{"title":"Joyfultalk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOYFULTALK is the brainchild of composer, producer, arranger, instrument builder, multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist Jay Crocker. With a unique blend of experimental soundscapes and captivating visuals, *Jay Crocker* pushes the boundaries of music and art. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of genres and influences, JOYFULTALK creates immersive sonic experiences that transport listeners to new dimensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar to artists such as Deliluh, Donna Thompson, and Meadow Meadow, JOYFULTALK's music resonates with those who appreciate innovative and boundary-pushing compositions. Combining elements of electronic music with organic instrumentation, their tracks are a mesmerizing fusion of textures and rhythms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an accomplished instrument builder and multi-instrumentalist,*Jay Crocker* brings a unique perspective to their performances. Utilizing custom-made instruments alongside traditional ones, JOYFULTALK crafts intricate melodies that captivate audiences worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"plurality-trip","title":"Plurality Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 2nd full-length (and Constellation debut) from JayCrocker’s acclaimed Kosmiche machine music project, following his 2015 release on Drip Audi. Joyfultalk offers up instrumental compositions that flow like wordless rivers and glitching fields of electricgrass, through a bric-a-brac vocabulary of handmade electronics. Their music channels a sonic regionalism influenced by the craggy treelines and babbling brooks of Lunenburg county, with gnarled jamscapes rendering natural spaces in a hazy parallel universe, navigating the astral plane by way of their rugged Maritime environs. \u003ci\u003ePlurality Trip\u003c\/i\u003e is an extension and refinement of the duo’s junkshop practices, drawing from contemporary dark trance and techno, while rooted in the outré swamps of krautrock and the refracted webs of noise and dub. Though heavier than its predecessor, the weight is never debilitating – Crocker and Dicey roam the shadows with rugged tones that reveal an expansive core. Pulled into a half-sped ghetto tech mirage, woozy on new-age overdose, the listener may be lulled into a key-run reminiscent of Mahmoud Ahmed before eddying into a whirlpool of industrial jank. Heady and skitteringly kinetic, \u003ci\u003ePlurality Trip\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds like a fever dream shot through with dappled forest light and darkening skies. The result is a superbly idiosyncratic and invigorating take on avant-trance music with few comparisons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - 180 Gram Vinyl that includes 12”x24” Art Print Poster and Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50406777913675,"sku":"1041732","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c6f354d1-7e19-4816-a4bf-acd067fe6936_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726590781"},{"product_id":"familiar-science","title":"Familiar Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoyfultalk returns with its third album for Constellation; another vibrantly divergent stylistic take on the analogue materiality and sensibility of electronic composer-producer Jay Crocker, whose previous two records forged trance-inducing polyrhythmic intricacy. Familiar Science rallies contributions from a larger cast of musicians into a looser, cosmic recombinant combo still shot through with Joyfultalk s singular mixing desk kinetics, but this time deep-diving into gnarled and twisted, spliced and diced out-jazz. Crocker draws inspiration from 1980s M-Base music and Ornette Coleman’s harmolodic funk period, while his own prior history as an improv guitarist also resurfaces for the first time in many years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamiliar Science finds Crocker folding time (as lockdown will do), immersed in his present-day kaleidoscope of solitary art and music practices in rural Nova Scotia, while channeling his former life as a bustling jazz collaborator in Calgary, Alberta. Building outwards from roiling resampled acoustic drums, Crocker extracted additional sonic and rhythmic textures, then formed the head of each song using dusted-off archival recordings and his own bass, keys and midi sequencing. Albertan percussionists Eric Hamelin (Ghostkeeper, Chad Vangaalen) and Chris Dadge (Lab Coast, Alvvays) provided improvised drum tracks to be chopped and harvested; Nova Scotia-based Nicola Miller (Ryan Driver, Doug Tielli) laid down resplendent excursions on saxophone and flute; Crocker’s own dexterous guitar appears on several cuts. Familiar Science also poignantly features samples from live recordings by the late Calgary saxophonist iconoclast Dan Meichel, catalysing some of the album’s heaviest contortions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constellation","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50407651246411,"sku":"1149615","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50407654752587,"sku":"1149616","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/376e956f-e334-4828-a9c4-ab1db5e6d0f6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726599974"},{"product_id":"a-separation-of-being","title":"A Separation of Being","description":"\u003cp\u003eFree-thinking Nova Scotia composer, musician and visual artist Jay Crocker (aka Joyfultalk) channels Minimalism, Japanese environmental music, Maghrebian rhythmic modes and other numinous folkways to create his most focused, vibrant work to date. Based on a monumental, kaleidoscopic graphic score,\u003ci\u003e A Separation Of Being\u003c\/i\u003e is translated from two-dimensional page to trans-dimensional aural life using an array of homemade instruments, crowned with a majestic string arrangement written by Crocker and performed by Polaris and Juno winner Jesse Zubot (Tanya Tagaq, Destroyer). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisual scores often provoke ideas of openness, interpretation, improv and fluidity. Joyfultalk's third album, and second for Constellation, is an altogether different beast. This three-part suite is airtight; interlocking arcs of polyrhythmic deep groove and new minimalism roll out in spellbinding propulsion, the music gathering its warmth from the strings and its peculiarities from Crocker's bespoke instrumentation and analog clockworks. The separation of being here is not division or rupture, but buoyant freedom through conduction of circulatory energies, marked by flowing melodic rondos of gyrating strings and sonic pointillism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Separation Of Being\u003c\/i\u003e is a systems music feast for the heart and mind. And lest we forget the eyes: Crocker began developing 'The Planetary Music System', his particular methodology for visualized composition, in 2012. \u003ci\u003eA Separation Of Being\u003c\/i\u003e is the sound of one of Canada's most compelling and iconoclastic contemporary musical minds sublimated into a career-defining record of mesmeric coherence and clarity. For fans of Steve Reich, Laurel Halo, Actress, Mikael Seifu, Laurie Spiegel and Penguin Café Orchestra. P is 180gram on midnight ultrablack vinyl with 12” x 24” art print poster + DL. 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