Memotone – How Was Your Life?
Bristol multi-instrumentalist, producer and nature freak Will Yates aka memotone arrives on the always excellent NYC-based label Impatience with a collection of singular balearic ambient, left-field grooves, and “baroque druid folk.” Interestingly, the music on HWYL? was largely inspired by the purchase of the Roland GR-33 guitar synthesizer, an antiquated Y2K era multi-effects processor that allowed Yates to mimic fretless bass, a vast array of percussion, Jon Hassell style woodwinds, and craft uniquely unusual electronic atmospheres. “The resulting concoction sounds familiar yet subtly, unshakeably otherworldly.”
Recommended – Full Listen
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A1 Paradise Drips
A2 Open World
A3 Forest Zone
A4 Glow In The Dark
B1 Carved By The Moon
B2 Canteen Sandwich
B3 Lonehead
B4 Walking Backwards
Artwork – Hugo Bernier
Mastered By – C.Z. Wang
Written By, Producer, Performer – William Yates