'Remember...Together' out now

Albino are an indie rock band formed in Hong Kong in Nov 2002. Now the band is comprised of Albert Ng (vocal, guitar), Ben Lai (guitar), Galant Lau (guitar), Jacob Yu (bass) and Van Law (drums). They have released three singles – Read My book (2008), Entire (2014) Remember…Together (2016) – with a fourth in the works, expected to be released in the winter of 2017.

2002-2006: Formation and early years Albert and the band's first bassist Liam Wong met at High School, and both of them were impressed by the 90's Britpop scene. Until Nov 2002, Albert introduced one of his friends, Joe to be the drummer of the band.

2006-2008: New line-ups After playing numbers of live shows, Liam was replaced shortly afterward by Martin Ko in May 2006. In Dec 2006, Martin left the band; meanwhile Galant Lau had joined as a second guitarist.

After few months without an official bassist, the band recruited Carina via the net in March 2007. ChiWai, formerly of Fantastic Day, played guitars and keyboards for the band from June 2007 to Nov 2008.

2008-2009: First single and breakup The band's debut single "Read My Book" was released on 1st July 2008, the free and limited 100 copies are considered amongst the fans through the Internet and some CD stores.

With the successful single tour, the band then found a manager who was interested of the band in the summer of 2008. During the recording sessions of the debut album in April 2009, the central member, Joe left the band to work on another project, and few days later Carina and Galant quit as well.

2009-2012: Semi-hiatus Soon after reconciling, Albert called up Simpson as the drummer in May 2009. After few rehearsals with Simpson, they finally recruited Louis Hon as the bassist, and Denver, the ex-Gaze member, be the guitarist of the band in July 2009. Louis left the band in October, and Timmi Ma, the former bassist of Survivor, joined the band in Dec 2009. This line-up just only played one show in March 2010. Denver left the band in May 2010; meanwhile Simpson had gone to New Zealand on his personal trip. Albino had been working on their second single before he left, but the recording sessions were never completed.

After the drummer came back from his trip in June 2011, Albino appeared a music festival with the new members of guitar and bass players, Chan Ka Long and Jacob Yu respectively; both were Albert's primary schoolmates. After 5 months on hiatus, Albert decided to play another show in 2012, with the new guitarist, Ben Lai.

2012-2014: Reunion and second single Albert and Ben reunited Joe, the original drummer, and started rehearsals again from Nov 2012. Although the previous members Liam and Galant had joined the reunion, eventually they left within a year. However, the rest of 3 members kept recording between February 2013 and January 2014.

The band’s second single Entire was released on 31st March 2014, five years since their last studio release. Same as their previous release, it was free and limited to 100 copies only.

Before the release of Entire, Joe decided to leave the band for another project. As the band is eager to be a full band in this critical moment, they recalled their previous guitarist and bassist, Galant and Jacob respectively. Jimmy Ma, was asked to join the band as a live session drummer, and to be replaced by Ki Leung in July 2014.

2014-present: New singles and another new drummer The band was recording their third single, Remember…Together, and playing few lives in 2015. The single was announced to be released in the summer of 2015, but eventually is to be released in 2016. However, Ki left the band in December 2015, and Van Law, to be their fourth official drummer from January 2016. After a year long mixing the tracks, ‘Remember…Together’, was released on 30th July 2016, as well as the music video of ‘Remember’. Their third 100 copies single was their last release in CD format, and expecting their music in the future would be released on the digital platforms only.

The band continues to play more shows in 2016, and will be recording their fourth single in the final quarter of 2016, Tuesday Morning. Title tracks are ‘Tuesday Morning’, ‘Man On Stage’, ‘Secret Garden’ and ‘The Towering Respect.