Suññata

Label: Home Normal
Date: November 17, 2020

Suññata is the experience of encountering the non-self, of a sound and its reflection meeting in empty space

A collaboration with James Murray featuring minimal resonance of emotive piano and reactive sound design

Mastered by Ian Hawgood

Cover artwork by James Murray and Mike Lazarev

Full album is available for streaming and purchase on Bandcamp and all digital platforms.

Selected as one of Top 10 Best EPs in 2010 by Textura

It’s easy to zone out when listening to this beautiful album, but paradoxically the record is also one of great focus. Murray and Lazarev focus on finding emptiness and peace, searching an inner Universe rather than the outer, physical world. Music is the great mediator between the two, and it speaks nothing but truth.
— FLUID RADIO
The seven instrumentals on Suññata are often inordinately pretty, a few so rich in melody they’re closer to song-styled, post-classical miniatures than ambient vignettes.
— TEXTURA
The seven pieces have a dream like quality, one which has a slight blurriness that removes any sharp edges which allows for the listener to fall deep into the pieces.
— DRIFTING, ALMOST FALLING
Lazarev‘s post-classical piano compositions are colored by the delicate textures created by Murray which feel like a natural echo reflecting back the soul of the piano.
— AMBIENTBLOG