Low Key Companion

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1.	Backyard At Bug Harbor 06:02	buy track
2.	Sundown Glosson 02:09	buy track
3.	Taco Ma Park 06:02	buy track
4.	Ode To Oaf Loaf 02:38	buy track
5.	Illusion Of Separation 02:37	buy track
6.	Atonement Zen Blues 02:25	buy track
7.	Poppy Patrol 03:00	buy track
8.	Stealing Space On Davie St 06:50	buy track

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Leaves crushing under foot and pedal steel open the sonic story that is the Jphono1 instrumental album “Low Key Companion”. A mixture of field recordings and beat based compositions occupy the same space to form a three-dimensional collage environment.

Improvisational porch jams, walks in the yard and other elements of found sounds in nature are combined with electronic manipulation. The present that was captured is transported and new forms are created.

“As I go on walks in the neighborhood or sit out on the porch they are my companions….low key…but always there with me. We are familiar with each other. We are different, we are the same.”

Beat based tracks “Sundown Glosson” Ode To Oaf Loaf” “Atonement Zen Blues” and “Poppy Patrol” act as a guide to gently lift the listener up and down from one environment to the next.

“From the names of the songs and the beats born in the studio to the sounds captured on the field recordings...this is my yard, my street, my neighborhood, my home. This is the music of a space I occupy.”

Video for "Stealing Space On Davie St" by Kellen Smith
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ruZFYOKZV0

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released October 21, 2022

Recorded and Mixed at Studio Bugalow by Jphono1

Additional Mixing and Master by Alan Weatherhead

Rocktropolis Music BMI
Copyright 2022

Cover design Chris Ballenger

All sounds by Jphono1 except

Nathan Golub (Track 1 and 8) Pedal Steel
Benjamin Felton (Track 3) Acoustic Guitar and Keyboard
Nature and Environment Field Recordings (Track 1 3 and 8)

Grateful to Nathan, Ben, Al and Chris. Hi Bug I Love You.

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jphono1 Carrboro, North Carolina

Jphono1 and friends explore new elements in sounds and arrangements with his fuzz-frayed folk-pop. Fragments of electronics, acoustic guitars, and keys join what at first resemble straight-forward compositions, only to break apart into unassuming lo-fi with casual psychedelia, finding a comfortable station at the intersection of Meat Puppets whimsy and Steve Gunn introspection. ... more

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