In The Darkness You Were Smiling, by Yellow6 and Lux Symmetry

In The Darkness You Were Smiling

by Yellow6 and Lux Symmetry

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Michael J Bates Generic but intoxicatingly beautiful.
Experimental yet accessable.
Take it into your bosom, nourish it, make it yours. Favorite track: Another Day.

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1.	We Changed Forever 12:16 video		buy track
2.	When The Novelty Has Gone 10:38		buy track
3.	Another Day 13:17		buy track
4.	Forgotten Thoughts 07:33	lyrics	buy track
And when I saw you Your lies were poetry And I’m tired It’s 3AM and you’re so high And we’d forgotten all the trauma It was as if it had wiped away In the darkness You were smiling And I knew what you were going to do What it would mean for all of us How it took you away from here And I wanted it I wanted that look of freedom on my face But I’m still here Crying in the darkness It’s 3AM And I’m all alone And I’m all alone
5.	Forgotten Thoughts (Instrumental - Digital Bonus) 07:33	info

about

Guitarist Jon Attwood has been making music under the Yellow6 name for around 25 years. In this time he has released over 60 full length albums and many singles, compilation appearances, remixes and collaborations. Gaining early exposure with airplay by the late John Peel, Yellow6 says he isn’t easily pigeonholed, using aspects of drone, minimalism, post-rock, post-punk, his loop based guitar music isn’t easily categorised. Despite the melancholy nature of his music, he’s quite a content person.
Previous collaborators have included thisquietarmy, Dirk Serries, David Newlyn and Wodwo. This latest release, sees Y6 team up with Lux Symmetry.

Lux Symmetry is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist from the UK. Using a combination of electronics with live instruments and vocals, she aims to create genre-defying landscapes and pulsing tracks that would be equally at home in the early hours of a darkened night club as they would in a concert hall. Lux retains an inescapable melancholy throughout her works, and describes her compositional style as “maximal minimalist”.

Born in the UK, with Cypriot heritage, Lux studied Violin, Saxophone and Keyboards from childhood before earning a degree in Music Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music in London. She currently resides in Maastricht.
Inspired at a young age by the late composer John Cage, she is fascinated by noise in general, rather than just those ordered into structure. Her musical influences are a varied spectrum of contemporary-classical, post-rock, industrial metal, future garage, and techno.

Y6 and Lux have known each other for a long time, having played together in a cover band. Lux has previously contributed violin to a track on the Yellow6 REFLECT set.

This collaboration came together during the COVID lockdowns, with Lux trapped inside in her Belgium apartment and needing something to work on musically, and Y6 being hyper productive in his own isolation. Not knowing what to expect, he provided some works in progress, which Lux then turned into the varied compositions here. Expecting only some strings to be added to the original Yellow6 guitar tracks, it was a wonderful surprise as Lux created massive layers of synths, keyboards and beats. This possibly is the closest we will ever get to Jon’s original stated aim of Yellow6 being “like Bark Psychosis you can dance to”. It takes a special kind of person to dance to Yellow6. Now everyone can try.

credits

released September 16, 2022

Jon Attwood (Yellow6) : Guitars, Bass

Beth Georgiou (Lux Symmetry) : Keyboards, Synths, Strings, Percussion, Vox, Production

Jon thanks Cat, Sky, Jack, Jools, Ray and Beth

Beth thanks Mooncake, Aatu "Tilasak" Raty, Jack and Jon

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Yellow6 is the solo project of British guitarist Jon Attwood. Yellow6 has at times been described as post-rock, minimalist, electronica, ambient… the reality is that Yellow6 has some similarity with each of those genres but is not so easily definable, using aspects of drone, repetition, melody, harmony, noise and silence to create absorbing soundscapes to drift off into ... more

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