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Performer: Kevin O'Neill
Title: Yggdrasil
Country: UK
Genre: Electronic
Style:Electro, Downtempo, Ambient
Released: 1991
Catalog number: dmc 22
Label: Direction Music
MP3 album szie: 1091 mb
FLAC album size: 1577 mb

Tracklist

A1 Ruth '66 2:45
A2 Yeti 7:16
Yggdrasil Parts 1-8 (22:52)
A3a At The Gates Of Asgard
A3b Where Gods Assemble
A3c Odin's Song
A3d Descent...
A3e ...Into The Underworld
A3f Inferno
A3g Xylem
A3h Ragnarok - The Final Conflict
B1 Taliesin 13:37
Live At Cardiff University June 1990
B2a Katharsis Part 2 3:57
B2b Cziltang Brone Part 2 6:14
B2c The Game (New Version) 14:11

Versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
AMCDR 263 DL Kevin O'Neill Yggdrasil ‎(7xFile, FLAC, Album) Auricle AMCDR 263 DL UK 2018
AMCDR 263 Kevin O'Neill Yggdrasil ‎(CDr, Album, Num, RE, RM) Auricle AMCDR 263 UK 2017
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KEVIN O'NEILL - YGGDRASIL (Direction Music DMC 22) MC 66m
Kevin O'Neill has consistently been one of the most fascinating and unique of indie synthesists. His instantly recognisable visionary style, on the edge of both melodic and cosmic fields, blending a refined concoction of the accessible and the strange, has won him an ardent following. Kevin has never attempted to imitate anyone else. True, there are sequential and spacious sounds that remind one of 70's Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese, use of more unusual and sequential and melodic junctures as popularised by French synthesists: Richard Pinhas, Bernard Szajner, et al. Maybe the occasional lyrical tune that one could almost whistle too, a la Kitaro. Yet, with a forte for injecting mystery, depth and visual presence, it's often the atmosphere of Kevin's music that rides to the fore, a rich palette of electronic sound, intermingling sonic patterns, tones, intermodulations, etc.
YGGDRASIL is certainly one of his finest to date, featuring 41½ minutes of new recordings, as well as 24½ minutes in concert from June 1990. Of the new works, the 23 minute Yggdrasil itself is liable to challenge some, true it starts off calm, melodic and inviting, but by the time we reach the underworld Kevin's picture music becomes vivid, disturbing, quite menacing in fact, all without leaving a melodic focus. Kevin's talent for melodic "doodling" takes us through a wide range of feelings, every note with either a touch of pain, pleasure, anguish or consolation, whilst the backing sonic tapestry oozes, flows and glides around. In contrast, the three shorter studio recordings are not so unusual, offering a counterbalance, notably Taliesin with its long spacious tones, almost magical dancing melodies, vibrant arpeggios dancing on a mystical synthetic mist. This one is sure to delight MIRAGE era Schulze fans. Finally onto the live material. These three tracks offer an insight into his more structured performance mode, due to the essentially of backing tracks. However, this isn't to say that Kevin's live music is just a repeat of his recorded work, he still gives himself plenty of room for expression and improvisation with the solos and other sound-fills he cares to choose, and the expression given by these tracks is wide-ranging, with the richly sonic Katharsis Pt. 2, the anarchic and abstract Cziltang Brone Pt. 2, and the almost meditative, even new-agey (especially so for Kevin) The Game which often promises to break out, yet never does so - a great exercise in restraint.
So, again, Kevin has put together a fascinating album, full of invention and some surprises. Well done!
review by Alan Freeman (Audion #22. July 1992)