Yagya – Rigning

incredible piece of art.with the flow, of love and life.

It's really unique moody dubtechno piece of music. A masterpiece. Strongly recommended.

the newly designed cover art for the delsin reissue really, really grabs you! it's stunningly beautiful in it's simplicity. sike-

This is probably one of the best atmospheric dub techno albums ever made...Rigning Sjö is my favourite track.

I love the rain, and I love this album, which concept is rain. Indeed, it sounds like quiet city in rainy afternoon. Hazy swells and echoes with continuous distant beat. No hard edges or too strong expressions. Melodic touch subtle enough to retain that detached, floating feel through this mellow flow of sounds. I would consider this more ambient techno with minor dub nuance than dub techno. The choice of background music for relaxing.

5/5

Dub techno usually makes me puke. It's often boring and self-indulgent. But not this record. Rigning is essentially one long track split into movements - it's a set of variations of the same basic idea. Almost every song has a simple mid-tempo rhythm section that doesn't change; there are no fills, no snare rushes. On top of the rhythm there is a reverberating framework of a melody, and everything is covered in the white noise sound of rain (track one has cicadas, which sound a bit out of place).

The whole album is like that, except for track four - a surprisingly musical moody instrumental ballad, with traffic noise and a clock in addition to the rain. It's a great example of a simple concept executed really well. It could have been bland muzak, or tedious, but it's one of those records I can listen to endlessly on repeat. It's purpose-built as accompaniment for a long train journey in the rain.

Never get bored. I can listen to this over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again...............

Most mature and sophisticated dub techno album out there.

For his third album, RIGNING, Yagya starts with the simple nightscape of "Rigning Einn": frogs whistling to each other, which slowly fades as the melody ripples onto the surface, and into the "Rigning Tvö," which gets into silghtly darker territory, like a evening storm in a thick forest (this gloom will be reprised at the start of "Rigning Sex"). The beats don't come until "Rigning Þrjú," but what stands out the most is the increased use of background sounds, particularly rain sounds, though he branches out, like with the submerged crowd voices on "Rigning Fimm" and "Rigning Níu." A crisper drum grounds "Rigning Sjö," which is about as fast as this album will get, since it's much more interested in a meditation than movement, and sure enough, "Rigning Tíu" wraps things up on a pure ambient float. Just lovely.

I am stunned that after my long journey on every possible landscape or aspect of EDM I finally stumble upon the marvellous work of YAGYA! I discovered his first album just by accident and I was completely and utterly blown away. It was the sound I was looking for for a long time. Get all of his work, they all are brilliant! But somehow I must say that this piece for me is the best. It has absolutelly everything, deep structures, atmosphere, rhythm of life-everything!