The album Tristopia by the band Yottagon could be described as an amalgamation of contrasting ideas, maybe even contradictory in their core, and the attempt to overcome those. This attempt is done not by compromising and meeting in the centre between two extremes, but through finding the bigger picture in which all of those are contained.
This is paralleled by the band’s writing process for this album: While the starting point of the compositions originate from individual members, the final version is always the product of hours of experimenting, negotiating and overthrowing ideas until the members‘ shared vision of the music emerges. While this constructive workflow does induce a general optimism towards the creative potential of a democratic process, the album’s title, that had already been chosen some time ago, seems like a fitting comment on the present global situation.
Tristopia addresses the sometimes harsh and seemingly grim reality of the world we live in, as well as the question of how we decide to deal with it.