Canadian musician Yves Jarvis has launched a deluxe version of his Polaris Prize–profitable album ‘All Cylinders’.
MILES PARKS, HOST:
Canadian musician Yves Jarvis not too long ago launched a deluxe model of his critically acclaimed album “All Cylinders.” The album received this 12 months’s coveted Polaris Prize, awarded to one of the best Canadian album of the 12 months. Jarvis was the one individual featured on the album. He produced it, wrote it, and he performed each single instrument, and we not too long ago caught up with him.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “ALL CYLINDERS”)
YVES JARVIS: (Singing) Moon carry on shining and spreading good tidings.
My journey for this document was, like, making an attempt to write down songs, making an attempt to make preparations, making an attempt to make hooks. However often I am considering extra symbolically, and, like, I am considering when it comes to, like, mild. And that is sort of what began it and what drove it thematically, like, metallic and light-weight on metallic and iridescent high quality that I used to be making an attempt to seize.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “ALL CYLINDERS”)
JARVIS: (Singing) I rush to succeed in you earlier than its too late, firing all cylinders of this V8.
The music that was fascinating me after I made the document was very a lot about storytelling, and it was very character-driven. And I used to be simply listening to people who had been, like, taking me on a journey, like, thematically, that was thrilling to me. That was, like, a brand new frontier.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “GOLD FILIGREE”)
JARVIS: (Singing) Typically that you must eat. Reserve us one of the best two seats.
“Gold Filigree” – it is one of many first tracks I recorded when the album was actually coming collectively. It got here out of only a patchwork of percussion, as a number of my stuff does. However I really like to begin with percussion.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “GOLD FILIGREE”)
JARVIS: (Singing) She had on gold filigree. Ooh, they’ve an ideal routine. Whoa, I wager you’d agree.
I had the phrase gold filigree in my head. Yeah, simply this metalwork. I believe it was simply fully emblematic of what I am making an attempt to do musically. And so it turned the imagery of the track and I believe broadly the imagery of the document. And simply sonically, it is obtained this sheen.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “GOLD FILIGREE”)
JARVIS: (Singing) I would not consider that you may deceive and simply depart with out saying so lengthy.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “MAN IN HIS POMP”)
JARVIS: (Singing) My associates all say, higher go get myself set straight earlier than that clock runs out. Higher cease messing about.
“Man In His Pomp” – I took it out of the Bible. It was someplace in Scripture, and I used to be like, that feels like an excellent track. The track is about how degenerate the artwork life is and simply in any respect ranges. It is like, do not let anyone inform you in any other case. And I say it within the track. I say that is me.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “MAN IN HIS POMP”)
JARVIS: (Singing) Man in his pomp, man in his pomp, man in his pomp is me.
Play is such a giant a part of artwork. It is very very like being a baby. I really feel like there’s, you realize, so many nice points of that. However then additionally it is like, I really feel very indifferent from well mannered society, as an example. And “Man In His Pomp” is actually about that.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “WITH A GRAIN”)
JARVIS: (Singing) The whole lot I say, take it with the grain. Ever because the begin, I have been pricked in coronary heart.
My favourite one is “With A Grain.” It is, like, the primary and final thing I did for the document. So it is like, the drums had been recorded – I used to be, like, in Montreal, again in Montreal, and I used to be like, I do know that I am making this document. I do not know what I am making. I haven’t got songs, no matter. And I went into my pal’s studio and simply recorded drums, added some stuff to that and sat on it for, like, principally two years and would simply pile issues on after which erase all of it and began with the bass after which the guitars. I used to be experimenting with my tone, making an attempt to make it sound like violin.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “WITH A GRAIN”)
JARVIS: (Singing) By means of the darkish of evening, you wager your life. Look who tore a gap in your camisole. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Simply at all times working from that drum recording – and the in the future that it clicked was like – it is simply what it is all about for me.
PARKS: That was singer, songwriter and producer Yves Jarvis. His album, “All Cylinders,” is out now. And you’ve got been listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR Information. I am Miles Parks. Thanks a lot for listening, and we’ll do it once more tomorrow.
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