Pendel is the result of chaos, of trying out different recording, producing and composing methods, and of then sculpting sense from the recorded material. Unlike yadayn’s debut Vloed, which was a carefully planned monolyth of sound, a flooding of notes working towards the catharsis of its title track, Pendel is a comparatively eclectic collection of tracks, unified in their originating from the same artistic vision but diversified in their differing circumstances. Some tracks (“Spiegel”, “Pendel”, “Uit”) were composed specifically for the album, some are older compositions (“Raam”, “Veld”, Rust”, “Kerk”), while all of the shorter segues are based on samples taken from old yadayn (demo) recordings, twisted and flexed into new contexts. The eclectic methods blend the composed approach of previous yadayn work and the sampled, electronic approach of his casual work with Gluem. “Pendel” is Dutch for “pendulum” and symbolizes the mood swings found throughout the album and throughout its recording period. “Veld” is an interpretation of Modest Mussorgsky’s “Bydło” (part of his Pictures at an Exhibition) and features the voice of Icelandic Nobel prize laureate Halldór Kiljan Laxness reading his poem “Bráðum kemur betri tíð”. The voice sample in “Kerk” originates from a dubbed cassette tape found on a flea market in Cairo. Pendel was composed, improvised, sampled and recorded by yadayn (Gowaart Van Den Bossche) at home between summer 2014 and spring 2015. yadayn played : guitars, ukulele, keyboards, melodica, clarinet, samples. Mixed by Jonathan Baltussen & Gowaart Van Den Bossche Mastered by Mathias Van Eecloo Artwork Photography by Gowaart Van Den Bossche Inside Photography by Mathias Van Eecloo Design by Rémi Verdier