#y0t0

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Track from Hessien's forthcoming "Your Empire, In Decline" cd on The Long Story Recording Company. Release date January 15, 2015 in an edition of 100 4 panel digipaks. Music by Tim Martin (Maps and Diagrams, Atlantis, Black Elk) and Charles Sage (y0t0, Rothko Chapel). Mastered by Mark Kuykendall (Unknown Tone) Layout by Phil Gardelis (Zenjungle)

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Track from Hessien's forthcoming "Your Empire, In Decline" cd on The Long Story Recording Company. Release date January 15, 2015 in an edition of 100 4 panel digipaks. Music by Tim Martin (Maps and Diagrams, Atlantis, Black Elk) and Charles Sage (y0t0, Rothko Chapel). Mastered by Mark Kuykendall (Unknown Tone) Layout by Phil Gardelis (Zenjungle)

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The Rothko Chapel - The Carrefour Plane

WEBSITE: therothkochapel.tumblr.com

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Y0t0 - Deckard

y0t0, or Year Of The Ox, is Charles Sage (Hessien, The Rothko Chapel) from New South Wales, Australia. Inspired by Blade Runner’s Voight-Kampf and the Carrousel of Logan’s Run, ‘Nijisousaku’ is eight scenes of hazy beats, freckled synth washes, cosmic drone and delayed guitar static assembled into a rough cut, featuring script revisions by Cex and Catlips; the soundtrack to a NASA transmission’s stumbling journey through the immensity of space.

“nijisousaku” LP (BLWBCK - 25 Feb 2013)

https://y0t0.bandcamp.com/album/nijisousaku

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The Rothko Chapel is an ongoing collaborative guitar noise project helmed by Pete Dowd (Singlecoil) and Charles Sage (Hessien, y0t0), incorporating multiple participants. It is open source, loud and without boundary. First track "The Carrafour Plane" appears on Tessellate Records compilation 'Earthtones', with an album to follow late 2013/early 2014. WEBSITE: therothkochapel.tumblr.com TESSELLATE PRESS RELEASE The second release on Tessellate is our first attempt at a compilation album and an ambitious one at that, clocking in at 2 hours long. Earthtones spans the internet-based contemporary ambient music scene, with a concept that helps us concentrate more on the geography that lies between each artist. In making worldwide communication easier, the internet has made it easy to forget the sheer size of our planet. Not only has each artist supplied an unreleased track for Earthtones; they have also provided an image of their local surroundings to accompany it to help further drive home the theme. Some are of local landscapes, others are personal places of interest to the respective artist. When you download the album, these images will show with the tracks when you listen to them on your laptop or mp3 player and as the tracks change, you’ll transport across the globe and back again, acting as a sort of postcard from the artist to you, the listener.

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y0t0 – nijisousaku

y0t0, or Year Of The Ox, is Charles Sage (Hessien, The Rothko Chapel) from New South Wales, Australia. Inspired by Blade Runner’s Voight-Kampf and the Carrousel of Logan’s Run, ‘Nijisousaku’ is eight scenes of hazy beats, freckled synth washes, cosmic drone and delayed guitar static assembled into a rough cut, featuring script revisions by Cex and Catlips; the soundtrack to a NASA transmission’s stumbling journey through the immensity of space. (+)

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y0t0 - nijisousaku

Straight from New South Wales comes Charles Sage with his impressionistic y0t0 outfit. y0t0 follows the same hazy, woozy, synth-based path as 1991, except here more focus is put into dense, cosmic atmospherics, with space-related monologues weaved in between pulsing, ambiental soundscapes of analog synthesizer and guitars. Inspired by Blade Runner and Logan's Run, y0t0 explores the thin border between human and machine and the ability to perceive emotions while surrounded by technology. Also, I can't staring at that cover. Powerful!

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y0t0 - Nijisousaku

There really is little to fault about this album. Every single subtle underlying rhythm, the interweaving of sonic textures, the intelligent rises and falls of volume, they all cohere perfectly to create y0t0’s mesmeric world. The album is calm and warming and yet driven by the isolationist coldness that made Eno’s seminal Ambient series so legendary. On Blue Mountains (Cex) the Eno comparison is particularly true as, with ghostly screeches fading in and out of heavenly stringed drones, a spacey yet spellbinding trance ensues. And throughout the LP the intelligent crafting of the always melodic drones summons up that Stars of the Lid harmoniousness, reverbed resonances always so captivating. This is certainly the case on closing two tracks Carousell II and the stunning Armstrong. On Carousell II a Steve Reich evoking tremolo guitar gorgeously interweaves with pretty synth whirls and underlying glitched rhythms while on Armstrong a most perfectly infectious guitar chord progression, that could go on for ever, is harmonized by foreceful yet warming drones.

The album is not just a chill out drone fest though. By tapping into other influences such as post-rock and even at one point techno, Nijisousaku possesses a dynamism that makes the album truly memorable. Vocal samples seemingly of an astronaut communicating with Earth enforce a cinematic feel that gives the album an underlying narrative (watch the Vimeo video for Armstrong and the NASA imagery used in the video, in combination with the music, is really very entrancing). By doing this the man behind y0t0, Charles Sage, continues to exhibit the influence of God Speed! You Black Emperor present throughout his blossoming catalogue and this is most clearly seen on second track As A Window Would Be, From A Fire (even the track title sounds like God Speed). But it is on centerpiece track, Sunn Over Blue Mountain (Catlips), where a techno riff gets subsumed by a haze of distortion and feedback that the album is really elevated into what will surely be one of the finest LPs of 2013. The techno riff combining with dancey rhythms and funky deep bass gives the album an edge that prevents it from being a mere Eno/Stars of the Lid/Aphex Twin replica - it helps to define Nijisousaku as being completely distinct in its own wonderful space. 

As Nijisousaku closes on the beautiful Armstrong, you can’t help but wish that it could somehow go on, that it didn’t have to end. Nijisousaku is a wonderful place to be - the point of any ambient album - and one can only hope that it is a place that many people will go to happily, letting Sage as y0t0 truly flourish as one of the finest producers around.  

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Written for www.fluid-radio.co.uk