an extremely slow motion explosion is the debut ambient release from yttriphie (Michael Plaster of soulwhirlingsomewhere, the legendary 90s Projekt ethereal act). Following a nearly 20-year absence, Michael returns with vapory music that is mellow and muted. The album’s long waves of atmospheric crescendos sometimes nearly fall away to silence, while at other times they trace out clear paths in diverging passages. Soft, synthesized patches wade their way in and out of laceworks of thick, incandescent clouds. Pianos knell quietly over crystalline pads. Gentle, feathery, sunless, isolated, dreamy.
Michael reflects, “I want the experience of listening to the music to be like going into a tranquil, flowing river. I want it to be muted enough that it can take you along effortlessly, but I also want it to be complex enough that one can be swallowed by the melodies like little shrouded stories being slowly woven together.
“Without getting too sciency, the album title concerns how everything in existence — literally every THING — is an explosion. Like a time-directed flow of energy being released. Whether chemical, atomic, electrical, whatever… it’s all simply energy trying to dissipate. The law of entropy. From the massive big bang that created the universe down to your blood cells releasing co2, it’s all just flow. An unceasing emptying out of every single particle. Kinda sad, really.”
Beautiful vapory music filled with longing and atmosphere.
Track List:
1 oh
2 siderius
3 yrsta-fiirn
4 absrpt/nline
5 myrskiiyinen
6 there is no sun | video at YouTube
7 unsettled apsis
8 anexslom
9 pare
Name-Your-Price at Bandcamp