J.P. Shilo's new album 'Jubjoté'
- By HOT PANTS
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- 19 Apr, 2021
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via Heavy Machinery Records
Pre-order vinyl here ~ jpshilo.bandcamp.com/album/jubjot
In 2018, the City of Melbourne commissioned J.P. Shilo to compose a new work for the Melbourne Town Hall Grand Organ. With almost 10,000 pipes, it is the largest of its kind in the Southern hemisphere, and Shilo deftly employs it to its full capacity. In his most epic work to date, Shilo explores both the intricate and delicate, to the full majestic grandeur of “all stops out” as we can hear in the Overture – Mélodie de la Maladie.
Born out of an actual dream Shilo had some years earlier, the story of Jubjoté reads alarmingly like a prophetic Omen of sorts; chillingly pertinent to our current Global crisis.
The accompanying film shot on location by L.J.Spruyt Photography along with footage from the World Premiere on November 8th, 2018, is interwoven with underwater imagery by marine cinematographer, Julia Sumerling. This album is a live recording of the concert.
From the very outset, the hallucinatory mood of J.P. Shilo’s oneiric piece Jubjoté lures us into a solipsistic dreamworld. Spiralling ever down the Mesmeric auditory illusion of the Shepard Tone (a musical barber pole of sorts), lulled by the thrum we find ourselves drawn deep into a lucid, hypnotic state in between realms.
Our somnambulist protagonist awakes to find themselves inside the shell of an abandoned building surrounded by a faceless death squad whose mission only is to evict all of the occupants by force.
Frantically traversing the Escher-like staircases, scanning all the floors in search of an Escape, it is only when our exhausted prisoner finally collapses in fear and frustration, abandoning all hope of ever finding freedom from this fortress, that he unwittingly finds salvation, the Exit! – and soars through the sortie in Satori.
But how?
{jub’-jo-té} verbe
“émerger d'un rêve sans savoir la fin et tenter d'y retourner pour connaître la suite”
“to emerge from a dream without knowing how it ends and trying to return to find out how it does.”
J.P. Shilo is no stranger to conjuring potent musical atmospheres, first appearing in the late ‘90s with his instrumental group Hungry Ghosts, he quickly captured the attention of the Late Rowland S. Howard and Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth. His unique and skilful approach has led to him being a highly sought-after multi-instrumentalist, producer & award winning screen composer. Working closely alongside Kasimir Burgess, on his film “Lily”- the production went on to win a Crystal Bear at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.
Around this time, as well as creating the soundtrack, Shilo also lent his voice & narration skills to Richard Lowenstein’s biopic “Autoluminescent” at the request of Rowland S. Howard – reading excerpts from Howard’s unpublished novel “Etceteracide”.
He has spent the last decade helping to create the sounds for such luminaries as Mick Harvey, Rowland S. Howard, The Blackeyed Susans, Adalita and also his very own Hungry Ghosts.
ORLEANS > https://bit.ly/2rInFwP
PARIS > https://bit.ly/2Z4x4uQ
RENNES > https://bit.ly/2PQEPBN
LONDON > https://bit.ly/2DXvj9c
Mick Harvey has announced a tour throughout October and November 2019 with dates split into two separate and very special performances: The Songs of Serge Gainsbourg and a double bill with close collaborator J.P. Shilo which will see Harvey perform songs from across his solo albums.
The Songs of Serge Gainsbourg dates, which start in France, will feature Mick Harvey, J.P. Shilo, Xanthe Waite, James Johnston, Toby Dammit and Yoyo Röhm performing Harvey’s interpretations from across four album releases which saw Harvey translating the work of Gainsbourg, starting in 1995 with Intoxicated Man through to Intoxicated Women (2017).
At the end of October (with three UK shows in Newcastle, London and Glasgow) Mick Harvey will present songs from his four solo albums, One Man’s Treasure (2005), Two of Diamonds (2007), Sketches from the Book of the Dead (2011) and Four (2013).
For this section of the tour, the former Bad Seed will join forces on a double bill with his close collaborator J.P. Shilo (Hungry Ghosts / Rowland S. Howard / The Blackeyed Susans) and a band including Glenn Lewis (Cambodian Space Project) on bass and Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) on drums. Shilo will be performing material from his new album Invisible You due for European release in October while Harvey will take the opportunity to include selections from the recent album The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War , his collaboration with Christopher Richard Barker (Mute, 2018).
One Man’s Treasure and Two of Diamonds will be released on vinyl for the first time in November 2019.
MICK HARVEY 2019 TOUR
SONGS OF SERGE GAINSBOURG
18 October - FR, Alençon La Luciole **
21 October - FR, Rouen Le 106 **
23 October - RU, St Petersburg Morze **
24 October - RU, Moscow Dom Kino **
26 October - PL, Lodz Sound Edit Festival **
2 November - PT, Porto Casa da Musica **
3 November - PT, Lisbon Lisboa Ao Vivo **
SOLO / with J.P. SHILO
27 October - CZ, Brno Mersey Club *
28 October - DE, Frankfurt Club Nachleben *
29 October - BU, Sofia Mixtape 5 *
31 October - IT, Fiorano Modenese Teatro Astoria *
4 November - UK, Newcastle The Cluny *
6 November - UK, London 100 Club *
7 November - UK, Glasgow Broadcast *
9 November - SI, Kranj Layerjeva Hiša *
10 November - HR, Zagreb Vintage industrial Bar *
11 November - SP, Belgrade
KC Grad
*
12 November - GR, Athens TBA *
13 November - GR, Ioannina TBA
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15 November - FR Paris
Les Trois Baudets *
16 November - NL Haarlem Patronaat *
* Mick Harvey and J.P. Shilo
** The Songs of Serge Gainsbourg
RECENT PRAISE FOR THE FALL AND RISE OF EDGAR BOURCHIER
“Undeniably esoteric but the adventurous will be rewarded” – Q magazine
“… a compelling listen” – Soundblab
“... a series of truly brilliant songs that equate with [Harvey’s] best material.”- Allmusic
Listen to the album: http://smarturl.it/MH-CRB
