While he had previously composed only instrumental works, Yan Lohendra recently composed and produced an album of songs, “Weirder Words”, of which he also wrote almost all the texts, and which involves the virtual singer Tashaa and her alter ego Taalhia.

The music he composes is gently atonal, even if it recently includes unharmonized melodies that hover over it. It’s not really dissonant, which would make it too hard to listen to. It can be classified in the experimental pop category.

The process of composing Yan Lohendra’s music begins with sequences of simple notes that he gradually complicates and refines, until arriving at the final arrangement and the melody which is added at the end. In the beginning, there is a simple guiding idea or theme based on the lyrics of a song, without planning or a defined project. He mixes and masters his songs himself.

His sources of inspiration are very varied and include of course atonal music, but also zeuhl, electro, hip hop, rock, progressive rock, techno.