Bill Laurance Lumen Vinyl LP 2025

Tracklist:

1. Fils DOr
2. Lumen
3. Mantra
4. What You Always Wanted
5. Dove
6. Treehouse
7. Lovers Leap
8. Opal
9. Sera
10. Even After All

Its not often you find yourself recording alone in a church at 3am. Im not religious, but I experienced something unique while playing through the night as the streets around me slept. It felt like the music was telling me what to play and I was the passenger. Lumen grew out of a variety of compositional seeds from composed songs that remain true to the score, leaving little room for freedom, to wide open improvisations recorded in the moment with nothing predetermined. Its in the space between composition and improvisation where the magic happens and where, if the musicians are willing, the music can lead. I recorded day and night on a Yamaha grand and an upright felted piano. It felt like some sort of solo retreat: sitting in a building of faith through the night,