio for Pierre Alexandre Tremblay "Pierre Alexandre Tremblay was born in 1975 in Montréal, Québec. He studied classical guitar and music theory from an early age, and as a teenager discovered bass guitar with Jean-Guy Larin, Sylvain Bolduc and Michel Donato. He also studied composition with Michel Tétrault, Marcelle Deschênes and Jonty Harrison. He earned his BA in music at the Université de Montréal in 1998 and his doctorate at the University of Birmingham in 2005. Since then, he has been teaching composition at the University of Huddersfield, in England. In 1993, he explored improvised music with Facteur X, which led to the formation of the contemporary jazz ensemble [iks] in 1996. He directed this ensemble for 11 years, recording seven albums, touring Europe and North America and spending three months in Senegal for a cultural exchange with traditional West African musicians. This journey was chronicled in Étienne Deslières�s documentary film Le journal de sable. He is currently collaborating on a variety of projects, playing bass guitar and manipulating sound on a laptop. He is a member of the contemporary jazz trio ars circa musicæ with Nicolas Stephan (saxophone) and Sébastien Brun (drums and machines), and the duet de type inconnu with Sylvain Pohu (guitar and laptop). He also works on pop music projects in studio as producer and bass guitar. Tremblay is now working on hybridizing his aesthetic approaches, which he feels complete each other, into a single, coherent poetic language. He composes fixed media, instrumental and mixed music, sometimes integrating video, improvisation and real-time processing. As a composer, he is fascinated by the listener�s experience rather than the process of creation. He considers the perception of form extremely important, and gives ample room to the emotional content, the poetic impact of the music. He also programs sound processing software, mostly using Max/MSP, and freelances as artistic and technical director for contemporary music projects. He devotes the rest of his time (sic) to reading, photography and his family. Founder of the no-tv collective, he does not own a functioning television set." ^ Hide Bio for Pierre Alexandre Tremblay • Show Bio for Tom Challenger "Tom Challenger (Born in Huddersfield) is a Saxophonist, Composer, Educator, Band Leader and Sideman. With an output characterised by it's musical breadth, he leads 'Brass Mask', which performs music inspired by the traditional street-musics and collective improvisation; 'Wedding Music' with Kit Downes in a Church Organ/Saxophone duo; Dice Factory, a jazz quartet exploring alternative methods of composition who released their debut album in 2012 to critical acclaim; and 'Ma.' the electro-improv outfit who have released 3 acclaimed albums." ^ Hide Bio for Tom Challenger
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Track Listing:
1. Lateral Sway 7:04
2. Chain Chimes Part 1 8:42
3. Chain Chimes Part 2 8:45
4. Chain Chimes Interlude 1:38
5. Chain Chimes Part 3 12:04
6. Covalent 10:23

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