Yanni On ‘Sensuous Chill,’ Playing The Pyramids & ‘New Age’ Music [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]

Yanni, the Greek composer and music producer, recently dropped his 17th studio album, Sensuous Chill, which he’s not too shy to say is what he likes listening to most these days.

Yanni On ‘Sensuous Chill’

“You know, it’s one of my favorite albums right now,” Yanni, told uInterview in an exclusive interview about Sensuous Chill, which took five years to come together. “I wanted to create an album that would create atmosphere for the listener that was first of all sensuous. I wanted it to be melodious. I wanted it to be rhythmic. At the same time, I wanted it to be sexy.”

Sensuous Chill was spurred on by Yanni’s desire for an album that – from start to finish – allowed the listener to be lost in it. Unable to find a “station” on the multitude of streaming services that delivered on the promise of providing enjoyment while not requiring one’s full attention, Yanni set out to make his own album that did just that.

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“Out of desperation I decided: Here’s what I want, I want this, I want it precisely in this fashion. So it was…” Yanni, whose full name is Yiannis Chryssomallis, explained of his new album. “It works for me. I hope people enjoy it.”

Asked to pick his favorite song out of the 17 on Sensuous Chill, Yanni declines. “Once they all come together as one the whole album becomes a track,” he says. “There’s a beginning a middle and an end. And it flows, like a song.”

Yanni dedicates nearly as much time and attention to the details of a concept to his live shows as he does to his albums. Last fall, he had the honor and the pleasure of performing at the Great Pyramids of Giza. Like with other notable concert venues he’s played at over the years, the last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence proved a challenging concert stage – but one well worth the challenge.

“Oh, don’t even ask about the technical aspect. That is not an easy concert to do,” Yanni told uInterview. “Any time you see me play at the Acropolis, the Taj Mahal, the Forbidden City, the Pyramids, or any of that stuff, assume that it is a year’s work of preparations, and work of a lot of people. The experience, though, was phenomenal.”

Yanni, who is excited to be playing across the United States this year, has amassed his dedicated following with his impressive output of experimental instrumental music. He’s also earned the label of a “new age” artist, which Yanni thinks is a misnomer.

“Nobody knows what New Age is! What is New Age?” asks Yanni. Flinging off the label while pointing out its shortcomings, Yanni declared, “New Age becomes Old Age really fast.”
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