YAI is the duo of David Lackner and John Thayer. Fourth world dream motifs become immersive sonic universes on Sky Time. Surrealist jazz speculation melts into electronic sound worlds, building ephemeral shrines to the sun and portraits of the ether. This music is lush and expansive, finding inventive ways to wrap itself around us while making us feel weightless, infinite. Lackner and Thayer spread joyous whimsy across the twelve tracks of Sky Time, painting a bright, hypnotic marker that we can’t help but reach toward.
This mix, aptly titled Elders Become Ancestors, rides an adjacent wave. Sky Time is out now on AKP Recordings.
Tracklist:
Alice Coltrane – Hari Narayan
Ron Thomas & John Swana – Serenity
Ryuichi Sakamoto – A Rain Song
Jon Hassell – Air
Cameroon: Baka Pygmy Music-The Humming of the Bees
YAI – Silver Chord
Brian Eno – Compact Forest Proposal, Condition 3-01
Pharaoh Sanders – Memories of Edith Johnson
Pandit Pran Nath – Raaga Asavari
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