Tromsø World 2024: YĪN YĪN (NL)

Tromsø World 2024: YĪN YĪN (NL)

Blårock Cafe

Doors: 20:00

Show: 21:00

Global psych rockers from unknown sonic territories

We are extremely delighted that we can bring back this amazing band to Tromsø after cancelling their show at last years festival. This year, even fresher with the new album Mount Matsu that came out earlier this year. Deeply informed by both the imaginative sound waves of the cosmos as well as the earthly musical culture of Japan, Mount Matsu is the reflection of a chaotic environment of influences slowly coming into focus. Infectious, strangely harmonious and highly energetic, the record is also the first by the band that came into being as the result of a truly democratic process among four befriended musicians. Mount Matsu is bound to do well in end of year lists for anyone into warm andtapeysounding psychedelic disco, fat global funk, electronics and tribal experiments

Hailing from Holland’s southernmost city of Maastricht,YīnYīnentered the scene back in 2019 with the Thaipsychrockinfluenced album The Rabbit that Hunts Tigers, which was followed up in 2022 with the more spiritual and cosmic sounding The Age of Aquarius. 

Sticking to pentatonic scales, the band’s largely instrumental sound - created with a unique set of instruments including vintage synthesizers and a traditional Chinese string instrument, the guzheng - features big jumps between notes with melodies that are easy to love as they draw the listener into unfamiliar territories.