On August 11th 2011, the first 'official' album for the project johnny_ripper was released online, titled 'soundtrack for a film that doesn't exist'. A concept & sound that lasted 6 years, 6 albums, 3 remix compilations & a collaborative EP; before the name was eventually changed to 'Joni Void' in 2017.

Retrospective is a compilation of 19 songs / selection of early material from johnny_ripper, with fresh remasters from Amar Lal, focusing particularly on original compositions / the 'soundtrack piano' material of the first albums, creating what is essentially the most 'personal' album to date in that sense. This is the first time a johnny_ripper release is pressed on a physical format.

"this life took a minute to grab
but when i slipped in the rap
i noticed the deal was done
and basically i had won
so when i ran it all back,
i took a minute to ask
if anything i could do,
would jump me right back to you
young dev your on the right path
just take the door at most laugh
when things get quiet for you
you’ll know just what u can do,
be loud and let it grow up
you honestly got the stuff
remember that is not luck
remember to say so what:
- Pink Navel - So What
from 'Giraffe Track'

all songs written & produced by Jean Néant / Joni Void
formerly known as johnny_ripper
from 2010 to 2016

except for Cat Soup
based on/samples the short-film ‘Nekojiru-sô’
by Tatsuo Sato & Masaaki Yuasa

Artwork by Masaaki Yuasa

Mastering by Amar Lal
at Macro

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Retrospective

Remix/Re-interpretation of Dido's White Flag

For Everyday Ago's first label sampler, available on (fake) Gameboy Cartridge. Including 11 other songs from collaborative projects & featured artists.

https://everydayago.bandcamp.com/album/sanspleur

SansPleur

White Flag (Remix)

You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?


song of healing

original • https://soundcloud.com/blithefield/free-from-all-sense-of-purpose

blithe field - free from all sense of purpose (johnny_ripper remix)

audrey

Remix of Quinton Barnes
https://soundcloud.com/quintonbarnes

Scenes Of originally appears on 'For The Love of Drugs'
https://quintonbarnes.bandcamp.com/album/for-the-love-of-drugs-2

Samples PARALIX - Marijuana Werewolf & Vangelis - Ballad
https://paralix.bandcamp.com/track/marijuana-werewolf-2

On the occasion of Quinton Barnes, Joni Void & Magella performing at l'Hemisphère Gauche on November 24th 2022

Quinton Barnes - Scenes Of (Joni Void Remix)

everything from The Tatami Galaxy
a tv series created by Masaaki Yuasa
music composed by michiru oshima

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私 (watashi)

piano, vocals and sounds from letter from an unknown woman
a film directed by max ophüls 
with joan fontaine
music composed by daniele amfitheatrof

joan

original • https://soundcloud.com/rickyeatacid/inside-my-house-some-place-i-1

ricky eat acid - inside my house; some place i keep dreaming about (johnny_ripper remix)

A meeting of fate for a house-show in April 2018 made Maya Kuroki and Joni Void perform & improvise soundscapes frequently together through out the years, whether as a duo or as part of different groups - for live shows, radio sessions and studio jams.

AGE is a 4 song offering that represents the eccentric duo's symbiosis in recording form, where the theatrical and exuberant vocals of Kuroki meet the manic beats / montage production of Void; appropriately described as 'demented dancehall' by Personal Touch

Vox & Effects by Maya Kuroki
Instrumental & Production by Jean Néant

Mastered / Vinyl by Personal Touch

Performed/recorded at La Lumière Collective 2020-2021
except for Bond-Age, recorded & created chez Sarah Pagé in Spring 2019

Illustration by Ivy Kilpstein, from the first performance as a duo on September 23rd 2018

VIS-AGE

IM-AGE

Être Ensemble—an homage to the DIY space Être and a farewell performance there with an improvised band before its closing in 2019—is an umbrella project of Joni Void, an abstracted form/hybrid of collaboration, recordings, remixing, sampling, improvisation, sound editing, etc; essentially, output that sources improvised/jam recordings with friends and/or their own material reshaped into new narratives combined with Joni Void's own processed samples and cinematic atmospheres.

