YETI RAIN - DISCARNATE

YETI RAIN - DISCARNATE

Disk 1 . . . . . . .40.55
1) The Veiled Daughters of Sleep
2) Book of Visions
3) Ebon Ebon Thalud
4) Sea of Endings
5) The Prophets' Needle
6) Darklight
7) Dreaming in the Teeth of Forever

Yeti Rain's official website at:
http://www.yetirain.com/

Line-up
William Kopecky: Fretless bass, wind drum, tanpura
Roger Ebner: wind synthetizer

format: Single CD • Unicorn Digital UNCR 5037
release date: January 2007

A review by guest critic Yves Dubé

You slowly make your way across the Arizona desert as the sun is sinking on the horizon. Heat waves warp your view of the distance. A rattlesnake slowly wanders across your path but you pay it no heed; your mind is focused elsewhere. The shaman has finally agreed to see you. You are one step closer to understanding the ways of his people. Their rich traditions, whose meanings had seemed so elusive, are within your grasp. The lapis lazuli sky starts turning shades of indigo, and then deep purple by the time you arrive at his home. You are greeted by 2 mangy mutts who guard the discarded appliances and old automobile relics which litter the shaman’s land. You make your way to the smoke house, the same one that has been used by countless generations to seek truths hidden from the all but the wisest of men. You are brought to the inner circle of his tribe; the elders are all facing a smoking heap of leaves and branches. You are the last to arrive. The ritual may now begin. The room starts filling up with smoke. At first, you feel like you will choke on the thickness of it, but the shaman’s chanting takes your mind elsewhere. You start feeling as if you are leaving your body, your soul is being lifted out of its mortal shell, and an insight and understanding of the underlying truth unifying all living things starts to become very clear to you…

Such is the imagery my mind has created in listening to Yeti Rain’s Discarnate; a very dense disc which oozes with dark and mesmerizing imagery. The musical outpouring has an ominous reticence which becomes extremely hypnotic. Made up of Roger Ebner: wind synthesizer, wind drum, and William Kopecky: fretless bass, wind drum; Discarnate is a dark work which was “spontaneously composed” to give it a very immediate feel. Sounding like a movie score, one listens to this disc with a sense of foreboding; a sense of expectancy. The 7 tracks which make up the disc all flow seamlessly into each other, creating a dark musical opus.

Some may feel that the music could be categorized as “New Age” however it would be safer to call it “New Dark Age” as there is nothing particularly light or ebullient here. The music evokes a journey to the center of one’s conscience, where one may easily encounter skeletons long ago buried. Fans of bands like Tangerine Dream will take to this immediately, as Edgar Froese and Co.’s 70s output may have been the main influence here. I really didn’t know what to make of this disc at first, but I find myself reaching for it more often than I usually would for an album of this genre.

Are you ready for the Yeti Rain?

My rating for Discarnate : 8.2/10(album reviewed by Yves Dubé © 2007. All Rights reserved)