memotone

Music:

Member Since: 23/04/2007
Band Members: William Yates on...All synths effects and tweeks. (Kaoss pad 3, Kaossilator, Digitech GNX3 and an MPC 1000.) All live instruments. (Guitar (Acoustic(steel and nylon), Semi , Electric, Bass( fret-less) Piano, Violin, Accordion, Squeeze box, Cello, Flute, Pump Organ, Harmonium, Harmonica, toy Saxaphone, Woodwind (pipes, penny whistle, ocarina, Recorder) Harp and xylophone. All Mic recorded sounds, All field recording Electric drum-kit and Acoustic drum-kit Keyboards and any other sound that might be made by a boy that likes to experiment. Including kitchen apparatus, a flushing toilet, white noise, dropping a ring pull onto a wet tissue (see if you can find it. haha.) and a toy bird that you fill with water and blow through so it sounds like its singing.

A little video of the sort of stuff I do live.
For more videos visit www.youtube.com and search 'memotone'
Influences:
My new Pump Organ.You should always be inspired never influenced.Most stuff on the LEAF record lable. Talk Talk, Radiohead, four tet, aphex twin, some drum and bass/dub step. Colleen, Radicle Fashion, Nicolas Repac, Achillies last stand, and any other music on my personal myspace profile.IcelandI am also inspired by my surroundings and situations. My dad is a big influence as his music knowledge and taste is so expansive and colourful.Also my friends and family help, just with there general everyday movements and activities. if i try and put what they are doing into music sometimes it comes out with quite interesting and unnatural outcomes.Also, Art and Photography a film and everything creative inspires me. sometimes i come up with the best phrases whilst just sitting at a blank page with my guitar waiting for something to draw to pop into my head.Obviously most things influence me in someway, so i will just leave it at that for now.

Sounds Like: REVIEWS.

Memotone - Space Ritual March 11th, 2009 by Dashiel Posted in Digital Music News
We’ve recently distributed a new offering from Memotone, one of the notables who’s kind enough to let us do his digital distribution for him. This new single is called ‘Space Ritual’, and seems to be a marked progression from his other work. It is more experimental and avant-garde, and perhaps some of the tracks on the four-song bundle, in particular the voice-jumble of Brelipomy are less approachable for that, but Memotone’s mission is to create impressionistic soundscapes from things taken from the world around him, and with that in mind, Space Ritual is an effective piece. There’s a depth and richness reminiscent of the Cinematic Orchestra in ‘Space Ritual’ and ‘The World Is Too Busy Ellen’. Listen to one of the tracks from this release here, but realise that the release has got much more to it and check out the rest of Memotone’s stuff!

Memotone – Music for Trains (debut album) December 5th, 2008 by Dashiel Posted in Artist / Label News, Music Review | Visited 215 times, 1 so far today
Memotone is somewhere between Lemon Jelly and the Cinematic Orchestra, which for a one man act, recording on an 8 track and a laptop is a pretty incredible achievement. William Yates has put together a bewilderingly large array of instruments into a really crystal clear, deep and textured soundscape, blending live instruments, samples, glitchy computer noises and sound effects like air raid sirens, lairy kids arguing in corridors and canned laughter. There are odd moments of humour and unease, drifting clouds of sound, sharp beats that bring you back to your senses and then drop away again to let warm, live double bass lines pour into your ears and build into complex little sonic poems that wrap back to the beats. I really like it. If I wasn’t already listening to it, I would buy a copy. In fact, petition him to get vinyl pressed, so I can buy a copy.

memotone Bedroom Session
Record Label: A Future Without
Type of Label: Indie