Release Date: 15 May 2020
Label: Innl / Innovative Leisure
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 810874023759
Genres: Rock Alternative
Release Date: 15 May 2020
Label: Innl / Innovative Leisure
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 810874023742
Genres: Rock Alternative
Description
Meet Jonah Yano, the Toronto based singer, songwriter, whose journey into music began with recording music using his cellphone in 2016. Having played piano and guitar as a child, it wasn't until Yano moved from Vancouver to Toronto in 2016 that he began putting his songs online, catching the eyes of Toronto's thriving local music scene. Spending the next couple of years obsessively songwriting and practicing vocals, and learning technical skills, he collaborated with Toronto duo MONEYPHONE on the 2018 song "On Lock" which became an underground success.
Shortly after, Yano released his first solo single “Rolex, the Ocean'' with producer Joseph L'etranger. Once he began writing his full EP, he was introduced to frequent collaborators BADBADNOTGOOD, who are featured on the EP's title track, "Nervous". Yano's work has garnered praise in major music publications like The Fader, Billboard, Complex, and Exclaim and the attention of Virgil Abloh and Gilles Peterson along with millions of streams on Spotify and Apple Music. Most recently, Yano released a highly praised cover of the Majestica's "Key To Love (Is Understanding)" also with BADBADNOTGOOD, finding himself in the natural position of writing the feature length album, 2020's souvenir.
Following a highly acclaimed 2019 which included the release of an EP nervous, collaborations with BADBADNOTGOOD, MONEYPHONE, and Nono; industry praise from The Fader, Billboard, High Snobiety, NME, KCRW and Exclaim it's not a stretch to say Jonah Yano's highly anticipated debut feature album souvenir took a lifetime to make.Yano's souvenir, mixes his soulful, genre blurring vocals with searing, personal lyrics. With collaborations from talents like BADBADNOTGOOD, Monsune and Jacques Greene, souvenir touches on themes of family separation, healing, and reconciling with the past.With each track delving into Yano's personal history, the album tells the story of his parents separation and absence of his father from his life through the perspective of each of his family members.
Description
In the wake of the release of 2017's Savage Times, Hanni El Khatib found himself wracked by depression and anxiety. It became readily apparent that if Khatib didn't make drastic changes to his lifestyle, there might not be a life to speak of. So he quit drinking, stopped touring, and took an indefinite hiatus from the studio. What would eventually become Khatib's fifth studio album (FLIGHT coming May 15th), began as a spontaneous experimentation. Over the last several years, Khatib had become close friends with Leon Michels, best known as the mastermind of the soul controllers, the El Michels Affair, but who has also quietly racked up producer credits for the likes of pop juggernauts Travis Scott, Lana Del Rey, Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, and Eminem -- as well as frequently working in sessions with Grammy-winning super-producer Mark Ronson.At first, their jams were intended as riffs and breaks for other producers to sample, but quickly, Khatib decided to say fuck the middleman. Why create samples, when they could create the entire beat themselves? The process unfolded casually and organically into recording an album in upstate New York. The finished result is a rollicking sampledelic opus that recalls the beautiful chaos that the Dust Brothers created on Paul's Boutique and Odelay. It's the type of thing that Dilla and Madlib would've created if they had come up on The Cramps. It is garage rock, it is hip-hop, it is soul, it is blues, it is psychedelic. And yes, the debut single 'STRESSY' has a ghostride the whip reference because you can take the artist out of the Bay but.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
BADBADNOTGOOD
Allah-Las
Holy Fuck
Mapache
Sam Blasucci
Jonah Yano
Claude Fontaine
Maria Chiara Argiro
Hanni El Khatib
Hanni El Khatib
Hanni El Khatib
Hanni El Khatib
Hanni El Khatib
