Youran 揺籃, meaning cradle in old Japanese, takes in the uncertainties of the present moment as we persist in the vibration of possibilities. This latest project led by Joachim Badenhorst brings together an idiosyncratic group of  musicians with a rich and an eclectic mix of instrumentation, with Tsubasa Hori on taiko and koto, Alistair Payne on trumpet, Rutger Zuydervelt on electronics, Nabou Claerhout on trombone, Simon Jermyn on guitars and Joachim on reeds and vocals.

Having debuted at the former Margarine Factory in Rotterdam in the summer of 2023, the group interprets Joachim’s compositions with a long and slow metamorphic openness–embracing the peculiar sonic qualities in the grease-lined industrial space. The following summer they played another expansive three hour long set, together with the church's organist Hayo Boerema, at the medieval Laurenskerk in Rotterdam. The recordings from these live happenings were reworked and fused with studio sessions by Joachim and Rutger, who then processed them into decomposed compositions that became their self-titled debut album. 

During their release tour this past fall, the group continues to excavate and revel in unnamed energies, between the intensively delicate and intimately explosive,–inherent in the walls and structures, in the instruments, and in all of us–for immersive experiences unique to each performance. At once celestial and of a dark murkiness, the project grew out of sonic-corporeal explorations with grand spaces, towards an attempt to carve and hold inward space for broken down emotions, anchored by radical corrosion–in becoming. 

album:

https://joachimbadenhorst.bandcamp.com/album/youran

https://open.spotify.com/album/1v2yfZHibmPRbMPjW26rVx
 

live videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Qi5o47Dp8&list=RD0_Qi5o47Dp8&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGpLuehw6E