Yelo returns to the platforms with
'MFA (My Female Ancestor)',
a corrosive journey through the recesses of her memory
Following the release of ‘Sinking Boat’, a minimalist ballad to start the road, and ‘Kill Me’, a corrosive song about the process of musical composition, YELO perseveres on the path of tracing the nature of their sound with the release of a new single, ‘MFA (My Female Ancestor)’. MFA offers an extensive and progressive journey in which each of the emotions involved has the necessary time to develop and give way to the successive ones. In this way, the different elements find their place to impregnate the space with airs of nostalgia and intimacy and pave the way and the development of the journey towards the irruption of other feelings such as indignation, fragility or empathy.
The song explores the sorrow caused by observing a heartbreaking scene from the shelter of a shadow. On the one hand, an old man struggles between screams and deliriums during his last hours of life. Beside
him, an old woman by a dim light stands solemnly as she watches over her husband's journey to the next world. She is suffering, but seems impassive, without uttering a single word or producing any gesture.
Thus, over an amalgam of alternative rock and trip hop elements, the play of voices suggests the details of the scene in a process of accumulation of emotions that explodes at the end of the journey. ‘The narration aims to transmit the fear that comes from knowing that everything is about to come to an end’, says the artist from Murcia.
“Tú fuera, tú fuera del tiempo y me pregunto si ello tendrá sentido para ti”
Ramón P. Yelo
Yelo releases Kill Me, his new single, under the slogan:
“Die to live stronger”
After 'Sinking Boat', a minimalist ballad to start the way, Yelo breaks with the wake of this precedent and launches on all streaming platforms a new single articulated by the reflection of different emotions under the name of 'Kill Me'. This new proposal elaborates a whirlwind of concepts where the artist's taciturn voice is combined with bursts of rage that arise, precisely, from the fragility that underlies this structure.
When a song comes into your hands and you shape it, each new nuance is a surprise that, in some strange way, is familiar. For this reason, the sound of 'Kill Me' evokes a memory that seems alien and, as such, sows the voices of the past to harvest whatever the mirror of the present wants to deliver.
‘In reality, it was one of the first songs I composed to define the sound of this project, this is where it all began’, confesses the singer-songwriter.
The song represents, in this way, the spirit of exploration of the artist in a journey that travels through the squares of indie rock, grunge and alternative metal to culminate in a heterodox explosion of fry scream. This is how Yelo offers a new prism of approach to his artistic proposal and uncovers one more part of this scheme under the slogan: “Dying to live stronger”. Because to love something is, in a way, to die for it.
“No querer traer sin caos portátiles vocablos”
Alejandra Pizarnik