https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/1e6aad02-c6ad-42bc-b177-fb03703adc74 Yardsss Live Archive: A collection documenting the live performances of the project. All sets are entirely improvisational and long-playing. 6/13/2017 Portland, OR Black Water www.yardsss.com 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 by—not covers of!—avant-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 feelings—uplifting, inspiring emotions. - Portland Mercury Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:39:13 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://kolektiva.media https://kolektiva.media/lazy-static/avatars/ae7559b5-7dc1-44e3-abfb-2486f3fb1efc.png https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/1e6aad02-c6ad-42bc-b177-fb03703adc74 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://kolektiva.media/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.