The first half, CLOSE, was originally released via our digital imprint A Red Thread in October 2021. It is a remix/companion of I - L by Madeline Johnston as Mercury Tracer, a collection of electric piano miniatures that was released on tape with Jean’s label Everyday Ago in May that same year.
(heavenmetal.bandcamp.com/album/i-l)

The second half, SPACE, is a more recent offering that is based around/samples all (at the time) 6 releases by the Japanese tape label Babera Records, run by Nozomu Hirano. In February 2022, Babera released Joni Void’s Nostalgie d'une Porte Ouverte and Jean was gifted the Babera back catalog, inspiring the remix/sourcing idea for this second EP.
(baberarecords.bandcamp.com)

CLOSE is about a possessed person, and SPACE is a haunted place. The Joni Void soundtrack to a non-existent surrealist horror film.

Jeanne Moreau + Gymnopédie no.1 d'Erik Satie 
film samples from Le Feu Follet, directed by Louis Malle
La Baie des Anges, directed by Jacques Demy

jeanne

original • https://soundcloud.com/son-lux/enough-of-our-machines

son lux - enough of our machines (johnny_ripper remix)

original • https://soundcloud.com/ohlittlecloud/underwater

little cloud - 水中 (johnny_ripper remix)

Remix of José Lobo's Meteors from the album 'In All Good Hope'
Original produced by MASIYUMA

https://joselobo.bandcamp.com/album/in-all-good-hope-2

ameliorate meteors
in a million constant vows
vocals embraced in a photograph,
There’s drafts in tea leafs//
with thirst for recognition
cursive letters in curbed states
Turn over backwards
thorny roads in a crossover
weeds of idioms and I need to own my words
so lets buy one euro bottles of wine 
were just like birds on a wire
when the morning light hits us in the eye
is a sign we need our coffee to start the day
just when the dawn
embraces the night
let them dance
let them live their own loves
Let them find their own poems
and dog ear their memories
they don't need our loans
they have their own bones
so let's bury our own
and give them our present
we can make ancient connections 
some other time
for now 
I just want to breathe

José Lobo - Meteors (Joni Void Remix)

Original by YlangYlang from the album 'Only By Moonlight'
https://ylangylang.bandcamp.com/album/only-by-moonlight

From the remix compilation 'Never By Daylight'
https://ylangylang.bandcamp.com/album/never-by-daylight-remixes

Full Compilation

YlangYlang - Circuitous (Joni Void Remix)

original • https://lefserecords.bandcamp.com/album/shallow

sea oleena - everyone with eyes closed (johnny_ripper remix)

a cover of Abner Jay, the last ole ministrel man • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xcq0R7Uckg

thank you to @julsy for the acoustic guitar recording that served as a base for this song

lyrics •
i was born
during the old
depression day
oh my lord

in july
in south georgia
where the sun was
hotter than blaze

my folk were
sharecroppers
at the end
of the year
we had nothing
we had nothing
we had nothing
but grasshoppers

looking back
over my life

oh lord i'm so depressed
help me somebody
i need some rest
oh lord
i'm so depressed

every boy
needs a girl
every girl
needs a boy

i'm a boy
so full of love
i've got no one
to hold my hand

tell me
how long
must i wander
tell me
how long
must i cry

will there be someone
someone to wipe
the tears
off my eye
come on baby
rub my head
rub my head
while i lay down
in my bed

kiss me
kiss me baby
till i feel alright
till i feel alright

oh looking back
over my life

oh lord i'm so depressed
help me somebody
i need some rest

i'm so depressed

piano sample from documenteur
a film by agnès varda

a void

FULL BEAT-TAPE

Bien Venue (feat. R.A.P Ferreira)

donnie darko

I made this at the diving station in 1969, whilst opening the mouth, as i could feel the sky looking through my magic window, over the horizon radar. 

