***Psychic Sounds welcomes the premiere publication of Chilean based musician, and animator Anibal Bley’s debut as Lavina Yelb. Originally released as a digital download in 2010, Apapneas Hypmne Somome has finally found its way to physical media to bump & bounce in decks directly to your dome. ”Lavina Yelb’s world is inhabited by 8-bit characters, self-flapping blankets that shape-shift into and out of a plethora of cartoon morphologies and stroboscopic blocks and lines of color. Cheap keyboards and sounds from everyday life are pushed in creative loops and turns, into songs that are daring, bizarre, cute, sometimes harsh, mostly accessible and above all, playful,” originally observed by fellow regional sound explorers, Nonlocal Society. Hallucinatory animations, like the recent ‘Royal Flush’ contribution (w/ audio by Charmaine Lee & Ikue Mori: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkt3FLJwDc), illuminate the visual extension that often accompany Lavina Yelb’s music which both expand & complement the sonic universe created in the form of gifs, music videos, digital illustrations, album covers and materially: paintings and installations. 'All over his oeuvre deconstructive strategies are applied, accidents & deformations are accentuated and used to arrive at unexpected results. The unfinished is made to serve as an opening for the imagining; ambiguities are exalted and words are shuffled out of their meanings,' Nonlocal further notes. Bley’s long running parallel independent universe as Lavina Yelb sprawls through micro to macro cross sections further expanding the wavy imaginary sphere of perplexing, tensible hybrid genre experiments, both curiously dystopic & utopic, as explored through these twelve tracks...
MC $11.00
10/25/2024