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Yaz Lancaster - AmethYst (2023)

Yaz Lancaster - AmethYst (2023)

BAND/ARTIST: Yaz Lancaster

This collection of collaborations presents meditation on time as a process to be beheld, whether the time be the early hours of the morning as a party wanes or the time before we can be together again. Begun in 2019 with Keaton Garrett’s “come as you are”, the full-length audiovisual album of commissions and collaborations unfolded. In addition to self-composed interludes, “AmethYst” features pieces by Amanda Berlind, Gramm Drennen, Keaton Garrett, BAKUDI SCREAM, Andrew Noseworthy, and Phonodelica, with a bonus track by Leilehua Lanzilotti. “Y” opens Yaz Lancaster’s debut record, greeting us with glittering swells, a pensive repeated melody, and a voicemail from Lancaster’s mother. “Just calling to check up on you” she says. Phonodelica’s “Monroe Park” (which simultaneously exists in a Palestinian sound installation) features pensive piano alongside Lancaster’s spoken recollection of attending a protest for Palestinian liberation with their parents. It’s partly in hearing both their voices so close together that we consider the ways this project takes pleasure and finds tenderness in the ephemeral and distances both physical & temporal. The second half of the record leans into the electronic with BAKUDI SCREAM’s glitchy lumbering and warp-speed travel towards grasping for the self; choppy oscillating of “Round Trips”; and vaporwave-influenced “wind_down_2.” Six tracks are accompanied by videos by Amanda Berlind, Tanea Hynes, Jasiel Lampkin, Yaz Lancaster, Theo Woodward, and Dan Tapper. The intro & interludes, “Y”, “X” and “XY” feature Connie Li, Dorothy Carlos, Seb Zel, and Meara O’Reilly who contribute violin, electric cello, production, and voice respectively. The placement of these dreamy vignettes act as bookends and central sound-posts that group the tracks together. The ease with which Lancaster moves between playing violin, singing, and speaking only further lends to the expansiveness of the worlds created, the selves portrayed. It follows that Lancaster’s interest in and use of electronics and audio processing, a further expansion of the sounds available to them as a skilled multi-instrumentalist, accompanies a curiosity about using technology to expand their bodily capabilities relating to gender & being. Yaz is a Black transdisciplinary artist who works across the mediums of sound, written text, and visual art. Their practices center the inextricability of the personal and political with work which “reckons with specific influences ranging from politics of liberation and identity to natural phenomena and poetics.” – Connie Li

Tracklist:
1.01 - Yaz Lancaster - Y (2:23)
1.02 - Yaz Lancaster - Lavender Tooth (4:32)
1.03 - Yaz Lancaster - of neither water nor land (3:20)
1.04 - Yaz Lancaster - Monroe Park (3:15)
1.05 - Yaz Lancaster - X (1:55)
1.06 - Yaz Lancaster - come as you are (5:18)
1.07 - Yaz Lancaster - GHOST IN THE MACHINE (4:42)
1.08 - Yaz Lancaster - Round Trips (6:00)
1.09 - Yaz Lancaster - wind_down_2 (5:18)
1.10 - Yaz Lancaster - XY (3:19)

Year 2023 | Jazz | Electronic | Ambient

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