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01. Yann Novak - Dark, Perplexing, Ruptures of Plane
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02. Yann Novak - A Biochemical Cascade
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03. Yann Novak - The Ecstasy of Annihilation
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04. Yann Novak - Silence Will Hang in the Air (When We Are Gone)
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ARTIST
NOVAK, YANN
TITLE
Lifeblood of Light and Rapture
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ROOM40
CATALOG #
RM 4159CD
RM 4159CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
6/25/2021
On
Lifeblood of Light And Rapture
, Los Angeles artist
Yann Novak
contours a phosphorescent listening experience that shimmers with a hazy glow; like neon in fog. Each piece bares his trademarked sense of patience and unerring harmony, but more so than any previous editions Novak opens up the presence of these elements to create a more absorbing sensibility. "A Biochemical Cascade" captures the experience in a snapshot, as gentle eruptions of harmony fold and melt over the top of one another, each eruption seemingly more luminous than the wave before it. The result is a wholly consuming sense of tidal ecstasy.
From Yann Novak: "When I began working on
Lifeblood of Light and Rapture
I was thinking a lot about both my personal and society's tendencies towards nihilism. When I was in grade school, I was taught that 2020 would be the turning point in our collective fight against climate change -- that if we did not change by then, there would be no turning back. After learning this at a young age, I watched helplessly as little was done to save the planet. It made me certain that I would not live to see past 2020 . . . Now that 2020 has come and gone, I have the luxury of hindsight. I can look back and see that so many of my decisions were made not to destroy myself, but in order to self-medicate. In my teens and twenties, the world was a difficult place to inhabit, but I could use chemicals and other distractions to cope. Similarly, as it turns out, this is also the story of the industrial, technological, and digital revolutions. Even though the intention of these eras was to make the world an easier place to live in, most of the progress attributed to them over the last two centuries has directly contributed to the climate crisis. On
Lifeblood of Light and Rapture
, I wanted to explore this parallel -- that so many of the things we do to try and make this world livable also contribute to its destruction. Formally, this album follows the path I set out on with
Slowly Dismantling
(RM 4112LP, 2019). I sought to express myself in a more immediate and honest way through the use of digital and analog synthesis. With
Lifeblood of Light and Rapture
, I built upon this same path; but I also tried to imagine the listening experience over the process of making it, focusing solely on the pure pleasure of listening..."
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