Jonah Yano - Souvenir - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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