Do You Really Like it When the Bad Thoughts Don't Come

by Yvonne LeBien

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1.	Yvonne Lebien - Do You Really Like it When the Bad Thoughts Don't Come - A1 - Untitled 15:01	buy track
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Brooklyn-based artist Yvonne Lebien’s debut release for Voluminous Arts is a strikingly intimate set of vocal improvisations. Entitled Do You Really Like It When The Bad Thoughts Don’t Come, this collection is an exploration of the trauma of being perceived: the four tracks exhibit a voice exposed, without instruments, without effects, simply a performer and a channel. A being and a microphone.

Lebien’s vocalizations showcase the emotional range the human voice is capable of, while intentionally standing apart from the virtuosity of extended vocal technique as well as the conceptualism of sound poetry. Instead there are nearly inaudible whispers, guttural screams, many tiny exorcisms of air between lips–a demand to be heard, coupled with the deep longing to conceal, forces those who choose to engage these works to reckon with what is usually tucked within the sound of synthesizers, samples and other technological innovations. The artist has stripped away the authority that music can often engender and the hierarchies that have become embedded in that authority. Nothing is disguised here and one voice, both vulnerable and defiant, is hauntingly present and yet terrified. In this each performance evokes a vulnerability that can only arise when the body itself becomes an instrument.

The album title begs the question, what are “Bad Thoughts,” and what within ourselves are we avoiding when they “don’t come”? What are we afraid of? The album embraces feelings of shame and absurdity in an attempt to articulate a way out of the snares patriarchy has laid around the idea of innovation and the way those snares have hijacked practices of composing experimental music. Similarly, daring to be intimately present is an act of divesting from unsustainable production methods: Lebien imagines a perhaps not-too-distant future in which we have lost access to the internet, electricity, more importantly food and water and have only our bodies, our voices, our mouths. Can musicians seize the means of production for themselves, perhaps even make them irrelevant?

Do You Really Like It When The Bad Thoughts Don’t Come is the fourth release in Voluminous Arts’ cassette series. Building on the Gen-X tradition of the mixtape - a carefully crafted selection of sounds to be passed to someone special - the cassette series introduces Voluminous Arts artists in an intimate and personal way.

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released March 25, 2022

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