Jonah Yano by Raiden Louie (Download Hi-Res Assets HERE)
"an architect of recollection" Exclaim!
"warm, wistful, and quaint all at once" HYPEBEAST
"'contemplative and comforting" NPR
"His voice lilts with every syllable, making the imagery feel crushing and poignant" Pitchfork
Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop LISTEN: https://lnk.to/theheavyloop
(October 4th, 2024) - Montreal’s Jonah Yano releases his third album, Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop, today via Innovative Leisure. Jonah’s album arrives at the end of a week that saw him share album standout track “Snowpath” featuring Clairo on Monday, and play a marathon 24-hour improvised set with his band in celebration of the album on Tuesday and Wednesday that was live streamed online and open to the public in Toronto at TopTop Studios.
Jonah’s new album, Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop, came together with intimate collaboration in mind, as a departure from his previous two albums - both of which were intimate portraits of his personal and family life. His third album is chock full of fluid improvisation, with each musician in his band bringing their own creative flairs to the sessions to fulfill Jonah’s vision for this record. The band, which first formed as an evolving live ensemble for shows Jonah played in 2022, has collectively grown over the past several years, consisting of: Christopher Edmonson, Benjamin Maclean, Leighton Harrell, Felix Fox-Pappas and Raiden Louie. Jonah remains at the helm as the record’s conductor and central figure, but draws on the strengths and inspirations of each member of the band to craft an album that still dives into personal experience through its tender lyrics, but evolves musically as the band feeds off of one another in the fruitful exchange of ideas in the studio and lively bouts of instrumental flourishes and walls of noise.
Jonah and his band will be playing the album live across Canada in November and December, including shows in Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal before concluding in Toronto on December 6th. See the full run of upcoming live dates below.
Yano is a soulful, genre-agnostic talent, always shifting the unstable ground his songs rest on, revising it, making it anew. Having emigrated to Vancouver from Hiroshima at the age of four, much of Yano’s approach to music is influenced by his own fractured identity as a member of the Japanese-Canadian diaspora, as well as his larger interest in memory, family histories, and the nuances of interpersonal relationships. The result is a soundtrack that defies easy genre categorization and captures the grey area in which we can find the most fruitful experiences life has to teach us while also highlighting Jonah’s expert musical compositional skills. Yano’s band – composed of Raiden Louie (Drums), Chris Edmondson (Saxophone, Clarinet, Synthesizer), Benja (Guitar), Leighton Harrell (Bass) and Felix Fox-Pappas (Piano, Rhodes) -- first came together to record his 2023 single "concentrate" with Clairo.
Listen to Jonah Yano & The Heavy Loop above, find full album details and upcoming tour dates below, and stay tuned for more from Jonah coming very soon.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
11/13 - Victoria, BC @ Capital Ballroom 11/14 - Vancouver, BC @ Fortune Sound Club 11/16 - Calgary, AB @ Commonwealth 11/17 - Edmonton, AB @ Temple 11/19 - Winnipeg, MB @ Sidestage 12/3 - Ottawa, ON @ Club Saw 12/4 - Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa 12/6 - Toronto, ON @ The Garrison | 
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