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Yikii - Chorion
Cat. Nr: DN026
Format: DL
Release Date: January 5, 2023
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/Chorion

The eerie lullaby of Yikii’s vast creative universe continues with her latest LP, Chorion. Following the anxious beauty of 2021’s ambient, post-club, and avant-pop-inspired Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 album, the Changchun-based artist carries her expansive experiments in harmony and dissonance onto her timeless gothic electroacoustics that operate at the nexus of the past, the present, and the future. Here, avant-garde contemporary classical meets utilitarian videogame composition to create a wholly immersive sonic environment that’s as ravishing as it is terrifying.

Named after the life-giving embryonic membrane that eventually forms the placenta, Chorion takes its conceptual cue from science-fiction writer Andy Weir’s acclaimed short story, The Egg. In it, a god and a dead man on the threshold of reincarnation discuss the notion of a Universal One—the unity of everyone and all things. On Chorion, the idea of whether we are "every human being who ever lived" is presented less as a question and more an inarguable fact, in a soundscape built from a glut of musical material created and collected by Yikii between 2018 and 2021.

Haunting the album cover is a painting of a Rhaphidophoridae—the artist’s entomophobia (an extreme fear of insects) projected onto the spiny silhouette of this blind and unpredictable subterranean cricket, reminiscent of the parasitic arthropods of first-person shooter games like BioShock and Resident Evil. Trained pianist Yikii applies these solitary pursuits of the digital era to her experiments in microtonal music and special tunings, which delve into the dark recesses of the cumulative subconscious. From the queasy hallucinations of her “Dream Cassette” reworking to the acutely physical rhythms of “Melinoë” and “Mongolian Worm,” there’s a twisted interiority to Chorion, where a battery of sonic, conceptual, and emotional material implodes in a dazzling vortex of violent intensity.

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Design by Yikii & Niels Wehrspann

Yikii - Melinoë 墨利诺厄

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Soundtrack for Madlen Hirtentreu's Exhibition in Eskişehir, Türkiye.
Photograph by Madlen Hirtentreu
Music written, sung, composed, produced, arranged and mixed by Yikii

Yomi & Yami, Shepherds of the Bunker

lyrics:

Laid together I find myself thinking out loud
Hand with hand forever baby we made it here now
Lost in your eyes, your voice I'm lost in your sound
Heart with heart together with our heads in the clouds

Baby ever after isn't long enough
Baby in your arms I feel I'm coming up
Blooming up the flowers when u just show up
Polish off my wounds I feel I'm strong enough

I feel I'm strong enough
I feel I'm strong enough

I think along your lines and dots
Somewhere along your veins and plots
I draw a circle where I'll be lost
Your skin, the canvas where I belong

I think along your lines and dots
Somewhere along your veins and plots
I draw a circle where I'll be lost
Your skin, the canvas where I belong

Veins (demo)

i bleed

still lonely

my old pc broke down two weeks ago - so I bought a new one and felt like starting an album project from scratch, which turned in to this fun little album inspired by recent road trip around tasmania :))
download/buy for the good old "name your price" on Bandcamp from the buylink <3

firestorm

@pierceleech
instagram.com/escapechina

vocals: Min Ye

motorsebesség állításával kevésbé traumatizálja a bőrt.
Folyamatosan kifeszíteni,
Ekis lányt  megöleli az első ajtón érkező embert,
Árnyék Alak az idegrendszert megkörnyékező méreg gyorsasága alatt éri el a hallucináció okozta halálfélelmet.
Április 29 06:07 
A jelen valósága folyton változik, még is mi lehetne ebben elszomorító.

i bleed

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