Artist: Yayoba
Title: A Maze of Glass
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Not Not Fun
Genre: Electronic, Experimental, Ambient
Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 46 min
Total Size: 228 MB


4th-world fusion trio Yayoba triangulate warped constellations of electronics, woodwinds, hand percussion, and field recordings via their respective bases in Brighton (UK), Turku (FIN), and Wiesbaden (DE), coaxing a sound they describe as “like a beam of light passing through translucent glass walls in a labyrinth.” Comprised of legacy experimentalists Paul Wilson (F. Ampism), Jani Hirvonen (Uton), and Johannes Schebler (Baldruin) – the latter two of whom also moonlight in “crypto-botanical” electro-acoustic unit Grykë Pyje – the group operate spontaneously and post-geographically, file-sharing sketches, textures, and FX until an alien synergy takes hold.

A Maze Of Glass collects 16 of the project’s headiest and most hyper-sensory improvisations into a 47-minute microcosmic odyssey of fractal, radiophonic exotica. Circuit-bent devotionals dovetail into pixelated mists; diaphanous lifeforms lurch through psychoactive caverns; cybernetic miasmas dance and dissipate. It’s music both placeless and perplexing, undulating and uncanny, hieroglyphic transmissions echoing from the depths.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Yayoba - Radiant Reflections (2:02)
1.02 - Yayoba - Spectrolite Sprawl (2:23)
1.03 - Yayoba - Synchronised Movements (2:40)
1.04 - Yayoba - Transformations of the 3-Way Mirror (3:10)
1.05 - Yayoba - Lure Calls (2:07)
1.06 - Yayoba - Strange Morning (3:03)
1.07 - Yayoba - Night Flight Visions (3:12)
1.08 - Yayoba - Uniformity and Dispersal (2:24)
1.09 - Yayoba - Shallow Breath - Wide Eyes (2:04)
1.10 - Yayoba - Swarm Dives (3:00)
1.11 - Yayoba - Bustle on a Glass Street (1:52)
1.12 - Yayoba - Peculiar Formations on a Horizon (4:40)
1.13 - Yayoba - Shapeshifter's Dream (3:11)
1.14 - Yayoba - Whirling Storm Magic (4:15)
1.15 - Yayoba - Farewell to Adventure (2:48)
1.16 - Yayoba - At the Centre of the Labyrinth (3:25)