PASCAL & BAYA RAYS - SONIC JOY (LP)

"The name of the album, Sonic Joy, was inspired by the band's creative process. At their weekly rehearsals, often tired after long working days, the four sit down and start playing pretty much straight away. Without deciding on a direction, the sessions are a sort of musical catching up - you can hear how someone is through their playing. A sonic conversation, a back and forth of expressing, listening and existing in the music, in the groove and vibrations. It conjures up images and ideas and the band always feels energised after rehearsals - "often we leave the studio feeling like it's a new morning.The Odd Funk Records studio the band recorded at has been their rehearsal space for ten years and has provided them a space for analogue mixing experimentation. Often the band records while they play, listens back and mixes on the fly with an old reel-to-reel - enjoying the raw sound, adding tape effects, leaving in scratches and imperfections. The titles were found collaboratively as well, named in the four languages the members speak in their everyday lives, Finnish, French, Fon and English. " (label info)