Ylium Announce Thier First Album: Empire Of Light

Top Quote An Eight-tracks Lp which includes influences from experimental rock, drum machines and avant-garde music. Your Life In Unique Meaning is the first single by the venetian duo. End Quote
  • (1888PressRelease) May 21, 2014 - Empire Of Light is the debut album by Ylium, a duo from Venice, Italy and trained by Alessandro Cavazzana (guitars, keyboards, drum machines, computer programming ) and Marco Rodella (drums, percussion), accompanied by other musicians during live performances.

    Eager to broaden their musical horizons by experimenting beyond simple electrical instruments and by virtue of a growing interest on the part of Alessandro Cavazzana in IDM, the band begins to program computers and set up drum machines to incorporate these devices during the sessions in the rehearsal room. Guitars, bass and drums are not absolutely set aside, since the ultimate goal is always to give birth to a perfect match between what you plan and what you play.

    The result of all this is "Empire of Light": an album that mixes experimental rock, electronica and some avant-garde. Although the background music of reference is essentially British and German contemporary, there are elements of new wave , 70's krautrock, Miles Davis and some minimalist composers of our time, such as Steve Reich. The processing of the disc began in the summer of 2012, the period in which they recorded and mixed the first three tracks, which initially were part of a self-produced and and self-distributed EP, which was released in February of 2013.

    They then composed a dozen songs, with five of these, along with three Ep tracks, included in the album Empire Of Light, which was completed in February 2014. Empire of Light was recorded mainly in Treviso.

    "Your Life In Unique Meaning" (the title is the dissolution of Acronym YLIUM) is the first single from the Venetian duo: " It stems from an attempt to re-arrange an old piece of the previous group", explains Alessandro Cavazzana "trying to propose it as a kind of counterpoint to instrumental guitar, drum machines and wind instruments, and then using it for personal projects; but when Marco and Giulio heard it, they got very intrigued and decided to work on it all together. It took several months to be finalized, but after a work of almost a year, in May, 2013, Unique Meaning in Your Life was ready ."

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