{"id":1716,"date":"2025-10-21T09:08:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T07:10:28","slug":"1716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"TAL 38 \/ Robert Lax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TAL 38
ROBERT LAX
Living in the present

LP plus free DL

Release: 20. September 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Worldwide distribution:
MORR
Forced Exposure
Boomkat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robert Lax \u00a0[1]
Nicolas Humbert [1]
Carina Khorkhordina [2]
Miki Yui [5]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A
1\u00a0\u2014 Where do i begin? – Part 1\u00a0\u2014 4:15
2\u00a0\u2014 Where do i begin? – Part 2\u00a0\u2014 2:31
3\u00a0\u2014 Where do i begin? – Part 3\u00a0\u2014 7:24
4\u00a0\u2014 Where do i begin? – Part 4\u00a0\u2014 5:50

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5\u00a0\u2014 One moment passes, another comes on – Part 1\u00a0\u2014 5:49
6\u00a0\u2014 One moment passes, another comes on – Part 2\u00a0\u2014 0:58
7\u00a0\u2014 One moment passes, another comes on – Part 3\u00a0\u2014 1:55
8\u00a0\u2014 One moment passes, another comes on – Part 4\u00a0\u2014 3:30
9\u00a0\u2014 One moment passes, another comes on – Part 5\u00a0\u2014 6:11<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Living in the present is an album built around the work of American minimalist poet, Robert Lax (1915-2000) who is widely praised for his artistic concept of reduction, in which a pause becomes as important as the things said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album brings together the sound of Robert Lax reading his poetry, narrative field recordings by Nicolas Humbert and subtle yet imaginative timbres by Carina Khorkhordina (trumpet) and Miki Yui (electronics) who is also behind the final mixing of the album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living in the present is drawing from an archive of audio recordings originally made by film maker Nicolas Humbert while shooting a film on Robert Lax entitled Why Should I Buy A Bed When All That I Want Is Sleep?, ( Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel, Germany, 1999) The film was made on the Greek island of Patmos where Lax has lived withdrawn for 3 decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 25 years after the premiere of Why Should I Buy A Bed When All That I Want Is Sleep?, Humbert, Khorkhordina and Yui are revisiting the original audio material and patiently open worlds within worlds, pointing to new harmonic textures and isolating timbres, synchronizing different layers of time and traces of various locations into a new composition in its own right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some ways this album feels like an expansion of the work Humbert and Penzel did with Lax across six years, between 1993 and 1999, where they developed a unique intimacy in their textual-visual collaboration. On two long pieces, for each side of the album, \u201cWhere do i begin\u201d and \u201cOne moment passes, another comes on\u201d respectively \u2013 Yui\u2019s electronics and Khorkhordina\u2019s trumpet interweave beautifully with Humbert\u2019s field recordings, in a manner that shadows the reflective reduction of Lax\u2019s poetry. Indeed, it’s no surprise that Lax\u2019s poetry draws musicians into its orbit; it offers the curious a welcoming reduction in which only individual words and syllables represent the essence of language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lax\u2019s poetry is notable for its qualities of near-stillness and its capacity to pause the reader\u2019s thought, asking them to hold the sensuality of language for an extended, quietly revelatory moment. His readings on this album share a similar cadence, interested in settling with syllables, with single or several words, for an extended time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, Living in the present unfolds with unforced grace and poetics \u2013 one moment passes, then another comes on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Jon Dale, Melbourne<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TAL 38ROBERT LAXLiving in the present LP plus free DL Release: 20. September 2025 Worldwide distribution: MORRForced ExposureBoomkat Robert Lax \u00a0[1]Nicolas Humbert [1]Carina Khorkhordina [2]Miki Yui [5] A 1\u00a0\u2014 Where do i begin? – Part 1\u00a0\u2014 4:152\u00a0\u2014 Where do i begin? – Part 2\u00a0\u2014 2:313\u00a0\u2014 Where do i begin? – Part 3\u00a0\u2014 7:244\u00a0\u2014 Where do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-release"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}