yttriphie: an extremely slow motion explosion (Digital)

From Lux Atenea After his extraordinary musical project Soulwhirlingsomewhere and his collaborations with the legendary musical band Black Tape For A Blue Girl, next Friday, January 24th, the brilliant American artist Michael Plaster will officially present the debut album An extremely slow motion explosion of his new musical project Yttriphie. Published through the legendary record label Projekt Records in digital format, the album “An extremely slow motion explosion has been adorned with this elegant cover design where the plasticity of the image acquires this absolutely hypnotic chromatic harmony. A perfect visual beauty to visually describe the virtuosity in musical composition shown by Michael Plaster in the nine songs that make up his debut album. A conceptual avant-garde eclecticism where styles such as ambient and downtempo acquire a new sound dimension, transforming their hearing into a mental journey to another world, to another reality, through the brilliance in the definition of musical structures where artistic beauty is adored. This is how music-loving readers of Lux Atenea can enjoy it when they purchase this album, available on the official Projekt Records page on Bandcamp. A fascinating immersion in the most current and pioneering musical innovation from the hand of one of the artists who have left their indelible interpretive mark on the Projekt label, reborn like a radiant phoenix after two decades of mental and artistic empowerment oriented towards sound harmony. Inspired by the incessant movement and transformation that exists in this constantly changing universe, the album “An extremely slow motion explosion” is an elegant musical recreation of that universal impulse where nothing remains immutable, where nothing lasts forever, and where the cycle of creation and destruction never stops turning and advancing, shaping everything that surrounds us in our environment and, even, internally, our body, our mind, our vital energy… This is the artistic greatness of Michael Plaster culminated in this debut album as Yttriphie. We begin listening to this musical delicacy by immersing ourselves in the sound atmosphere of the first track, “Oh,” where everything will vibrate stealthily in this composition until the entrance of this instrumental plane for piano, with a languid and slow presence that will be accompanied by a melancholic instrumental plane for strings with an existential background in the past. The composition “Oh” is a decadent sound harmonization in an eclectic conceptual key where styles such as downtempo, ambient, and contemporary music are intertwined, projecting a reflective atmosphere where the present is totally conditioned by that still latent past. Then, the track “Siderius” will turn this ambient style into a spiritual dawn where melodic iridescences transform this musical scene into an evanescence of intoxicating beauty for our mind. A luminous crescendo that will increase its energy until it blurs the shapes and dimensions as if it were an attempt to bring the celestial to this space-time. A spectacular musical composition that will delight music-loving readers of Lux Atenea who seek in music that harmonious sound beauty completely removed from the dense, the material, the physical. The theme “Yrsta-fiirn” will appear much more solemn with that density in the air typical of summer afternoons, evolving musically with that laxity that leads to mental intoxication, losing the heavy sensation of the physical during that space of time as if the environment were inexorably dissolving. “Yrsta-fiirn” incites calm, to close the eyes and let the mind flow in those thoughts that reveal, and that distance the Self from the human until entering that intermediate mental state between wakefulness and dreaminess. With the track “Absrpt/nline” leading this sound dynamic towards darker musical terrain, here the ambient style fused with downtempo becomes somewhat dark, maintaining the languid as a deformation of a reality that refuses to disappear. Hence the vaporous atmosphere that is breathed in this environment as if time wanted to abandon it. If we had to put a soundtrack to the Kingdom of Hades, the track “Absrpt/nline” would be one of the most harmonious choices. With the song “Myrskiiyinen” featuring a more complex musical structure, the melodic presence of this piano will take us back to the melancholic as if it were the vision of a stormy rainy afternoon from behind a window. That blurred luminosity that provokes mental glances to the past and even existential spotlights on reality itself, on life itself, make the excellent song “Myrskiiyinen” one of the most innovative and attractive of this album, of course, with a melancholic sound charge that must be taken into account when listening to it. Later, the song “There is no sun” will appear in a heavenly and idyllic way, completely clearing the grey atmosphere of the previous song. An entry into the sacred, into that atmosphere that is breathed inside the temple when we visit it and it is empty, while the light from the stained glass windows illuminate its interior. Resplendent in its sonic evolution, the song “There is no sun” will surprise the music-loving reader of Lux Atenea with its hieraticism that will lead him to that state of mental sensitivity where music expands, where these melodious musical planes calm the thoughts, reorienting them towards that spiritual harmony so comforting where everything external is irrelevant. Leading into the song “Unsettled apsis”, the sacred will continue to be latent in this beautiful composition but with more fragile sound columns that bring it closer to the earthly. It is like seeing the celestial from the ground, raising your gaze to be fascinated by what you see but knowing that it is unattainable. Moments where longings appear to be immediately surpassed by harsh reality, everything becoming fleeting like the flame of a match shortly after being lit. With the track “Anexslom” giving a sense of crystalline fragility to this environment, here the sound experimentation is much clearer and more magical thanks to the expert artistic hands of Michael Plaster, creating a totally eclectic musical structure in its conceptual dimension until turning the track “Anexslom” into the most innovative of the entire album. Finally, the track “Pare” will take us to the epilogue of this musical work with a creative look where the sound is polished to its most brilliant state of artistic finesse, transforming this composition into a true delight. An extremely slow motion explosion, another discographic gem is presented again through the legendary American label Projekt Records to continue fascinating us with its musical charm. Enjoy it!!! -Félix V. Díaz