Mirage

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Driven By Clouds

The Stars Align

Nicolas Jaar - Time For Us

The Skywatchers Handbook

Do You Want To Go To Space Young Man?

« 10 ans de projets, de groupes, de tournées, de répétitions, de disques sous le nom de Yom... 10 ans de rencontres et d’amitiés, 10 ans à sillonner la France et le monde en compagnie de musiciens, d’ingénieurs du son, de road-managers, de régisseurs, d’éclairagistes, de producteurs, de tourneurs, d’attachés de presse, de directeurs de label et autres métiers de lumière ou d’ombre, sans lesquels tout ça n’aurait jamais pu exister. Alors un immense merci à toutes les personnes, musiciens ou non, qui ont permis et permettent encore cette aventure hallucinante et…Merci mille fois à vous d’être encore là, aux concerts ou avec cet album entre les mains ! »											Yom

Yom by Yom Part 1

Rêve de l'enfant

The Ginning

The Finishing

some ultra cool classic from jj cale, spiced up by some r n b for the perfect beach bar situation.

Tijuana ( Beach Messiah Rewire )

Surface Currents

Coral Blossom

was in 1996 that Jay-Jay Johanson, a young man from a cold climate, fascinated by the Bristol sound they called trip-hop and Portishead in particular, first tapped delicately on our eardrums.
The intoxicating album that definitively put this rare and elegant Swede on the map was called Whiskey. It was the beginning of an enthralling adventure. In only a few songs he revealed a family tree that spread its roots far and wide: on one branch Lee Hazlewood, or pop from Talk Talk or Nilsson, on the other John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, and a whole army of calm jazz or symphonic
recordings sampled from everywhere imaginable.
Almost 20 years later he has returned with an
incredible new album. This new release is called Opium and it contains the very essence of Johanson’s music: an ease with inventing melodies, a voice that gently caresses, and the jacked up, heady rhythms that lift and carry the songs. From the peaceful harmonica opening of Drowsy / Too Young To Say Good Night to the smoke-wreathed love song I Don’t Know Much About Loving, via titles with a sporadic and light groove (NDE, Alone Too Long), Opium is a courageous offering. Johanson opens his heart with
fearlessness and modesty, gracefully lowering his guard and evoking the questions that torment men of his age: love, solitude, immaturity. The songwriting is unerring, the words have a suppressed poetry. This
new Johanson is the work of a guy who has survived the avalanches, who is no longer looking for answers and is content to sketch out the perspectives in as many songs. Some titles are serious (Harakiri), but others immediately take up the reins casting a more
gentle, peaceful light, like Scarecrow, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie that would not have sounded out of place on a Cocteau Twins album, or of the strange positivity of Be Yourself or I Love Him So.
The strength of Opium is that it asks questions that don’t necessarily have an answer; it offers a collection of songs freed from any certitude but which convince
through their modesty, through their precision.
In short, Jay-Jay at his best.

The Stars Align

JAY-JAY JOHANSON

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