this one ezra tweet changed the course of zoomer electronic music on soundcloud forever

they asked me describe sound, i played this song in response

Second official single from the upcoming album "Aero".
Available november 9th,
https://tettixhexer.bandcamp.com/album/aero

Goobay [gəʊbaɪ]

yo here's the full mixtape where this comes from
https://bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/concertina

Production
JHL, @Viznode

Arrangement
JHL, @Viznode 

Recorder
JHL

special thanks to:
bleizik
emilydotgg
disphing
leastfavorite
evangeline
ykscii
flaks
mleuc
octave
viznode

Concertina

Fireflies

I started writing this song in the spring of ’22. This time was spent listening to the music of Yuki Kaneko and Manuella Blackburn while immersing myself in the flowering local grasslands. I was struck by the delicate, secluded intimacy of Yuki’s album “rut”, the jaw-dropping detail of Manuella’s “Formes audibles”, and how this music accentuated the surrounding landscape. I tried to capture this feeling and the sense of renewal it inspired while honoring these wonderful artists.

https://alexanderpanos.com

art in collaboration with Zachary Schwadel
instagram.com/zschwadel/

includes a sample of the title track from "rut" (and/OAR, 2008) by Yuki Kaneko
instagram.com/yuki_kaneko_bd/
https://www.and-oar.org/moar_2.html
many thanks to Yuki for generously allowing its inclusion

aperture, for meadow

CAUGHT UP [original demo "ITS UP U (IF U WANT IT)" from 2022(wip)]

SOPHIE - JUST LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE    _[ ☆ revamp (2022) ]

listen to this loud as hell in the club for the best experience

I STILL F*CKING LUV U

lethargy heart

taken from "concertina"
https://bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/concertina

—

its Wednesday evening, im sitting alone getting tipsy just by listening to jhl from MacBook Pro 14’ 2023 Apple M2 Pro speakers.
this is what i call A Sweet Melancholy.

♦

they say you can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness and it has to be true because i’ve been struggling with taking my ears of “concertina” - a blissful, dreamful, beautiful, meaningful, peaceful, cheerful, eventful marathon of ballads about all the tastes of Longing.

you see, usually, A Song is an empty shell to fill with one's soul. the fundament of this album is a collection of The-Ultimate-Poppiest-Pop-Songs that have been heard and (over)used so many times they are not (and they can’t be [and maybe they should not be]) shells anymore - they became sonic monuments appropriated by Those Who Own.
[don’t get me wrong - part of the pop’s charm is the fact that it is not emotionally owned by you]
jhl builds their own story on this fucked up fundament and it’s a story so intimate and so earnest that listening through these covers feels like reading an autobiography or screaming the deepest of your lungs out into the sky. it feels deeply Real. it feels cathartic.

the sparkling piled up granuling granular granules of vibrant sound design, the scintillating symphonies, the tight punchy crunchy crispy drums, the biosphere of OSCs, the tender angelic cherubic smooth vocals, The Infatuations.

♦

as you grow old, you change! your music taste changes, your eyesight gets worse, your back starts aching and memories collected through the years change too! jhl covers transcend the originals. they give them a new meaning. they let you merge with civilizational memories embedded in them.
Beautiful, Powerful and Magical - that’s what that album is
🥀

ps Owl City had a nice track with Carly Rea Jepson for ‘Wreck It Ralph’ - that album brought it back to my queue 

〉music and artwork by jhl
https://www.instagram.com/jhlofficixl
https://soundcloud.com/jhlofficixl

〉"Heaven" master by jhl

〉master by Fausto Mercier
https://linktr.ee/faustomercier

〉photo edit by Julek ploski
https://www.instagram.com/julekploski/

♫°009

「Buy/Support」

Somebody that I used to know (feat. Disphing)

THE DANCEFLOOR IS HEAVY. THE FIRST SINGLE ...

DOWN SOUTH (consolidated) #2

"Made to Loop"

Recently I took a trip back to Japan for the first time in 15 years. While being in bnb’s, hotels and on the bullet train with my laptop I was using projects like this as sort of a journal to creatively document it. I guess since Japan is part of my roots there was a lot feeling and thinking going on so it was definitely a needed outlet. 

This microsong is “made to loop” and sonically a direction I have been working on.

Cover by oeldrum (IG)
Mastered by Wayne Sunderland

Streaming/NINA/Bandcamp: https://linktr.ee/kenta204

Un(titled) Loop 1.3.4

through the fire..

THANK YOU CHINA FOR AN AMAZING TIME!

AUG 15 -- NECK OF THE WOODS -- AKL, NZ

Fireflies

jhl

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