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A low-pressure psych-rock jam session between Canadian artists Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman produces a few happy accidents and a lot of aimless experimentation.
When Romy Lightman and Yves Jarvisâ voices fall into harmony on âOlamimââthe opening track on
Banned, their first album as the duo Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Bandâthey sound at ease, like theyâre on familiar ground. Which makes sense:
Banned was recorded at the Tree Museum, an outdoor, installation-style gallery spanning 200 acres in Ontario, and neither Jarvis nor Lightman is a stranger to the property. Jarvisâ last solo record,
Sundry Rock Song Stock, was made there; Lightmanâs aunt co-founded the museum. Plus, as romantic partners, nor are the pair strangers to each other.
It goes without saying that 2020 has been a year we’d rather forget an endless feedback loop of disappointment and disaster. It’s further obvious that few have had a more difficult path navigating this mess than the countless number of musicians whose financial and creative livelihoods have been put on an indefinite halt, given their increasing reliance on entertaining large (and preferably jam-packed) gatherings of people.
Yet that isn’t to say these folks have merely gone dormant over the last nine months. Whether adapting to the burgeoning live stream model, shifting their financial focus to physical merchandise, or hunkering down to write and release new music all together, artists across all borders have found new ways to not only get art out into the world for their own sake, but to also provide the rest of us with plenty to cling on to as we sift through our own personal hurdles.