catalogue

JONI VOID

EVERYDAY IS THE SONG (CONSTELLATION)

JONI VOID - EVERYDAY IS THE SONG 158361
format:
1 CD
release:
26.05.2023
label:
CONSTELLATION
genre:
Electro/Funk
item ID:
158361
barcode:
0666561017323
Everyday Is The Song is Joni Void's third album for Constellation and a deeper plunge into emotive audio montage; the Montréal-based French-British producer calls it "Tape Vortex / Musique Verité / Memory Collage".

The album's raw material relies centrally on a Walkman bought at local record shop Death Of Vinyl in spring 2020 and lost at a Backxwash show two years later, but not before hours of audio snippets were captured and archived.

Everyday Is The Song is an evocative sample-based sonic diary brimming with warmth, transience and hyper-specificity where Void explores a more abstract and interstitial terrain of drifting miniatures.

It remains very much a collection of songs, butrelative to the more assertive and intensive tracks channeling explorations of traumatic interiority on their previous pair of acclaimed LPs, Void's new album flows with intentional lightness and a more incidental atmosphere.

Songs are constructed from audio recordings made all over and often while literally on the move: walking, cycling and skateboarding around the city; in bus and train stations; from car windows.

The album's overt musical material was recorded, often spontaneously and informally, in all sorts of jam spaces, living rooms and at local live shows.

Perambulation is a central theme and constituent fabric of Everyday Is The Song, carrying with it a colloquial spirit of gentle, intrinsic sentimentality.

The self-proclaimed "love, soul, agency, and whimsy" virtues of Ruby Yacht (R.A.P. Ferreira, Pink Navel, et al) have also been a lodestar for Void in this respect.

The album's sonic travelogue through local audio geography and community conveys a sort of urban pastoralism and charming softness.

Less kinetic and beat-driven than previous work, a field recording and audio art sensibility prevails, with a tempered intimacy that sends this new song cycle sailing along mostly dulcet but detailed waves of materiality.

The result is an electro-acoustic tape collage album of beautifully drifting melody, occasional voice, wide-ranging `instrumentation' and enchanting texture.

Void's deeply personal and keenly original aesthetic of assemblage and experimentation is on fine display, less burdened by forceful statement-making, but scrupulous, generous, and full of feeling.

Musician friends whose instruments, sounds and voices appear on the album include Owen Pallett, N NAO, YlangYlang, Sarah Pagé, Shota Yokose, Mojeanne Behzadi, Maya Kuroki, Moshi Moshi and Thoughts On Air to name just a few.

The album's title comes from Strawberry723, a Twitter bot that posted "Everyday Is The Song".

The cover art is by Masaaki Yuasa. Everyday Is The Song remains perhaps broadly melancholic in temperature, but marks a turn away from angst, agitation, despondency or despair for Joni Void.

Instead, its subjectivity imbues the quotidian with affecting narrative, understated wonder, and a wholly engaging serenity.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. TAPE
  • 1.2. STILL LIFE
  • 1.3. DISPOSABLE
  • 1.4. NON LOCALITY
  • 1.5. EVENT HORIZON
  • 1.6. NEGATIVE LOOP
  • 1.7. IN-BETWEEN MOMENTS
  • 1.8. PARALLAX ERROR (+ N NAO)
  • 1.9. WORLD IS SPINNING AT 33 RPM
  • 1.10. VORTEX ANY% SPEEDRUN
  • 1.11. PRESENT DAY MONTAGE
  • 1.12. POST-CREDITS SCENE