The artist known as Yppah (pronounced “yip-ah”) is back with perhaps his most intimate work to date. Tiny Pause, due for release on Counter Records October 16, finds Yppah adopting an enormous technical shift in his writing process, moving away from largely software-based production and live instrumentation to modular synthesizers and samplers. Inspired in large part by 8mm footage and self-described “creepy/beautiful” archived film found on the internet, Yppah draws on the same palette of the living landscape, human memory and emotive warmth found in his prior work and magnifies it, echoing the sounds of Tycho, Baths and Boards of Canada.

Yppah (born Joe Corrales Jr.) has forged a career marked by ethereality and dynamism. Brought up on equal parts My Bloody Valentine and hip-hop, he has utilized a number of instruments and techniques. Previous records (2006’s You Are Beautiful At All Times, 2009’s They Know What Ghost Know, 2012’s Eighty One) have harnessed his cultural heritage and relentlesS musical curiosity.

Tiny Pause is informed in large part by shifts in Yppah’s life since his last work. Having toured the album, moved from Texas to Southern California and transitioned into more ambitious commercial work (for trailers, sound design and music libraries), Yppah soon found himself embracing hardware in a big way, buying and selling gear constantly while writing to find the best-suited combination for his workflow. The addition of two dogs to his home and a newfound hobby of surfing round out Yppah’s biggest influencers for the direction of the new record. And it all shows – the celestial dips and rises in “Occasional Magic,” the cascade of drums in “Little Dreamer,” the fractured ascent of “Spider Hands,” and the human-tinged glitches of “Neighborhoods”.

Emancipator w/ Wax Tailor (Solo Set) & Yppah

9/29/15 Republic New Orleans LA
9/30/15 Workplay Birmingham AL
10/1/15 Track 29 Chattanooga TN
10/2/15 International, The Knoxville TN
10/3/15 Orange Peel The Asheville NC
10/6/15 Lincoln Theatre Raleigh NC
10/7/15 Chop Shop, The Charlotte NC
10/8/15 Variety Playhouse Atlanta GA
10/9/15 Georgia Theatre Athens GA
10/10/15 Marathon Music Works Nashville TN
10/13/15 Upstate Concert Hall Clifton Park NY
10/14/15 Higher Ground Burlington VT
10/15/15 Paradise Rock Club Boston MA
10/16/15 Theater Of The Living Arts Philadelphia PA
10/17/15 Best Buy Theater New York NY
10/18/15 Town Ballroom Buffalo NY
10/20/15 Rex Theater Pittsburgh PA
10/21/15 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland OH
10/22/15 Vogue Theater, The Indianapolis IN
10/23/15 Intersection, The Grand Rapids MI
10/27/15 Ready Room St. Louis MO
10/28/15 Blue Note The Columbia MO
10/29/15 Majestic Live Madison WI
10/30/15 The Miramar Theater Milwaukee WI
10/31/15 Mill City Nights Minneapolis MN