REFLECT by yellow6

Reflect
whenever you reach a milestone, it’s natural to reflect. Reflect on the past, your achievements, the possible futures…
in 1998 the first Yellow6 record was released. two sides of a 7” single totalling about 9 minutes of music.
20 years on, comes REFLECT - a 5CD set. not the retrospective, best of or greatest hits (?!?) you would expect to mark this, but 5 CDs of new music.

The set consists of 3 CDs entitled ‘Looking Glass’. These show the development of a piece of music from it’s initial starting point, through many interpretations. Themes appear, disappear and reappear. The CDs are grouped into stylistically similar collections, not entirely chronological. These discs are not numbered so as to not suggest a listening order. whilst some follow chronology, others break with this. The discs are sub-titled Red, Green, Blue. Listen to you favourite colour first.

The other 2 discs are entitled Drone1 (Black) and Drone2 (White). After having my music referred to as ‘drone’ for a long time, but never feeling it really fitted the description, i thought i’d try to make a drone album. Along the way i asked a few friends to contribute (being people i mostly hadn’t worked with before). The drones were in the key of A. some contributions were used as the basis on which i added my drones, others contributions were added existing recordings i had made. this turned into one CD of collaborations (AMP, Brian John Mitchell, Yumah, Grey Frequency, The Corrupting Sea, Dual, Garwin and Beth Lily Georgiou) and a further CD of solo drones. The latter has been mixed into a single continuous 70 minute piece from the 7 individual tracks.

The discs each come in hand lino cut printed sleeves by Mark Prestage (who also printed recent merry6mas sleeves), in a sticker card box. Also available are Yellow6 t-shirts and tote bags.

There will be three options available on Bandcamp for pre-order: Box set only, Box set + t-shirt, Box set + t-shirt and tote bag. Prices will include shipping for UK but additional charge for overseas.

As the pre-order is partly to determine the numbers and sizes of t-shirts, please include this in the notes. I expect orders to ship end of October.

please mail with any questions….

Yellow6 is the solo project of British guitarist Jon Attwood. Yellow6 has at times been described as post-rock, minimalist, electronica, ambient… the reality is that Yellow6 has some similarity with each of those genres but is not so easily definable, using aspects of drone, repetition, melody, harmony, noise and silence to create absorbing soundscapes to drift off into

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