Chaz Prymek is a Salt Lake City-based guitarist, improviser, and interdisciplinary artist. Best known for his work under the moniker LAKE MARY and as a member of the ‘ambient-jazz quartet’ FUUBUTSUSHI. His music, which bridges fingerstyle guitar, ambient, and free improvisation, delves into the spaciousness of deep emotional narratives and personal hymns.
Prymek’s long-form compositions and improvisations for acoustic, electric, and lap-steel guitars are boundless meditations on landscapes and riverways, as well as reflections on what it means to be human. His work has resulted in nearly two dozen solo and collaborative releases, featured on labels such as Whited Sepulchre, Keeled Scales, Laaps Records, Aural Canyon, Ramble Records, and more.
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What began as a solo project from Chaz Prymek has turned into a prairie-raised choogle ensemble. Streaks of motorik rhythms occasionally bless these astral country ditties, but mostly they chase the sunlight.
Lars Gotrich, NPR
With almost two dozen albums to Lake Mary’s name, Prymek has taken his time mastering a sound that’s simultaneously eclectic and comforting.
Best Ambient on Bandcamp, Oct 2022
Lake Mary delivers a masterpiece with Slow Grass, a remarkable balance of something profoundly personal and communally welcoming. Prymek’s grief in Slow Grass is shared—its music expands among and around its listeners as a comfortable companion. The experience of loss here is beautiful in the sadness.
Katie Hatzfeld, Slug Magazine
Chaz Prymek strings shadows together to uncover the hidden remnants of past lives and alternative memories lost in the ether.
Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis