Jonah Yano - Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

When you listen to these songs, all types of feelings and sensations start to coalesce in different parts of your body. It's hard to define them because they speak to emotional gradients, contradictions, and contrasts not the type of emotions that you can easily qualify with a single word. Real relationships, beyond the reductive Incha moment in timeInch type of snapshots, are like that complex and dynamic. This is what makes this record exceptional - and not only as far as instrumental music is concerned!

Meet Jonah Yano, the Toronto based singer, songwriter, whose journey into music began with recording music using his cellphone in 2016. Having played piano and guitar as a child, it wasn't until Yano moved from Vancouver to Toronto in 2016 that he began putting his songs online, catching the eyes of Toronto's thriving local music scene. Spending the next couple of years obsessively songwriting and practicing vocals, and learning technical skills, he collaborated with Toronto duo MONEYPHONE on the 2018 song InchOn LockInch which became an underground success. Shortly after, Yano released his first solo single InchRolex, the Ocean' with producer Joseph L'etranger. Once he began writing his full EP, he was introduced to frequent collaborators BADBADNOTGOOD, who are featured on the EP's title track, Inchnervous.Inch Yano's work has garnered praise in major music publications like The Fader, Billboard, Complex, and Exclaim and the attention of Virgil Abloh and Gilles Peterson along with millions of streams on Spotify and Apple Music. Most recently, Yano released a highly praised cover of the Majestic's InchKey to Love (Is Understanding)Inch also with BADBADNOTGOOD, finding himself in the natural position of writing the feature length album, 2020's souvenir.Following a highly acclaimed 2019 which included the of an EP nervous, collaborations with BADBADNOTGOOD, MONEYPHONE, and Nono; industry praise from The Fader, Billboard, High Snobiety, NME, KCRW and Exclaim - it's not a stretch to say Jonah Yano's highly anticipated debut feature album souvenir took a lifetime to make.Yano's souvenir, mixes his soulful, genre blurring vocals with searing, personal lyrics. With collaborations from talents like producers Monsune (Inchstrawberry!,Inch InchdelicateInch), Leland Whitty of BADBADNOTGOOD (Inchpoor me,Inch Inchmonarch,Inch InchanywhereInch), and Jacques Greene (Inchwhat i can

It's a sense of freedom and endless possibility that defines Lava Lamp, Jonah Tolchin's bold and adventurous new collection. Built around a series of loose, live-in-the-studio performances, the record is more sonically diverse than anything in Tolchin's catalog, expanding on the folk-blues style he's become known for to incorporate elements of indie rock and grunge fueled by gritty electric guitars and a muscular rhythm section. The songs are raw and emotional, reckoning with alienation and escapism in a modern world defined by 24/7 stimulation, but there's a buoyancy to them that belies their intensity, a mischievous playfulness that Tolchin credits in part to his new role as a stepfather. In that sense, Lava Lamp can be heard as the sound of Tolchin reconnecting with his own childhood, casting off the burdens of expectation and returning to a musical sandbox where the only limits are the bounds of his own imagination.