(1) Icelandic producer Yagya (Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson) has been creating atmospheres through melody and sounds for more then a decade. A definitive member of the Thule Musik collective, Yagya also is known for his work as half of Sanasol and also the famed Plastic. A student of computer science at the University of Iceland Yagya spends his free time creating music on his computer. He concentrates on atmospheres and moods and tries to reflect the beauty of the world around him in the sounds of his music. He seeks influence in the works of Gas, Philip Glass, Basic Channel, Brian Eno and anything that is true to itself and it’s ideas. Yagya concentrates on the softer side of music and avoids heavy rhythms. He finds harmony and beauty in the simple sounds of nature and wants his music to flow naturally through the listener.
(2) Guõmundsson in fact displays a desire to dig deeper on Will I Dream… than in Rhythm of Snow, setting the sonic scene with “Wind and Thunder,” a long fade-in two-chord mantra of background-brooding syn-tone-drone and occluded throb that builds and builds imperceptibly but, teasingly, never reaches crescendo. Then, as all-stops-out as the opener was reined in, “Choose” goes for the jugular with a space-hopping thump-athon of grandstanding abandon, all sky-high and wide keyboard wash and a nagging lockstep basspulse. On “As It Is” a quite different accommodation is reached between the jack and the dive, with all bottom-end rug being pulled out from under but a fully loaded topsoil of densely mulched chords being sprung, and beatbox-styled underpinnings being allowed to range free, flanged and filtered. “We Lose Ourselves” sees serially looped layers of drone and chord-pass shift and re-shift to a depth-sounding bass figure resounding in hypno-bliss. And so it goes until the seemingly endless loops spool out and fade.
As the recording progresses, the thought occurs that Will I Dream… is the nearest anyone has got to an ambient-dub-techno epic (not that anyone has attempted such before). In fact it might be observed in minor criticism of what is an otherwise enjoyable work that there is something of a battle (though since it’s doesn’t prove to be serious, let’s call it a tussle) between the element of widescreen drama and that of spatial minimalism, evidenced in a distinctly maximal production style which tends to want to squeeze sound into every free bit of space – space that strains to remain uncluttered. A touch more variation and frugality here would have lent greater light and shade, and with it greater effect (and affect). And a final note of caution: don’t rush to judge the musical content of Will I Dream… by its sleeve, which resides (probably knowingly) somewhere between twee fairy tale illustration and 70s/80s fantasy art-cheese (almost a Roger Dean update) (Yeah, but it’s still cool as all get out!—Ed.), a semiotic which evokes, for this listener at least, an infelicitously skewed melange of prog throwback, new age dippiness and drug-addled trance fodder, none of which do justice to the spirit of this album.
Tracklisting:
1 Wind And Thunder (6:43)
2 Choose (8:16)
3 As It Is (6:43)
4 But If These Words Are Heard (7:39)
5 We Lose Ourselves (8:05)
6 Their Blood Is Black And Yellow (7:13)
7 Like The Noise Of Great Waters (7:49)
8 Change (7:29)
9 A Very Long Daydream (7:05)
10 When They Stood, They Let Down Their Wings (6:50)
Label: Sending Orbs
Catalog#: SO 005
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Netherlands
Credits: Artwork By – Jeroen Advocaat // Mastered By – Arnar Helgi Aðalsteinsson // Producer – Aðalsteinn Guðmundsson
Genres: ambient techno / ambient dub / deep house
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Bitrate: 192
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Grade: 10/10
Шедевр в области задумчивого даб-техно. Праздник для воображения. (Отпадный артворк. А-ля «Куда приводят мечты»)
