"Experimentation is par for the course with Yves Jarvis. He plays all the instruments on his recordings and takes inspiration from funk, folk, and psych alike. So it's no surprise that the Calgary-based musicianborn Jean-Sebastien Yves Audettried a host of different things with his latest album, All Cylinders, which released earlier this year. But despite the disparate elements, it feels entirely his own, suffused with his established language and phrasing."
"An appreciation of music was entwined with Jarvis's adolescence. Though his parents never played any instruments, they were music-obsessed, taking him to concerts since he was three-months-old. And while Jarvis claims he isn't technically inclinedthere are some riffs on this album that beg to differit was his parents who put him in jazz, classical, and theory courses at The National Conservatory of Music. My theory background comes from piano, but my instrumental breakthrough was blues guitar, he says."
Yves Jarvis plays all instruments and blends funk, folk, and psych into a personal sonic language on the album All Cylinders. Musical appreciation began in early childhood as parents immersed him in concerts and enrolled him in piano, jazz, classical, and theory courses at The National Conservatory of Music. Instrumental breakthrough came through blues guitar and busking during family travel. Local collaborations with Chris Dadge and Shawn Dicey taught recording techniques and fostered a close-knit Calgary scene. Composition often emerges spontaneously, with Jarvis frequently writing on the road and recording improvised material that retains conceptual cohesion.
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