Yardsss Live Archive: A collection documenting the live performances of the project. All sets are entirely improvisational and long-playing.
Portland, OR
www.selfgroup.org/store/c48/yardssslivearchive
Regarding Krist Krueger's Yardsss: If you read about it before listening, you'd likely mistake it for a liberal arts master's thesis. Where most bands play "shows," Yardsss puts on "performance case studies" and multimedia installations, including a collection of songs inspired byβnot covers of!βavant-garde composer John Cage. All this could be completely obnoxious except for one thing: Yardsss is transcendentally, earth-shatteringly gorgeous. If you can make music like that, you get to call your show a case study.
Yardsss tends toward the dark and droning and bombastic, with heady, swelling orchestrations. Perhaps because human voices appear so rarely and the music is so evocative, it occasionally brings to mind Emeralds' Does It Look Like I'm Here? It doesn't take many listens to understand that Krueger is breaking boundaries not for the sake of being (or seeming) transgressive, but to make sounds that awaken actual feelingsβuplifting, inspiring emotions. - Portland MercuryRelease Notes
Doug Fir Lounge β’ Portland, OR
Performed by Krist Krueger, Robin Levy, Paul Michael Schaefer
Visuals by Colin Manning
Recorded live by Robert Bartleson / Haywire Recording
Mixed by Krist Krueger & Robert Bartleson
Produced by Krist Krueger
Mastered by Robert Bartleson at Haywire Recording