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Dreams
Dreams started out as a set of 'musical portraits'
of various well-known artists. 'Neuronium' is fairly
obvious, 'Daliesque' is a portrait of Edgar Froese
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1.
Neuronium
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28:24
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2.
Daliesque Cloud Formation
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9:36
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Encore |
8:40 |
4.
(Crossing the) Rubycon |
12:48 |
5. The Dream
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6:24
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Neuronium
(dance mix) bonus track
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6:20
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Lord of Light
Inspired by the books ‘Lord of Light’ by Roger Zelazny,
and ‘Siddharta’ by Hermann Hesse
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Vision
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8:08
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Siddharta
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17:20 |
3.
Lord of Light |
42:12 |
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Daliesque Cloud Formation
Daliesque Cloud Formation started out as a track
on the ‘Dreams’ album but has since gained a life
of its own. Here are various versions collected
together, mostly unavailable anywhere else
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1.
Daliesque Cloud Formation (single edit)
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3:40 |
2.
Dalekesk (John Sherwood)
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4:33 |
3.
Daliesque Whales
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8:36
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Daliesque Cloud Formation (album version)
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9:36 |
5.
Daliesque Variation
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8:23 |
6.
Daliesque Kommandoh |
6:21 |
7.
Daliesque Cloud Formation |
12:43 |
(live at AL2K3
Notting Hill)
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8.
Daliesque Steel Formation |
16:18 |
(live at Awakenings 9 Dec 2006) |
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Live in Lutton
Live in Lutton sees Yorky in the Dog Kennel studio
in Lutton.
Playing a selection of his own favourites from the studio albums
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1.
Morcheeba
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8:08
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Grapes in Capes |
5:21 |
3.
Aliens in Lhasa
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8:51 |
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Chillout |
6:36 |
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Siddharta |
14:38 |
6.
The
Journey
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13:53
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7.
The Run |
6:15 |
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Sundances EP
Four storming tracks to fill your dancefloor. Really.
A bit more upbeat than the ‘traditional’ Yorky.
A lot more, actually.
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1.
Dance in the Sun
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4:11
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2.
Temple of the Sun |
2:56 |
3.
Touch the Sun |
4:22 |
4.
Sun Dance in Blue |
5:27 |
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Chillout
Originally released in 2001 was the first release
by Yorky.
Only available online at the time, it is now reissued with
revised artwork and tracks
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Grapes in Capes
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3:46
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2.
Morcheeba
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5:22 |
3.
Aliens in Lhasa |
8:38 |
4.
Cold Fusion Run |
6:26 |
5.
The Run
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3:36
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6.
Running in Slo-Mo
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5:42 |
7.
The Journey |
13:14 |
8.
Chillout |
5:24 |
9.
Solitude |
8:40 |
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Planets
The trip is space, the power is dance, the feeling
is out
there, the music is a voyage through the soul of the planets
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Mars
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7:02
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2.
Venus
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6:15 |
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Neptune |
9:12 |
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Uranus |
10:31 |
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Saturn
(the planet)
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8:05
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Saturn (the rings)
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10:56 |
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Jupiter |
9:58 |
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Desert Dream Echoes
Recorded live in Utrecht at the
legendary Dark-Ambient-Net
festival, plus some studio material making a full length album
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1.
Canyon Drive
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17:08
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2.
Desert Dream
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14:47 |
3.
Live at Ekko (Utrecht) |
33:05 |
containing Sphere, Weather, |
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Daliesque Cloud
Formation,
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Telephone, Dream Sequence,
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Railway, Aircraft, Neuronium |
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REVIEWS
Lord of Light
The only mistake I made was listening to track 3
(Lord of Light) in my car on the way home.
I had listened to track 1 and 2 on the way to work,
the player in my tiny rattle-trap car turned full-blast.
Track 1, Visions, is a stunning piece that has both
art and precision, like Pachebel, and emotional
textures that shimmer as the object being examined
unfolds itself.
Track 2, Siddartha, a piece that is like a journey,
moves through countryside and urban scapes,
through light and shadow twining both into a
silver thread.
By the time I reached work (I drive about 45 minutes
over rolling grasslands, ranchlands, past mountains
and outcroppings of the high desert of Southern
Arizona), I was convinced that this was Yorky's finest
album yet. Musically complex, yet subtle, it represented
a creative maturity that really was stunning.
When I left to ride through the red rock panorama
in the setting sun, track 3 began to play.
By the time I reached the first summit, the world
had dissolved, my chakras were opening and I was
completely swept up.
At 42 minutes or so, this piece is a haunting
tour-de-force that totally envelops you.
The first third of the track (about 12 minutes
or so) is a rising, undulating and quickening
of something coming to life. Imagine Wagners
brilliant but very short musical opening to
Das Rheingold expanded to nearly 15 minutes
and you'll have some idea of what this first
section of the track is like.
The middle third, like Siddartha, feels like a
journey, but the emotional texture is very different,
a journey across time, it unfolds in complicated
cycles, like a journey through time and evolution.
The third and final part is like a joy-filled passing,
into a beyond somewhere. I am not a musician,
I cannot review music by talking about the technical
qualities and details that define the music. I can only
describe in oblique metaphor what the music does
to me, what it makes me feel, what it causes me to
think about.
This album is utterly fantastic, exuding a spirit and
an energy that seems so much more needed these
days than when it was conceived.
This unforgetable set of themes left me, honestly,
speechless at the end of the trip. When I walked into
the house, still speechless, my wife looked me over
trying to figure out why I was so quiet. I handed her
the CD. My wife listens to little ambient or electronica,
but she fell in love with the CD... and knew why I was
so quiet.
This is stunning Electronica, I highly recommend it.
John Warner
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