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Ylia Ame Agaru

Balmat | Item No: 1021340
Vinyl LP | 2023 / UK – Original | New
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Ylia—aka Susana Hernández—had a remarkably productive 2020. In addition to releasing her debut album, Dulce Rendición, on Barcelona’s Paralaxe Editions, she penned compilation tracks for Lapsus Records, Hivern Discs, and Super Utu/Stars on Earth.

But professional success can be deceiving: The following year was, personally speaking, terrible. Her grandfather died. Her father died. Her cat died. And she ended a relationship. “That’s a lot of things all at once, no?” she says.

Her second album, Ame Agaru, is not necessarily a record of that year, but it is, she says, a response to those life events—a record of grief.

The new album is clearly a continuation of the ambient investigations of Ylia’s debut, but it differs in key ways. Where Dulce Rendición was exploratory and faintly cosmic, Ame Agaru—a Japanese phrase meaning, roughly, “the rain lifts”— captures a melancholy sense of stillness. And where her debut was largely electronic, on the new album, Ylia has folded in a number of acoustic elements, even when they are not recognizable as such. Her partner, Alejandro Lévar, lends fingerpicked acoustic guitar to the glowing dronescapes of “Todos los Cuerpos”; multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Tete Leal adds flutes, clarinet, and soprano saxophone to “Ame Agari”—or “after the rain”—which opens the album with a moment of contemplative calm, the kind that follows an extended deluge.

One track, the dub techno-influenced “Flowers in June,” grew out of Ylia’s live sets, but the rest are the fruit of improvisational sessions at home in Málaga, five minutes from the beach—jamming and then refining, searching for the ideal expression of a feeling as it was first captured. Searching for the spontaneity behind the stillness. In places, Ylia even incorporates piano, an instrument she has played since she was 10, yet has never included on one of her recordings before. For the most part on Ame Agaru, she seeks ways to fuse piano with synthesizers and electronic processes. But on the closing track, “El Único Adiós Posible,” she leaves us alone with the instrument in all its stark, unadorned beauty. It is a profoundly moving conclusion to an album defined by its economy of means and purity of expression: a cycle
Item Details
Item No: 1021340
Artist: Ylia
Title: Ame Agaru
Label: Balmat
Catalog No: BALMAT06
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: UK – Original
Release Date: 2023
Genre: Electronic & Dance
Style: Cosmic | Balearic, Downbeat | Electronica | Leftfield
Available since: 2023-07-12
Condition: New
Price: 25,99 €
Weight: 250g (plus 250g Packaging)
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Tracklist
A1 Ame Agari
A2 Todos Los Cuerpos
A3 Nuances Of Care
A4 Flowers In June
A5 Tus Manos Cobijo
A6 Luz De Camino
A7 Drifting Into The Good Night
A8 El Unico Adios Posible
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