Chorion, by Yikii

Chorion

by Yikii

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1.	Microtonal Raindrop 微音霖乱 04:15	buy track
2.	All the rain, All the Dying Dreams 所有的雨，所有濒死的梦 03:11	buy track
3.	Heavenly Hell 天狱 05:23	buy track
4.	Melinoë 墨利诺厄 05:20	buy track
5.	The Invisible Trepidation 无形的恐惧 04:32	buy track
6.	Mazarine 深蓝 03:37	buy track
7.	Reincarnation from Snow 雪中轮回 03:48	buy track
8.	Scorn蔑视 03:58	buy track
9.	Mongolian Worm 蒙古蠕虫 04:13	buy track
10.	Occult Sand 幽沙 04:00	buy track
11.	Dream Cassette 梦境录音带 03:04	buy track

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The eerie lullaby of Yikii’s vast creative universe continues with her latest LP, Chorion. Following the anxious beauty of 2021’s ambient, post-club, and avant-pop-inspired Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 album, the Changchun-based artist carries her expansive experiments in harmony and dissonance onto her timeless gothic electroacoustics that operate at the nexus of the past, the present, and the future. Here, avant-garde contemporary classical meets utilitarian videogame composition to create a wholly immersive sonic environment that’s as ravishing as it is terrifying.

Named after the life-giving embryonic membrane that eventually forms the placenta, Chorion takes its conceptual cue from science-fiction writer Andy Weir’s acclaimed short story, The Egg. In it, a god and a dead man on the threshold of reincarnation discuss the notion of a Universal One—the unity of everyone and all things. On Chorion, the idea of whether we are "every human being who ever lived" is presented less as a question and more an inarguable fact, in a soundscape built from a glut of musical material created and collected by Yikii between 2018 and 2021.

Haunting the album cover is a painting of a Rhaphidophoridae—the artist’s entomophobia (an extreme fear of insects) projected onto the spiny silhouette of this blind and unpredictable subterranean cricket, reminiscent of the parasitic arthropods of first-person shooter games like BioShock and Resident Evil. Trained pianist Yikii applies these solitary pursuits of the digital era to her experiments in microtonal music and special tunings, which delve into the dark recesses of the cumulative subconscious. From the queasy hallucinations of her “Dream Cassette” reworking to the acutely physical rhythms of “Melinoë” and “Mongolian Worm,” there’s a twisted interiority to Chorion, where a battery of sonic, conceptual, and emotional material implodes in a dazzling vortex of violent intensity.

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released January 5, 2024

Mastered by Rashad Becker
Artwork by Yikii
Design by Niels Wehrspann

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Yikii

The meaning of the name Yikii is 'survive'.
She composes, arranges, produces, mixes, sings, writes lyrics, and designs album covers for all her music.
Yikii learned voice and piano as a child. When she had her first computer, she taught herself to use Logic Pro for music production. Her creative inspiration stems from her dreams, traumatic experience, and a love for science fiction literature. ... more

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