With his debut album APHANTAZIA, Yellow Majesty – the musical moniker of Amir
Haj-Bolouri, artist, producer, and professor based in Gothenburg – expands his artistic universe into full scale. Comprising 14 tracks, the album presents a sonic landscape where philosophy, technology, and art converge, moving between the monumental and the intimate, the electronic and the human, the cerebral and the visceral.
APHANTAZIA is a journey through illusion, desire, and the search for meaning. The title refers to the condition of aphantasia – the inability to form mental images – yet within Yellow Majesty’s world it becomes a metaphor for the fractured relationship between modern humans and reality itself. Through music, lyrics, and sonic intensity, Haj-Bolouri explores questions of body, perception, presence, and loss — not as abstract ideas, but as lived experiences.
The album unfolds through contrasts: vulnerability versus violence, spirituality versus machinery, beauty versus distortion. Tracks such as APHANTASIA, FORGET ABOUT IT, YOU ARE AN IDIOT, and STALKER serve as portals into the same world — one where the human struggle for meaning collides with the technological mirror.
All music is written, performed, and produced by Amir Haj-Bolouri, who stands alone behind every aspect of Yellow Majesty’s creative vision. The album was co-produced and mixed by Aaron Rubin (Blink 182) and mastered by Maor Appelbaum (Faith No More, Sepultura, Yes). Ilan Rubin (Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails) appears on the title track, and the striking artwork for singles are created by Inari Sirola, whose surreal visual language mirrors the album’s emotional and conceptual core. The album cover, however, is created by the New York based artist Dima Djurchin. Finally, the album is accompanied with a handful of music videos, one of them directed and animated by Inari, and three others directed and produced by Nicklas Lärka and his colleagues.
Yellow Majesty is more than an artist name – it is an artistic persona embodying Haj-Bolouri’s ongoing exploration of meaning, technology, and transformation. As a researcher and professor of informatics, he has long investigated how technology shapes human experience; through music, these inquiries take on another form — physical, poetic, and electrically alive.
APHANTAZIA is not merely an album, but an existential composition for our time — a work where sound becomes a way to reconnect with what we risk losing: presence, emotion, and the human pulse within the digital noise.
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