As unusual experimental recordings so, this certainly stands out as one of the most unusual. Perhaps not sonically – although we’ll return to that shortly. In terms of process, however, it’s out there. ‘Yusei’ is, according to the press release, ‘a sound creation made up of myriads of voices’: specifically, some 5,000 unique voices, layered and organically blended to create oceanic washes of sound. The process also involved the use of specific microphones that enable the recording of ultrasonic waves inaudible to the human ear. To ask ‘why bother?’ would be to miss the point: the pint is that tmymtur’s attention to detail is meticulous. There’s a clear rationale behind it, too: the same undetectable sounds are prevalent in nature, in flowing water and wind blowing through trees. It’s believed that these frequencies have the capacity to relax the human brain. There’s a logic to this, and while ‘Yusei’ is clearly not an ambient chillout album in the conventional sense, the result is essentially the same.
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The nine tracks – different versions of the same piece, ‘05.09.2012/0’ – as remixed by various artists, notably including Stephan Mathieu and Riyoshi Sakamoto collaborator Christopher Willits, all flow together. In truth, it’s difficult to distinguish one remix from another, but that’s perhaps a good thing: ‘Yusei’ is a work to be taken holistically, both literally and metaphorically. Drink it in, and unwind.
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