MP3: Yamon Yamon - Days like television
Guest post today from Mr. Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson with a track from Yamon Yamon:
Music has always had a relationship with the changing seasons, soundtracks that follow nature's ambling course through the year. Summer necessitates music with an overabundance of energy. Autumn and winter often find us lost in slower, darker songs as the year comes to its close and we ponder our relationship with the passing time. Spring is a period rebirth, thawing, and new life, and we chose our music accordingly.
Often this relationship with seasons requires the creation of mixtapes drawing from a number of sources, removing songs with a certain feeling from their usual context and combining them with similar tracks. Or sometimes we intensely listen to records that seems to embody the time of year, bands with a distinct sound – upbeat or down-tempo, sunny or glacial, and so on.
Yamon Yamon's EP "Finales" is an exercise in emotional malleability, ever present and vibrant no matter what the season, the mood, or weather. The layers of music present a different face, an alternate tapestry of meaning as our ears listen for those emotions that seem so necessary at the time. Periods of darkness expose the vast, atmospheric guitars and a vulnerability in Jon's voice. The sunlight streaming through our windows brings a mature form of happiness to the forefront, explored in "Days like television"; that emotion which is well aware of life's ups and downs, and remains constant and buoyant when we are drowning in one of life's many challenges, and never lets us slip too far under the water.
Yamon Yamon - Days like television