: ' .. .:.... . ' ' ______________ : ________ : ' \ / .. .:. .. \ / : : \ /_________ \ / . .. ... .. . : .\ / /___ /\ \ / ______________ ___ _. : \ / / \ / \ \/ / \ \ \ \ \ . ...:..\ / _______/ \/ \ ___/__ / / / / / : /\ / / \ \/ \ / / / . sH! ' / \/ / / / \ / / . ... .:.... .. . :/ _______/ / / / _______/__ ___ __ .\ / / / / / / / / / / / \ / / / / / / / / / / / . . \ /\______/ / / / / \___ / / : \/ ____ \ / / / / / : \ / \ /\____/\ / / : : ________\/ \ / \ / / : ' \ / \/ \ /\ / : . ..:.. . \ / \/ \ / \ / \ / . ' : \/ F A N G \ / : ' ____ \ / . . .. .. .:.. . \ / presents \ / . . \/ \/ : : . ..:.. , : Artist......: WHY? : Album.......: AOKOHIO : : Label.......: Joyful Noise Recordings .. .:.. . Genre.......: Indie : Catnr.......: JNR302 . ' Source......: CD , ; Rip.date....: 2019-08-09 Str.date....: 2019-08-09 Quality.....: 255kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo . :.. .:. Url.........: http://whywithaquestionmark.bandcamp.com ' ' , ________ ________ \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / # title time \ / \/ \/ 1. Apogee 1:44 2. The Rash 0:44 3. Peel Free 4:43 4. Reason 1:40 5. Deleterio Motilis 1:51 6. Stained Glass Slipper 2:23 7. The Launch 1:08 8. High Dive 1:24 9. Mr. Fifths' Plea 0:45 10. Good Fire 1:21 11. Narcissistic Lamentation 0:41 12. Krevin' 1:32 13. The Crippled Physician 2:54 14. Ustekinumab 0:31 15. My Original 0:30 16. Rock Candy 2:18 17. Once Shy 1:07 18. The Shame 0:35 19. Bloom Wither Bloom (for Mom) 4:10 ______ \ / ________ Runtime 32:01 ,\ /... . . .... .... \ / ' Size 62.72 ______ :\/ ', \ / , \ / ' '... ..\ /.. .. .....:. .. .... .. . ..\ /. : Release Notes: \/ , \/ , ' ' ,: Yoni Wolf has spent the last two decades traveling the remote :, : sonic terrain where underground hip hop, avant-pop, and : :' psych-rock meet. Some of YoniÆs most compelling and ': ,: critically-praised musical experiments have been issued under :, : the moniker WHY? and his latest entry is no exception. On : :' AOKOHIO Yoni condenses the essential elements of WHY? into a ': ,: stunningly potent musical vision. :, : : :' Co-produced by Yoni and his brother Josiah, AOKOHIO presents a ': ,: rich palette of musical voices that emerge and disappear into a :, : constantly shifting kaleidoscope of sound. ôI wanted a wide : :' variety of sounds. I didn't want this album to sit in one sonic ': ,: zone. I've always felt like too jagged of a person to be smooth :, : in that way,ö Yoni says. While the album features many notable : :' guest contributors, from Lala LalaÆs Lillie West, to Nick ': ,: Sanborn and Amelia Meath of Sylvan Esso, the listenerÆs :, : attention remains squarely directed on YoniÆs voice and vision. : :' ': ,: AOKOHIO finds Yoni rethinking fundamental aspects of his :, : approach to creating and delivering his music. The album is : :' presented as six movements comprised of two to four songs each, ': ,: with some segments appearing as brief fragments that dissolve :, : within seconds. : :' ': ,: ôWhen I started this project, I decided I needed to try a new :, : approach in creating music and how I work,ö Yoni reflects. ôI : :' wasn't feeling the idea of going back in and making another ten ': ,: or twelve song album. It felt arduous. It felt like too much. So :, : I wanted to pare the process down and make it manageable. I : :' thought, 'Why don't I make small five or six minute movements ': ,: and finish up each movement before I move on to the next.' :, : That's how I started approaching it. The whole process took over : :' five years, I'd start working on something and set it aside for ': ,: awhile. The earliest songs on this album started in 2013.ô :, : : :' As Yoni reimagined his approach to creating music, he also ': ,: began thinking of new ways to share the music with his audience. :, : ôI initially wanted to release the music as I progressed through : :' the project,ö Yoni says. ôWhen I finished a movement I wanted ': ,: to put it up digitally on Bandcamp or Soundcloud. I just wanted :, : to make little pieces of music and put them out there. But I had : :' a call with my manager and the label and they said, 'We can ': ,: release stuff through time like that, but we want to do it :, : properly.' So the idea of the project changed after that, but it : :' retained the integrity of working in movements. It's definitely ': ,: a very different way of working for me. I think it has yielded :, : some interesting results.