Tristan de Liège, Ty Rex Emael, Bryan Baker, To.ne
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¬‿¬Experimental cello, improvised piano and synth soundscapes
For Ty Rex, the piano is where unanswered questions and paradoxes find rest. Born to religious zeal, they found an early refuge in music that transcended black and white beliefs, confines and expression, beyond the notes and keys themselves.
It was the eventual severance from this upbringing that birthed Rumors of War (2021), eight improvisations mapping the collapse of everything they knew as real and true, alongside the world's grappling with Covid.
An encounter with Alice Coltrane's ashram community reconnected them to their own devotional language. From this redemption, they co-founded Open House, a Los Angeles series of multi-hour improvised gatherings where audiences bring cushions and contemplative practices into shared devotional space.
Their sound draws on Rachmaninoff's Romanticism and Ravel's Impressionism, blending classical piano with spiritual and ambient jazz rooted in lineages of liturgy, contemplation, and ecstasy. For listeners drawn to Laraaji, Nils Frahm, Masakatsu Takagi, and Ganavya, Ty Rex offers improvised piano as spiritual practice.
Recent work includes Movement: Demos from Rigidity & Recovery (2024), A Final Period of Darkness, Then the Light(2025), and the trio Arcturus on Ólafur Arnalds' OPIA Compilation Vol. 3.
Tristan de Liège is a producer and composer based in Los Angeles. His work reaches across a variety of genres, from neoclassical to electronic and jazz, and he collaborates abundantly within the Los Angeles underground music scene.
EMÆL is a Los Angeles–based cellist, singer-songwriter, and producer whose music blurs the lines between genres. With three albums and two EPs to his name, he has carved out a distinct sound through the manipulation of his voice and cello, weaving soundscapes that feel at once intimate and expansively transportive. His songs often turn inward, reflecting on the human experience while pushing sonic boundaries with textures and sonics never heard before. Listeners and collaborators alike describe EMÆL’s music as an invitation to step outside the ordinary and into a world shaped by curiosity, emotion, and innovation.
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