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MUUIXX

by JOYFULTALK

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition black 180-gram LP with stamped label and hand-screened CMYK jacket on uncoated stock. Postcard with unique download code included.

    Includes unlimited streaming of MUUIXX via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    edition of 200 

      $18 CAD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    4-panel full-colour digipack on glossy stock

    Includes unlimited streaming of MUUIXX via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $12 CAD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $5 CAD  or more

     

  • Poster/Print + Digital Album

    4.75" x 6.75" black and white postcard printed double-sided on 130lb thick uncoated stock.

    Includes unlimited streaming of MUUIXX via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $5 CAD or more 

     

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Cargo Face 00:51
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Gym Class 05:32
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Crousetooth 00:38
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Pommel Horse 05:16
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Earth Heist 02:14

about

For all its experimental underpinning, MUUIXX strikes an incredible balance between playful textures, backdoor pop sensibilities and serious structural integrity. JOYFULTALK's (Jay Crocker) homebuilt instruments and analogue treatment imbue the nine tracks with a wide range of sensations, recalling a myriad pioneers: the heavy patchwork of Cluster, the micro exoticism of early RZA, even the fraught insistence of Derek Bailey. But reference aside, MUUIXX has a motion all it's own; a peculiar kind of ticking that threads itself along. Diligently scored, performed and recorded by Jay Crocker with a set of fourteen custom built instruments at his home studio in Crousetown, Nova Scotia, MUUIXX functions as a vibrant, oversized diorama of its creator's mind, an evocative scene that could be designed by no other.

JOYFULTALK is the most recent brainchild of Canadian composer Jay Crocker (Ghostkeeper, No More Shapes), JOYFULTALK is a curious dialogue modified to make a little universe of itself; wordless rivers of
analogue tongue, glitching fields of electric grass, an orbit of junked vocabulary. Originally based in Calgary, Jay Crocker has spent the better part of his lifetime creating inimitable music with groups such as the jazz-inflected No More Shapes and the Polaris-nominated avant-blues outfit Ghostkeeper. He's also had a substantial career under his own name in a number of incarnations, be it touring a ten-piece neo-classical pop band, or playing a decade's worth of experimental sets as a part of Calgary's noise and improv scene.

JOYFULTALK is Crocker's most singular, inventive and exciting project to date. An opus of sorts, MUUIXX, marks the emergence of a new voice from one of Canada's most fearless and beloved musicians.

credits

released June 30, 2015

Composed, performed, and recorded by Jay Crocker at The Prism Ship in Crousetown, Nova Scotia.

Mastered by Jesse Zubot at The Britannia Beach Bunker

Artwork by Will Vandermeulen

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JOYFULTALK Crousetown, Nova Scotia

Constellation Records

micro-climate trance

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