ö : :' ': ,: The concept of sharing AOKOHIO in segments over time has been :, : preserved with the release of an accompanying visual album. ôI : :' think it's a very artful way of putting the music out there,ö ': ,: Yoni explains. ôIt's like a television series, it's revealing :, : itself slowly over time. I think it's cool that the audience : :' gets to hear it one piece at a time, and has to wait and digest ': ,: each piece before they get the next one.ö :, : : :' ôI knew early on that I wanted that visual element for this ': ,: album,ö Yoni recalls. ôMy brother and I have worked on video :, : stuff our whole lives. Our dad had video equipment since we were : :' little kids, he had an editing suite in our basement. We ': ,: weren't rich, we were actually fairly poor, but somehow he'd :, : gotten ahold of these video editing decks and cameras. Even : :' though my brother and I had dabbled in video as kids, it's not ': ,: what we do for a living. So we wanted to find someone, and :, : fucking randomly a guy messaged me on Instagram and was like, : :' 'Hey, I like your music and I'd love to work with you.' I ': ,: looked at his work and I was like, 'This guy is for real!' ô :, : : :' The author of that fateful Instagram message was Sundance ': ,: award-winning director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte. ôMiles directed :, : the first three segments of the visual album and is the : :' mastermind of the overarching video project,ö Yoni explains. ': ,: Joris-PeyrafitteÆs visuals cut contemporary footage of Yoni and :, : actress Tatiana Maslany with vintage home videos documenting : :' YoniÆs childhood life in Cincinnati. ItÆs a fitting ': ,: juxtaposition, as YoniÆs lyrics on AOKOHIO seem to question how :, : memory, history, and place shape our anxieties and sense of : :' self. ôI moved back to Cincinnati after living in the Bay Area ': ,: for over a decade,ö Yoni says. ôThis album is very much me :, : thinking about my mom and dad, and my siblings.ö : :' ': ,: YoniÆs return to his Ohio hometown brought on a period of :, : critical self-reflection. ôIs there a word for bad nostalgia?ö : :' Yoni asks. ôWhen I think of the word nostalgia, it seems like ': ,: pleasant feelings and all that, but this is not really like :, : that. It's more about reflecting on the anxieties I've had since : :' I was born. Why are they there? Is this epigenetics? Is that ': ,: shit just inside of me because of the Holocaust and my relatives :, : back then? What am I really? Why do I operate in these ways?ö : :' ': ,: Ultimately AOKOHIO sees Yoni pushing to find meaning and peace :, : of mind in the moment, even if itÆs not exactly where he wants : :' to be. ôThe title is sarcastic I guess,ö Yoni offers. ôBut it's ': ,: also wishful. A lot of my album titles have been names of :, : maladies, like Alopecia and Mumps, Etc. I don't want to project : :' that into the world. You know, æA-OK Ohio, I'm here and it's ': ,: fine.Æ It's like a mantra, æA-OK Ohio, I'm here and it's OK.Æ :, : Even though in reality, everyday I'm like, 'I've got to get the : :' hell out of Ohio.'ô ': ,: :, : AOKOHIO feels like a consequential addition to the WHY? catalog, : :' possibly even an artistic turning point. But its creator ': ,: remains circumspect when asked to comment on the albumÆs :, : significance within his discography, instead preferring to : :' characterize the work as the latest iteration of his deep ': ,: commitment to his artistic practice. ôI have no idea if this :, : record is good or not,ö Yoni says. ôBut I never really know. I : :' know that I've never written a song that's indispensable to the ': ,: American songbook. But in terms of what it is, it's a piece of :, : art. I put blood, sweat, and tears into this album, and : :' struggled through the creative process as I always do. As far ': ,: as where this sits with the rest of my albums? I can't answer :, : that. I just know that my career is a lifelong career, and IÆm : :' working it. 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