Lakes, rivers, oceans, rains, underground currents, dangerous swirls, cascades, source of life, fascinating landscapes and sounds we all know… Waters : so many faces and shapes inspiring this ambient jazz album, traveling from over the underworld to the air above the vastness of oceans, crossing the paths of waterfalls and lingering on simple droplets falling from the trees in the forest. The strong rhythms, synths and guitar improvisations build architectures over the ever renewing sounds of waters…

Released September 16, 2016

This album is available for download on his Bandcamp page

Bruffordfread’s’s review on Progarchives :

If Pat Metheny ever worked with Paul Hardcastle or Ed Wynne or Lars and Martin Horntveth this is the music you might get. Yves is, like Ed Wynne, a genius at getting synthetic ‘nature’ sounds out of his equipment’which I LOVE. And this is no poor imitator or second rate musician! We’re talking virtuosity! His textures and solos are all so well thought out, so perfectly layered or alternated’all with this amazing percussive foundation (some manual, a lot electronic).

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 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 and other synths to move the music forward on their melody lines. It’s truly gorgeous music, soul-engaging music.’ ‘ from my review of Forest Stairways.