Crimson Poem 深紅之詩

by Yikii

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yv55ii scary and creepy, i got chills i love it Favorite track: Two Moons 戼.

malaface haunting, creepy, ethereal, childlike nursery rhymes, and intense soundscapes. Favorite track: Scavenger's Daughter 清道夫之女.

mipsen Haunting... Have to check out more of the albums. What a find... Favorite track: Liminal Space 虛與實.

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1.	-47 °C 02:43	buy track
2.	Disillusionment 破滅 03:40	buy track
3.	Phantasmagoria! 千燈幻景 04:35	buy track
4.	Afterimage In Ruin 廢墟残像 03:12 video	buy track
5.	Five Layers of Crimson Snow 五重絳雪 04:10	buy track
6.	Doll's Synaesthesia 人偶的通感 03:30	buy track
7.	Noctambulist 夢行者 03:42 video	buy track
8.	Heart Halo 心之光晕 06:07	buy track
9.	Liminal Space 虛與實 04:00	buy track
10.	Scavenger's Daughter 清道夫之女 03:16	buy track
11.	Glass Drumsticks 玻璃鼓槌 03:40	buy track
12.	Two Moons 戼 03:43	buy track

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Yikii’s Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 exists at the foggy threshold where dreams become nightmares. The Changchun-based Chinese producer has released over 20 albums and mini-albums in her relatively short career, but none of them resonate with the same trembling intensity as this latest LP. “It’s the closest to the colour and atmosphere of the new world I imagined, compared to the previous albums,” says Yikii about the relative completeness of what could be described as her first proper full-length. It takes its cue from a particular interest in linear time, where Yikii asks, "if we can meet with the wonders of this world, will there be a new beginning in the next, or will it all fall apart?"

Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 consistently plays with this tension. There’s the rising dread of a hollow hand drum and other traditional instruments knocking up against each other, before they swell into waves of rising choral patches and layered, off-tune chanting on “Five Layers Of Crimson Snow 五重絳雪”. Then there’s the lonely piano and flute that weaves through its own resonance before exploding into noise and dissonance on “Phantasmagoria! 千燈幻景”. These, along with the drunken waltz to close “Liminal Space 虛與實”, echo the eerie fade of a psychological horror.

Inspired by ambient, gabber and post-club; contemporary composition, avant-pop and nursery rhymes, Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 is Yikii’s most complete manifestation of her ongoing creative focus on “sadness and despair in hazy beauty". It’s the surreal sound of a kind of trance-like, in-between state, a hypnagogia that’s not to be confused with the washy psychedelia of ‘hypnagogic pop’. The music here is instead detailed and intentional, with a dark-light chiaroscuro created by the shadows of a haunted gothic. “They are always one step ahead of others in digging deeper into the spiritual realm,” Yikii explains, citing dark fantasy games like Fatal Frame, Fran Bow, and Little Misfortune as aesthetic inspirations.

Initially intended to be an album of mainly microtonal music and special tunings, Crimson Poem 深紅之詩 has become more of an exercise in world-building rather than straight up music making. There’s an anxious beauty here, where destructive noise meets delicate atmospheres that build and bloom. “I want to create my own world through music and drawings, which exists in a separate time and space, and if I leave, you can still feel my existence through them. From there you can experience a whole world that is alive.”

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released October 1, 2021

All music written, sung, composed, arranged, produced, mixed by Yikii
Mastered by Rashad Becker

Photography by Yikii, design by Niels Wehrspann

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Yikii

Yikii means 'survive'.
She is an artist who composes, arranges, produces, mixes, sings, writes lyrics, and designs album covers for all her music.
Yikii learned voice and piano as a child and later 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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