The latest by international psycho-acoustic guild Yayoba takes its title from the Finnish word for ‘journeys’ or ‘trips,’ evoking both the music’s questing spirit and its cosmic, lysergic ethos: Matkat. The album’s 14 tracks span the gamut of the group’s surrealist world-building: lunar mycological seances, metallic woodwind silhouettes, pointillist plasmatic soups, ethnographic sci-fi soundtracking, spore-harvesting reveries, deep space starbirths. Despite the omnivorous palette, the songs share a certain a smelted, bioluminescent quality, stewed in and sifted from a collective vat of molten alien ore.
Long-distance chemistry is a gift not a given but Yayoba’s triumvirate – Paul Wilson, Jani Hirvonen, and Johannes Schebler – have each logged a lifetime in shape-shifting outskirts of the experimental underground, and their affinity is audible. Matkat unfolds like a dizzying swap-meet of gene-spliced electronics, stalagmite drip, asteroid dust, and black market fungus, molded at a forge of circuits and glass, then cast into the cloud to gleam and confound.
Long-distance chemistry is a gift not a given but Yayoba’s triumvirate – Paul Wilson, Jani Hirvonen, and Johannes Schebler – have each logged a lifetime in shape-shifting outskirts of the experimental underground, and their affinity is audible. Matkat unfolds like a dizzying swap-meet of gene-spliced electronics, stalagmite drip, asteroid dust, and black market fungus, molded at a forge of circuits and glass, then cast into the cloud to gleam and confound.
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releases October 2, 2026
Mastered by Jared Carrigan.
Design by Johannes Schebler.
Mastered by Jared Carrigan.
Design by Johannes Schebler.