Ben Lukas - Boysen Mirage Vinyl LP Ltd. Clear 2020

Track Listing

A1    Empyrean    
A2    Kenotaph    
A3    Medela    
B1    Venia    
B2    Clarion    
B3    Love    

Mirage, like its title suggests, feels like a sonic optical illusion — each piece containing sounds and techniques bent and processed to make them seem overexposed; the overly felt-y piano on Clarion, Daniel Thorne’s saxophone on Medela, the single note voice of Lisa Morgenstern splitting into different chords on Empyrean. It is detectable but also easily missed, like the double piano on Kenotaph that could be perceived as one, but is actually two pianos in two different rooms, separate countries even — one is digital while the other is acoustic.