(I did this by ear. Some notes may not be correct)



I saw drones (boards of canada cover)

I'm not here

waltz for an imaginary piano

a cover of Tom Waits' I'm Still Here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLB0VEUerBY
sorry about my singing.

You haven't looked at me that way in years
You dreamed me up and left me here
How long was I dreaming for
What was it you wanted me for
You haven't looked at me that way in years
Your watch has stopped and the pond is clear
Someone turn the lights back off
I'll love you til all time is gone
You haven't looked at me that way in years
But I'm still here

i'm still here

boards of canada - seven forty seven (johnny_ripper remix)

goodbye

more fluffy clouds in my head

picture• Desert Visions: Paintings By Eric Lopresti
http://www.buamai.com/image/34838

blue sky

a wonderful guitar cover of two of my songs by http://soundcloud.com/julsy

originals •
https://soundcloud.com/johnny_ripper/in-a-dream 
//
https://soundcloud.com/johnny_ripper/im-not-here

Julsy - in a dream/i'm not here

opening credits

piano by Marie-Noëlle Gondry (i'm sorry Michel, I just had to)

cloudhead

garden

left hand waltz

a love letter to Masaaki Yuasa

95% of this song is music and sounds from the movie Cat Soup.

cat soup

Oh, that is me in the picture. I was about 4/5 years old. I had an imaginary friend, my ride-on toy Thomas The Tank Engine. I was strongly convinced that it was alive. I used to take him everywhere with me, even set up a place for him at the table on a few occasions, try to feed him, give him something to drink. I still have a few clear memories of this. 
Please don't forget who you were as a child.

imaginary friend

house

this is a story of a young man, traveling ancient countrysides, looking for new emotions to experience. 

feat. Rich Medina
my take on http://soundcloud.com/forss/journeyman

Journeyman (Remix of Forss)

feat. Jerry Quickley
twitter.com/jerryquickley

A collaboration that began in October 2019, with a single vocal take recorded by Jerry Quickley, separated in different sections, in which he whispers/repeats "the fires keep coming", spits out rhymes about "sailing flames on paperboats", and in a final bit, acts out a report of "waves of fire" ravaging Los Angeles, engulfing him in his last interrupted line.

Initially planned for a cursed, upcoming experimental-rap/poetry album by Joni Void that includes many other featurings, the instrumental reflects Jerry's vocal intensity and fire imagery with a fury of samples such as the video-game series Doom that is directly referenced, the drumming of Hamid Drake, voices & noises from selected New Japan releases...

With the September 2020 fire outbreaks in California, resulting in many images of California shrouded in doomy Orange skies & surrounded by fiery landscapes, both artists agreed that it would make sense to release their collaborative effort prematurely, having eerily predicted that exact imagery a year prior.

Mastered by Simon Lancelot
www.simonlancelotmastering.com

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Doom mooD (with Jerry Quickley)

they say that dreams are only real as long as they last. couldn't you say the same thing about life? 

in a dream

based around <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7MN7kJ0uy0">a song</a> from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055852/?ref_=sr_1">Cléo de 5 à 7</a>, originally performed by Corinne Marchand.

paroles:
Toutes portes ouvertes
En plein courant d'air
Je suis une maison vide
Sans toi, sans toi

Comme une île déserte
Que recouvre la mer
Mes plages se dévident
Sans toi, sans toi

Belle en pure perte
Nue au cœur de l'hiver
Je suis un corps avide
Sans toi, sans toi

Vivre
Sans toi

Rongée par le cafard
Morte au cercueil de verre
Je me couvre de rides
Sans toi, sans toi

Seule, laide et livide
Sans toi, sans toi
Sans toi

sans toi

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outsider
self-taught
shapeshifter

a paradox
in negative space
living non-linear
since 199X

expire-mental / diy-ing
www.everydayago.cloud

"everyday is the song" • 
on https://soundcloud.com/constellation-records
https://cstrecords.com/products/cst173-joni-void-everyday-is-the-song
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