Cycles & Decay, by YlangYlang

Cycles & Decay

by YlangYlang

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1.	Cedar St. 12:22 video	buy track
2.	Penumbra 06:46	buy track
3.	Waning Now 06:46	buy track
4.	Green, Blue 09:53	buy track

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YlangYlang is the solo project of Catherine Debard - a moniker that has been in development since 2012, as part of her deep-rooted involvement & strong-felt presence in the Montréal music scene. Over a decade of releases & performances has shaped her intimate music into a singular form of expression, crafting introspective songs & experimental soundscapes that range in various styles & influences, from ambient/drone to 90s pop/rock music, field-recordings, noise, improvisation, processed treatments, poetry & spoken-word, retro aesthetics, healing practices...

Her musical output extends far and wide over multiple releases by various international labels - such as Crash Symbols (USA), Phinery (DK), Fluere Tapes (SE) and ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ (RU); and her performances & collaborative experiments have made her perform & tour extensively through Canada and beyond, featuring in music festivals such as Suoni Per Il Popolo, Mutek Montréal, Electric Eclectics, Strangewaves, Tone Deaf, and a participant in Red Bull Music Academy residency at Calgary's National Music Center, and in a workshop hosted by Suzanne Ciani.

'Cycles & Decay' follows her accomplished 2020 release 'Interplay' on Crash Symbols & NO EXIST; an album that was characterized by orchestration & recording sessions from guest musicians/friends & resulting in a more defining 'jazz' sound and amplified symbiotic warmth. Following a much-needed 'long period of rest' after life events and personal displacement, the creation of Cycles & Decay spans between 2019 & 2021, including a session in Fall 2019 with returning collaborators - Connor Bennett & Evelyn Charlotte Joe.

In her own words, Cycles & Decay "is a reflection about the various phases of death & rebirth I experienced in my life, and observed within nature and loosely throughout History. During that period in time, I felt the need to slow down and linger within the shadowy uncomfortable spaces inside the waning, the decaying, the shedding, the letting-go. Then, later, I started dreaming of decomposed sound matter, of rotten music, compost music, of a music that I would lose control of, that would have its own sets of parameters and rules, all organic, non rational, non linear. These songs are an attempt to play with these ideas."

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released May 18, 2021

Composed & Produced by Catherine Debard

Recorded between 'my apartment in Montréal'
& Fort Rose, Hamilton in 2019

Catherine Debard: Piano, Synthesizers, Field Recordings, Noises & Textures, Vocals

Connor Bennett: Saxophone & Effects on Track 2 & 4

Evelyn Charlotte Joe: Acoustic Guitar & Effects on Track 2
Upright Bass & Toy Piano on Track 4

Video for Cedar St. by Charline Daily

Mastered by Amar Lal
Artwork by Catherine Debard
Tape Layout by Jean Néant

EDA15 • Everyday Ago 2021

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YlangYlang Montreal, Québec

introversion, intuition, feeling, perception

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discography

Never by daylight (Remixes)

Oct 2023
Only by moonlight

Mar 2023
Interplay

Jan 2020
A Certain Distance

Dec 2017
Cycles & Decay

May 2021
More Than This

Sep 2020
Soft Focus

Mar 2020
Long Winter

Dec 2017
Hejira

Sep 2017
Life Without Structure

Oct 2016
The Craft of Coupling

May 2016
Dialectics

Apr 2016
No Exist (Feel Special)

Sep 2015
Mutualism

Apr 2015
Am I Being Overdramatic?

Oct 2014
Blossom

Jan 2014
Neopaganism for teenage wanderers

Feb 2013
full moon solo piano

Jul 2015
You might want to burn some sage

Jun 2015
Human Experience EP

May 2015
Queen of wands

Feb 2015
Dream Warrior (Game OST)

Jun 2014
Tender Freaky Sexy Moments

Feb 2014
Atavistic Re-Education

Jan 2014
Echo Systems

Dec 2013
Cottonhead see-er

Nov 2013
Last Night, Utopian Rêveries Overpowered Me

May 2013
Coastal Heaven

Nov 2012
Confusion Canyon

Sep 2012
Tune your eyes to kaleidoscopic vision

May 2012
Stars make me cry

Jul 2012

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