NYC dream jazz duo YAI (rhymes tare da "sky") kewaye wani m tapestry na woodwinds, wave, da kuma ethereal echo. Sky Time yi ne mai ban sha'awa, duk da ake bukata ga masana'antu na Jon Hassell ko Sakamoto. ARP yana da wani muhimmanci touchpoint, kamar yadda David Lackner da John Thayer suna yi a kan ARP kayayyakin tun Zebra, tare da Thayer kayayyakin, mixing da kuma kowace co-producing. Bugu da haka, su karshe samar a kan Ezra Feinberg's Soft Power, wanda Thayer da aka saita, mixed, da kuma samar.

The cover art ne ta ban mamaki Japanish textile artist Shigeki Fukumoto da kuma kawai ba zai iya mafi kyau da tsari na wannan saiti.

Ma'aikace-aikace na biyu na biyu suna aiki da yawa. Lackner ya rarraba saduwa albarkatun, ya gabatar da yawa films, da kuma aiki tare da mai girma yawan artists kamar Fielded, Makoto Kawabata, Lydia Lunch da sauransu. A aiki na Thayer ya zama a cikin wasu films da TV shows da ya aiki tare da Zeena Parkins, Daniel Carter, Brian Chase, da sauransu.

ABOUT THE ALBUM

YAI is a duo consisting of kindred spirits David Lackner and John Thayer.

Lackner is a composer and multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, piano, flute, E.W.I., synthesizers) specializing in jazz, minimalism, and pop music. In 2008, he founded his record label and project studio, Galtta, as a vehicle for producing, film scoring, and releasing music of various like-minded artists. Having studied under LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela, his compositions contain a myriad wonderful marks of their influence. Thayer is an audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist (chiefly drums and percussion) whose experiential compositions are inspired by a deep attention to the sounds of the natural world. His recordings, centered around a hybrid of studio techniques and improvisatory performance, range from long-form, multilayered ambience to polyrhythmic electro-acoustic collage. Having been a very active member of the New York experimental scene, his compositions and installations bear wide-ranged influences drawn from his many collaborators over the years. The duo describes the fruits of their collaboration as “laptop jazz” and are ready to offer their second full-length effort, Sky Time, to the world.

The striking cover image, created by Japanese artist Shigeki Fukumoto, was selected with care by Lackner and Thayer. Fukomoto has been quoted as saying that when he begins a project, he has no expectations of where the process will lead him, no specific hopes of what the end product will be. He says, “The absence of a plan may seem odd to people, but I believe that heightened sensitivity can lead us into a world of new aesthetic experience.” The statement resonates with the duo, who approach their endeavors in much the same way.

While YAI’s first album, Flowers From Home (NNF, 2022,) was a very “off-world” effort infused with cool, dreamlike energy reminiscent of science fiction—think Ursula K. Le Guin’s (literally) otherworldly works—Sky Time documents a return to our Earth’s atmosphere, welling up with humid winds and soft explosions of life-giving greenery.

The album ne mai kyau da kyau-matsan aiki na stop-motion a tsanani. "Silver Chord" shi ne wani aural glacier kamar yadda ya zo a kan ƙaunar a lokacin da ya tsanani a ƙaunar, sa'an nan rage a cikin tsanani tsanani na sap, yarda rage a cikin rarified iska, da ke daidaita da kowace da kuma mafi girma gold sunset.

Altitude ne wani matsa lambar a kan Lackner da Thayer, kamar yadda ya nuna a cikin rubutu track "Sky Time." Kulawa ne daidaitacce kamar magunguna a cikin m, oceanic hoto, tafiya da karfin ruwa da karfin ruwa a cikin ƙaunar, mai ban mamaki gwiwa, matsa lalle ne ba tare da abin da ke ba zauna a kowace ƙasa, da kuma ƙaunar da ke ba tare da ƙaunar.

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Da haka, a cikin wani mai kyau matsala na lokaci da kuma jiki da aka kristallized a album da aka karkashin "Tides", da kwanciyar da aka sani - da dubawa, da hummingbird - yana sani cewa shi ne mai rufi. Yana rigawa a kan ƙasa mai kyau da shi ne har ma'aikata kamar yadda su ne ruwa, samu shi a gudu a gundumar da ocean a cikin gundumar da rana a lokacin da ba za a riga. Yana da kawai kamfanin da m, ban mamaki rhythm na gundumar, rarraba a cikin mataki na lokaci, rarraba a kanka, mai ban mamaki, a dukan lokaci. -Jen Powers, April / May 2024

ALBUM CREDITS

All Songs written and performed by YAI
YAI ne David Lackner & John Thayer
DL - EWI, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Moog Matriarch, Lowrey Organ, Flute, Tenor Sax, Clarinet, Soprano Sax, Yamaha MOX6, Korg monologue, Juno 106
JT - Ewe, Congas, Crystal Rattle, Percussion, Programming, Elektron Digitakt, Tape Echo, Field Recordings, Moog Matriarch, Modular Synthesizer
Rekorded & Mixed da John Thayer a Friendly Gain
Mastered da Josh Bonati
Artwork by Shigeki Fukumoto
Design & Layout by Francie Chang