Selfless, by joni void

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Soft Seas Profound in a mysterious and ethereal sort of way, like a dream almost. Joni is an avant-garde musical genius, or perhaps this is just the mental image I've invented of him.

Elizabeth Rothwell I don't really have a favourite, I love all the album. I think the words are clever, they make me smile, like Jane Austen or Dickens can put a smile on my face. The seemingly spontaneous music bizarrely seems "spot on", it's quirky and a little eccentric yet somehow oddly melodic, enough said, listen it's a treat Favorite track: Observer (Natalie's Song).

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1.	Song Siènne 05:40		buy track
2.	Observer (Natalie's Song) 03:26		buy track
3.	Doppler 02:00		buy track
4.	Empathy (Ayuko's Song) 04:08		buy track
5.	Aesthetics of Disappearance 04:05		buy track
6.	Désolé (Pardon the Interruption) 01:00		buy track
7.	Cinema Without People 04:45		buy track
8.	Yung Werther (Ogun's Song) 05:40		buy track
9.	Abjection 04:29		buy track
10.	Disassociation (Ky's Song) 05:02	info	buy track
11.	Agnosia 04:50		buy track
12.	Deaf (No More Songs) 01:00		buy track

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Joni Void is the newly minted pseudonym of producer Jean Cousin – known until now in the Soundcloud, Bandcamp and other online communities as johnny_ripper. A self-taught musician making tracks since he was 14 years old and living in Lille, France, Cousin moved to Montréal in 2012 to pursue Film Studies. He plunged into the city’s fertile DIY/loft scene and in a spirited transformation, evolved from cloistered bedroom/virtual persona to highly engaged organizer and performer. Cousin has self-released a cavalcade of original albums and remixes since 2011; Selfless is his debut release on a record label.

Cousin’s earliest records, made as a teenager, combine piano and field recordings, inspired by the film soundtracks of Jon Brion, Philip Glass and Yann Tiersen and the sample worlds as Boards Of Canada, The Books, Four Tet and Burial. An increasing obsession with micro-sampling, aleatory composition, history of cinema and the techniques of foley and film sound editing – along with an increasingly active practice of remixing and beat-making – has seen Cousin’s music flourish in fascinating ways. Perhaps most importantly, Cousin now constructs his tracks entirely from found sources and aims not to ‘play’ anything at all. His personal hero Delia Derbyshire (White Noise; the early years of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop) cemented his commitment to making musique concrète avant-pop inspired by these analog tape-based pioneers (albeit now utilising today’s more accessible digital tools).

Selfless is an exploration of catharsis and the escape from entrapments of subjectivity and solipsism, guided by Cousin’s renunciation of any ‘original’ playing or recording of his own, while celebrating intimate community and inter-subjectivity through solicitation of private voice recordings from close friends: Natalie Reid recites her own poem on the hypnotic “Observer (Natalie’s Song)”; Ogun Afariogun (aka Tide Jewel) contributed a freestyle rap recorded and sent by phone on “Yung Wether (Ogun’s Song)”; Ayuko Goto (aka Noah) provided a sound file of whispers for “Empathy (Ayuko’s Song)”; “Dissociation (Kyla’s Song)” is entirely constructed of vocals by Kyla Brooks (aka Nag). The rest of the album’s 12 songs explore a gamut of strategies ranging from the textural, beatless, Satie-inflected opener “Song Siènne” to the pulsing ambient-industrial techno of “Cinema Without People” and “Abjection”, and the kinetic, deconstructed IDM-electronica of “Aesthetics Of Disappearance” and “Agnosia”.

Selfless is chock full of stand-out tracks that work in isolation but also make for a wonderfully complex, coherent and compelling album of experimental plunderphonics. Joni Void presents a debut album that balances the freeform spirit of sampledelica with the conceptual, emotive and stylistic specificity of individual songcraft, to glorious effect.

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released May 5, 2017

Constructed and assembled by Jean Cousin

Mastered by Ryan Morey at Ryebread
Artwork by Jean Cousin & Ian Ilavsky, with images found through nemfrog.tumblr.com

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