Yves Jarvis releases video for “Projection”

Yves Jarvis, the Montreal-based singer-songwriter and producer has shared the soft yet swirling new song “Projection.” The new video for “Projection” was filmed on an iPhone, then printed out frame by frame, and then carefully scanned each shot to create a magnificent flipbook effect. “Projection” includes lyrics in both English and French. The song is a “rickety rejection of dogma, tumbling tenaciously toward the tip” Jarvis explains.

At the end of 2020, Jarvis released his third album, Sundry Rock Song Stock. The album fuses genre elements into a symbiotic relationship where wistful folk, tender R&B, pastoral prog, and musique concrète experiments feed into one another to grow lush new forms. Though he maintains an air of mystery with his lyrics, Jarvis’s whisper-soft words can be interpreted as both deeply personal and politically motivated in ways we haven’t heard from him before.

As a pre-teen street corner busker, some of Jarvis’ earliest performances took place outside. He returned to an open-air environment for Sundry Rock Song Stock’s creation, setting up a makeshift studio to lay down its foundation of guitar, Nord synth, and Rhodes electric piano. Recording on a reel-to-reel tape machine, Jarvis experimented with various off-kilter techniques including a softly tapped steel drum drenched in effects, or melodies played on a wine glass meant to mimic a flute. 

“I want my recordings to be naturalist, so from that sense I am ideally making them outside” says Jarvis. “More than a musician or a singer, I’m a producer, and any studio I’m in will become my bedroom. Creation is my life and I don’t compartmentalize it at all.”

You can see the video for the new song “Projection” right here. Check out Sundry Rock Song Stock here.

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