Ghostly International/K7 / Republic Of Music/Universal Music
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Format
Performer
EAN
804297909127
Catalogue Number
GI 91CD
Additional notes
Album Notes
No longer a solo alias for multi-instrumentalist and producer Jakob Skott, Syntaks officially transforms into a duo on YLAJALI. The album features the wordless, largely textural voice of new member Anna Cecilia, who appeared as a guest on 2006's AWAKES. Inspired by Knut Hamsun's 1890 novel, HUNGER, and recorded a short distance from the location where the book was written, YLAJALI--named after the mysterious woman who eludes the protagonist, a shriveling drifter--nonetheless seems more affected by its sonic touchstones: lush dream pop and wistful IDM. It's a remarkable progression from the inert clunkiness that prevented AWAKES from rivaling the best of its new school of ambient dream pop class (Manual's ASCEND, Ulrich Schnauss' A STRANGELY ISOLATED PLACE). Even when it most resembles a Morr Music tribute to Harold Budd and the Cocteau Twins' THE MOON AND THE MELODIES, it is doubtlessly capable of rousing the most lapsed of shoegazers.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Twentytwohundred
2.
Love Camp 23
3.
Phantasmogoria
4.
She Moves In Colors
5.
Buio Omega
6.
Blue Sunshine
7.
Mistral Moon
8.
Shape Of Things To Come, The
9.
Dark Knight
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19/10/2009
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