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Bryan Teoh – Bumblebees and Amber17.12.10

Bumblebees and Amber by Bryan Teoh

I met Bryan Teoh in the hallway outside of the Lawrence University jazz room. It was 2001 and we were both auditioning as first year students for the school jazz ensemble. That jazz room ended up being a pretty special place. We chewed through probably hundreds of collaborative projects, feverishly assembled one-off bands, and all-day jam sessions in our five years together in Appleton. After college, he moved out east to NYC with a group of mutual friends and has been relentlessly exploring a pretty breathtaking number of projects and disciplines in his creative work since. There’s the blasted laptop-infused post-folk as Always Tokyo, nintendo rock as 8bit bEtty, and in the last few years he’s become an active live visualist to boot.

Bumblebees and Amber doesn’t fit exactly into any of these projects but the connections are everywhere: the deft counterpoint of 8bit bEtty, the aching melody of Always Tokyo, the textural detail of his solo laptop microsound projects all come to play here. It’s telling that the mp3 is simply tagged ‘Bryan Teoh’ I think. This is personal, moving music for winter nights on that long train ride home.

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