Place & Distance | Cody Yantis
01 Within a Bamboo Box (5:48)
02 With Water (5:19)
03 A Cold Light (5:04)
04 A Memory Mosaic (3:56)
05 Unbuilt (2:41)
06 Of a Piece (4:17)
07 Before
Language (5:50)
08 At an Angle (7:70)
All
music by Cody Yantis, Recorded in Archuleta County, Colorado (Summer
& Fall 2012). Mastered by Sean McCann.
Photograph
by Tiffany Clendenin.
$10 / ANALOGPATH011 / Photo inlay
printed on traditional Japanese rice paper is included / cdr Limited 100
A Colorado
native, c. yantis (b. 1982) has lived in the Pacific Northwest, New York City,
and Dublin. Primarily guitar-based, his works also employ various other sources
of sound, such as the saxophone and field recordings. The results are often
instrumental and free-form, and they tend to reside in those grey-areas where
tonal / melodic elements drift toward noise. Experiences and ideas of
environment provide consistent motivations as yantis explores–sonically–what David
Teague has called “people
suiting posture to place.” Ultimately yantis strives to realize an idea of
landscape as sound. He also writes and works in visual media.
"Place
& Distance" is an album of raw fragments. Carefully prepared and
recorded, it’s orchestrated
in a way that disguises that this is actually an album of live electronics and
improvisation. It is a work of sensitivity, varied and organic. Listening, one
feels that much terrain was traversed in the process, and, yet, upon arriving,
it’s as though
the sounds have always existed. It is an album of traumatic surprise, in which
sounds gather only to quickly, and sometimes violently, break up. There’s an irony in
the way in which acoustic sound is dealt with so forcefully and abstractly.
This is an album of multiple selves, as though many are improvising all at
once, resulting in a kind of Zen dialogue between Yantis and the listener.
