The Linn Youki Project – #03 CD

The Linn Youki Project – #03 CD

Without a doubt, the greatest compensation of technologically generated music is the autonomy obtained by the musician working at home without depending on a recording studio, its schedules and its cost. That, and an almost sickly creative hyperactivity, are the main reasons why we already have in our hands The Linn Youki Project's third album, after the second installment (02) in 2005 and the first (#1) in 2004. three references, united in a continuous evolutionary line, show the good work of a band that with #3 reaches a maturity that, not because it is missed on its first two albums, is evident with the most elaborate and conscientious album that Marco Morgione , Xavi Caparrós and now Ramon Aragall, accompanied by distinguished collaborators from the Barcelona underground scene, have recorded to date. Because if technology, the compulsive use of samplers and programming is the seed of their compositions, it is in the organic aspect where the group demonstrates its extra mastery. Ramon's drums absorb Marco and Xavi's double set of basses towards his field, solidifying a rhythmic base that always gives prominence to the layers of sound generated with samplers, analog synthesizers (more present than ever), piccolo basses, electric clarinets, trumpets, vocoders, saxophones and trumpets and endless auditory resources. And, on this album and as a tool specially used for the occasion, the human voice as the nerve center of the discourse, although it is never sung except when it is the Copernicus Choir who expels the air and almost always treated synthetically. The band had never been so close to post-rock or free-jazz, or seventies score, thanks to a renewed jazz vision of the rhythmic base, combined with a masterful use of wind instruments. A greater roughness in the textures to the detriment of the naïve of his previous references, removing color from his cartoons to give them a charcoal texture, adding seriousness to a discreet and elegant surrealism and betting on the organic factor in front of the computer. And, in this new and more complex bet, successes come one after another, supported by the collaboration of such active members of the Barcelona underground as La Orquesta de la Muerte (with members of Nisei), Jens and Jaime from 12Twelve, Víctor Nubla, Xavi Tort and the specially invited Ainara LeGardon. It is difficult to speak of maturity in a group that has always been mature and has always walked one step ahead in the national post-rock scene, but, even so, The Linn Youki Project can boast of having culminated an impressive trilogy with a work absolutely adult made by lovers of the childish.