The legendary band's first album in 13 years, available on Joyful Noise Recordings

Overjoyed

After one year of Covid, we highlight the songs our artists have created during quarantine. Featuring new tracks from Deerhoof, Ohmme, Kishi Bashi & El Ten Eleven, plus an interview & music from the infamous Rob Crow (Pinback, Goblin Cock, Optiganally Yours, Thingy, Anal Trump, etc.).

Hosted by Karl Hofstetter, founder and curator of Joyful Noise Recordings.

Background music by Dumb Numbers, Joan of Arc, and Thor & Friends.

Intro by David Woodruff, featuring music by El Ten Eleven.

For more, visit joyfulnoiserecordings.com

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Half Japanese - The Time Is Now

Half Japanese - Do It Nation

Half Japanese - Brave Enough

Half Japanese - Meant To Be That Way

The legendary band's first album in 13 years, available on Joyful Noise Recordings.

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One of the most influential bands in rock history, Half Japanese was founded in the bedroom of brothers Jad and David Fair in 1974. Ignoring musical conventions like chords, rhythms, melody, and song structure, the brothers pioneered DIY and Lo-Fi punk aesthetics simply by being themselves. Passionate, fearless, and relentlessly unique, they self-recorded and self-released by mailing out cassettes with handmade packaging, pressing their own vinyl, and brazenly marketing their music with bizarre magazine ads. This unbridled enthusiasm for the act of creating rock music led them to record dozens of amazing records (including the classic albums "1/2 Gentleman/Not Beasts" and "Charmed Life"), and to inevitably influence countless artists such as Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Cobain, and many many more.

Their first album in 13 years, "Overjoyed", shows the band's aggressiveness as well as its friendly charisma. Produced by John Dieterich of Deerhoof, the 12 songs on "Overjoyed" are unlike anything in the bands catalog, each unapologetically positive and surprisingly accessible. "Overjoyed" contains a deep purity, exceptionally rare amongst "reunion albums". They neither attempt to recreate their old sound, nor are they aware of current musical trends and conventions.  As a result they sidestep common pitfalls and create something new, interesting, and needed.

The first single and opening track is "In Its Pull". The song struts with confidence and exemplifies the magical in-the-moment glee that Half Japanese exudes. It pumps out a straightforward yet enticingly erratic rock pulse that paves the way for the rest of the album.   


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Half Japanese - In Its Pull

From the full length album "Overjoyed" out September 2, 2014. 
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Half Japanese - Our Love

From the album Freedays, released by Joyful Noise Recordings, 2/17/17.

To say that Mike Savino is an innovator would be an understatement. Touring under the moniker Tall Tall Trees, the banjo-wielding bard has reshaped the landscape of what is possible with the instrument. On stage and in studio, Savino breaks down the banjo into its most basic iteration, reminding audiences that the banjo is, at root, a drum. Coupled with his mastery of electronic effects, loops, toy ray guns, and heaps of spontaneous creativity, Tall Tall Trees has been encapsulating audience members worldwide with his mystifying solo shows, as well as playing alongside fellow innovator Kishi Bashi.  

His latest album Freedays is, in a way, his debut album. Having recorded two previous albums in a traditional collaborative band setting, Freedays is the first album Savino wrote and recorded as a solo project. Beginning in 2015, Savino took a much-needed respite from New York City, where he had spent a decade and a half honing his craft, and assumed the role of sole caretaker at an abandoned health retreat nestled in the green mountains of northern Georgia. The Bird’s Nest, as it was called, completely surrounded by national forest, provided the freedom and space to work without time constraints or interruption. 

Composed and recorded over a period of eight months, Freedays tells the story of a man in transition and documents an artist alone at the crossroads of the life he has and the one he wants. The album begins with “Backroads”, which drops the listener into a darkened forest amidst a chorus of wailing coyotes and quickly takes off on a midnight drive. Tracks like “Being There”, “A Place to Call Your Own”, and “CLC” provide an honest look into the author’s thought process and decision making. Although it’s often hard to imagine, most of the sounds on the album are experiments with the banjo, and they all reflect the innovative musings of one of the freshest sounds to come out of the Appalachians in decades.

Purchase 'Freedays' here: http://joyfulnoi.se/Freedays

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Tall Tall Trees - Backroads

From the album "Moh Lhean", released on Joyful Noise Recordings 3/3/17.
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Tickets at http://www.mohlhean.com

WHY? - This Ole King

"He's Got The Whole This Land Is Your Land In His Hands" releases on Joyful Noise Recordings January 20th, 2017.

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He's Got The Whole This Land Is Your Land in His Hands

Joan Of Arc - Full Moon And Rainbo Repair

Psychic Temple - Turn Off The Lights

In 1970, Southern soul music maverick Jerry Williams, Jr. made the most radical move of his career. Frustrated with music business politics Williams reinvented himself as Swamp Dogg, an irreverent anti-hero smashing the conventions of commercial R&B music. Swamp Dogg’s debut release Total Destruction to Your Mind featured a post-apocalyptic take on the Muscle Shoals’ sound, with lyrics inspired by the revolutionary politics and psychedelic drugs of the late ‘60s. The music on Total Destruction to Your Mind stood worlds apart from the formulaic pop tunes Williams started cutting in 1954 under the name Little Jerry, and Swamp Dogg hasn’t looked back since. 

But the music business wasn’t ready for Swamp Dogg, nor was the rest of America. His bizarre album titles and wild cover art turned the average consumer off, while his subversive lyrics earned him a spot on Richard Nixon’s infamous enemies list. Swamp Dogg was not deterred. He seemed to relish operating from the margins of the music business, consequently becoming one of the quintessential outsider figures in American music. 

Now, nearly fifty years after his debut release, Swamp Dogg stands on the precipice of another radical reinvention. His latest creation, Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune, is a nine song collection featuring production by Poliça’s Ryan Olson, and finds Swamp Dogg’s bluesy southern soul colliding head-on with 21st Century electronic music production techniques.

Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune

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I'll Pretend

This is an unauthorized mashup of Alan Watts' "Do You Do It or Does It Do You?" and Sigur Rós "Liminal Sleep". Best experienced while sleeping or in an altered state of consciousness.

The Pattern (Alan Watts & Sigur Rós)

Featuring new and unreleased tracks from Joyful Noise Recordings, plus a candid and philosophical interview with Tim Kinsella. 

Songs from: Sleep Party People, Swamp Dogg, jess joy, Danielson, Kishi Bashi, Dale Crover, Anal Trump, Alan Watts & Sigur Rós, Big Business, and Joan of Arc. 

Background music by El Ten Eleven, Joan of Arc, and Dale Crover. 

For more, visit joyfulnoiserecordings.com

Joyful Noise Radio Hour - Episode 1, with Tim Kinsella

Featuring new and unreleased tracks from Joyful Noise Recordings, plus an interview with our artist and friend Dale Crover (aka, legendary drummer of the Melvins, Nirvana, Redd Kross, etc.). 

Songs from: Paul Leary, Serengeti, The Ophelias, Dumb Numbers, Joshua Virtue, Toshi Kasai, Dale Crover, and Melvins. 

Intro by David Woodruff, featuring music by El Ten Eleven.

Background music by El Ten Eleven, Joan of Arc, and Thor & Friends. 

For more, visit joyfulnoiserecordings.com

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