Rejoice!
(2024)
Cuneiform Records Rune 524

In this album, enriched by Carla Kihlstedt's voice on 10 of the 13 tracks, Yang could now be questionned as an instrumental band.
The lyrics, though being used as triggers for impressions like in Designed for Disaster convey now real meaning. We prefer to quote here Cuneiform Records' press release text:
"Composed in the wake of Covid and as Fascism, Wars and Climate crises globally rise, Rejoice! offers a healing response for surviving this New Dark Age. Yang reveals music's power to purge darkness from our souls. In Rejoice!, [the band] reminds us to embrace whatever beauty and light the world retains, and to transform the darkness into art."

Rejoice! has been imagined as a "healing" album.

Frédéric L'Epée, guitars, keyboards, chorus; Laurent Mouton guitars, voice, chorus; Nico Gomez bass, chorus; Volodia Brice drums
Carla Kihlstedt guest Voice
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Designed for Disaster
(2022)
Cuneiform Records Rune 494

"Fourth album of the band, Designed for Disaster is the first one to be partly sung.
In this new opus, words are used as triggers for impressions and have no narrative function like in ancient Chinese poetry.
The human race is on the way of its own extinction.
Evolution gave us thinking, but we are unable, as a species, to think beyond our individual interest. We use our mind in order to acquire what we want for us or for our tribe. Mysticism directed towards gods or equivalent often replaces responsability. We end up acting at the same time without conscience and without instinct. We seem to be meant to fail, designed for disaster."

Frédéric L'Epée, Laurent Mouton guitars; Nico Gomez bass; Volodia Brice drums
Ayşe Cansu Tanrıkulu guest Voice
(To listen to samples click on the image)

The Failure of Words
(2017)
Yang Music YM1702

"The Failure of Words" is a touchstone in Yang's evolution. This album, unlilke the others aim no more to sound like in live situation but is a musical process in itself. The idea behind the project was to express the inability, as human beings, to really communicate with our species, always experiencing conflict, disharmony and delusion. Only art, love, are able to convey our deepest feelings and ideas. Words failed us.

Frédéric L'Epée, Laurent Mouton guitars; Nico Gomez bass; Volodia Brice drums
(To listen to samples click on the image)

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Machines
(2010)
Yang Music VOC1527

The meaning of the title "Machines" comes from the idea that organisms, whether mechanic, organic, social, ideational or cultural (like a music band for instance) behave like complex machines, using and processing raw materieal (organic elements, minerals, food, hopes, ideas, influences) to create new elements, energie, art, music etc.
(See "the Desiring-Machine by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari)

Frédéric L'Epée, Laurent Mouton guitars; Nico Gomez bass; Volodia Brice drums
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A Complex Nature
(2004)
Cuneiform Records Rune 197

We live in a time of excessive quest of easiness and simplification, and we are undoubtly rushing to our own destruction. Only Complex-Thinking (La Pensée Complexe - Edgar Morin), which tries to consider of as many parameters as possible, or at least the consciousness of that complexity, can help us to contemplate the the world as it is: a Complex Nature. Yang's music does not search for complexity, it tries to underline the inherent complexity of what can be simply conceived and perceived.

Frédéric L'Epée, Julien Vecchié guitars; Stéphane Bertrand bass; Volodia Brice drums
(To listen to samples click on the image)