A stairway is an uncommon artifact in the woods. Who built it ? And when ? What is on top of it ? The 5 long tracks ascend and go down such steps to imaginary places, taking the listener to float away in the mist of dreams.

Forest Stairways is a set of electronic soundscapes wandering behind the trees and ferns in the deep forests. Guitars, koto and synths build melodic improvisations over strong rhythms, drums and strange percussions blending smoothly inside circling synths pads and textures.
Somewhere between Tangerine Dream and Weather Report, remembering Yes and Pink Floyd, this ambient jazz music take the listener into a unique imaginary travel, full of reveries and mystical projections that soothe the soul and thrill the mind.

Album released September 5, 2017

This album is available for download on his Bandcamp page

AussieByrdBrother’s review on Progarchives :

Intelligent and thoughtful ambient/prog-electronic French artist Yves Potin usually releases works under the alias Jazzcomputer.org, but this 2017 offering sees the man reclaiming his own name, and why shouldn’t be proud to do so – `Forest Stairways’ is one of his most colourful and unpredictable instrumental efforts to date! He incorporates a mix of ethnic instrumentation, keyboards, programming and guitars to craft a series of restrained prog-rock pieces, New-Age soundscapes, chilled jazzy diversions, light world music elements and hypnotic ambient atmospheres that can call to mind everything from Tangerine Dream, Andreas Vollenweider, the Delerium label era of Porcupine Tree and even the acoustic/electronic fusion of the early Ozric Tentacles discs at any moment – or sometimes all within the one track!

Bruffordfreak’s review on progarchives :

Jazz multi-instrumentalist Yves Potin puts lush soundscapes together in a way that might be familiar to lovers of the music of Andreas Vollenveider and Robin Guthrie or even Ozric Tentacles, Steve and David Gordon, and Paul Hardcastle but where Yves’ music is different from the cited artists is in his exciting and use of percussion, layers and layers of synthetically-rendered musical nature sounds over which he employs heavily treated guitars, koto, and other synths to move the music forward on their melody lines. It’s truly gorgeous music, soul-engaging music.