Hopeful Monster, by Eve Egoyan + Mauricio Pauly

Hopeful Monster

by Eve Egoyan + Mauricio Pauly

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	1.	Spore 04:20
	2.	Dive (wait) 03:08
	3.	Braid 06:39
	4.	Dialing with abandon 07:49
	5.	Stilled shadow 05:20
	6.	Single spore flexing gently 02:29
	7.	Agree no frown 04:15
	8.	Taper hold, taper 06:29
	9.	Height 08:46
	10.	Effot grind braid 06:56

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In experimental music, artists are often praised for taking risks, yet it's seldom that the conditions that inspire and enable their plunges into yet-unknown realms are discussed. The powerful music found on Hopeful Monster, the partnership between acclaimed Toronto-based pianist Eve Egoyan and Costa Rican-born, British composer-musician Mauricio Pauly (who now lives and works in Vancouver), is a testament to the vitality of these very conditions.

Their collaboration began in 2018 when Pauly visited Egoyan's Toronto studio to improvise informally. There was an uncanny immediacy that emerged throughout this initial session. The mutual sense of trust, curiosity, and reciprocity was so potent that it carried them through four years of remote audio-file-swapping until their subsequent encounter. The occasion of this second meeting: recording this very album.

The music on Hopeful Monster is audibly propelled by their spontaneous interaction—the exchanges feel improvised inasmuch as they radiate urgency and wonder, or even that aforementioned glimmer of risk. However, it's also grounded—deeply so—in a distinctive joint vision, one that imparts cohesion, intricacy and exerts evocative weight. Yet this apparent vision isn't so much the product of Egoyan and Pauly's intense scrutiny and discussion about what they're doing. In fact there was precious little deliberation and premeditation involved in what's presented on this album. Instead, it sprung directly from the close-knit dynamic that established itself in their earliest music-making.

- Nick Storring

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released October 6, 2023

EVE EGOYAN: acoustic and augmented piano (manipulation of a modelled piano as well as acoustic samples)

MAURICIO PAULY: live samplers, live processing, dekeyed chromaharp, drum bundle

James Perella: Recording Engineer
Murat Çolak: Mixing and Mastering Engineer
Mauricio Pauly: Audio Editor
Alex Abahmed: Assistant Audio Editor
Jessica Han: Video Recording, Photograph
Lisa Kiss Design: Graphic Design

No Hay Discos: NHD 004

Generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts.

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Eve Egoyan + Mauricio Pauly Vancouver, British Columbia

Upcoming performances:
Oct 29 @ U Victoria
Nov 4 @ Roundhouse - Modulus Festival (Vancouver)
Nov 11 @ Music Gallery (Toronto)
Nov 13 @ Sala Rossa - No Hay Banda (Montreal)

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