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Kishi Bashi / Tall Tall Trees & The Sound Sanctuary
Kishi Bashi / Tall Tall Trees & The Sound Sanctuary
Do plants have consciousness? Is it possible to find a musical frequency in the biological rhythms of the organic world? Can creative authorship exist beyond the human form? Joyful Noise Recordings invites listeners to explore these questions with the signing of its newest and perhaps most radical artist: the Sound Sanctuary. A living collective, the Sound Sanctuary is a plant ensemble centered around a towering money tree (Pachira aquatica) and four rubber trees (Ficus elastica). To honor natural...
Live at Big Ears
Joyful Noise Players
Wendy Eisenberg, Thor Harris, Shahzad Ismaily, Kramer, Hope Littwin, Greg Saunier, Macie Stewart, Tall Tall Trees Amidst a sea of innovative artists at the 2025 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, the lure of a particularly legendary lineup summons a packed audience to this Pretentious Brewing Co. jam session. Eight disparate musicians gather to collectively invoke playful musical spirits. What follows is a chaos-jam truly living up to the name of the label presenting it. Everyone on stage euphorically engages with their array...
Joyful Noise Halloween Party, Vol. 1 (2023)
Various Artists
From 2017 to 2022, we at Joyful Noise had a holiday tradition in which we enlisted our roster to record new and improved songs for the winter season. Well, we are doing things a little differently in 2023 (and likely for years to come)... In 2023 we continue our holiday tradition, but we're focusing on a very different holiday...The Joyful Noise Halloween Party, Vol 1 is, frankly, one of the best various artist collections we have ever produced. Swamp Dogg does Screamin' Jay...
Stick To The Mystical I
Tall Tall Trees
Mike Savino, the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter behind Tall Tall Trees, had big plans for getting through the pandemic with his sanity intact. He built a recording studio in the basement of his home in Asheville, North Carolina, setting himself up to lay down the tracks for a new album. To help see them across the finish line, Savino invited his longtime friend and member of indie rock mainstays WHY? Josiah Wolf to help him out. But everything changed once they set up...
2021 Holiday Special Snowflathes
Joyful Noise
We’re suckers for a good tradition over at JNR, one of them being our annual “holiday special” with holiday-themed covers by the JNR roster. Once again, we’ll be offering snowflake-shaped lathe-cut 7" records (AKA “Snowflathes”) to commemorate this mighty celebration. This year however, the Snowflathes are ultra-limited. Usually we cut 100 copies of each holiday song, but due to pandemic-related supply issues and the physical limitations of lathe machine (as well as our desire for Moose to have a good holiday with...
Every Day Is A Sunday b/w Slow Motion Feel
Kishi Bashi / El Ten Eleven / Tall Tall Trees
If there’s one good thing about the pandemic, it has certainly provided the opportunity for some unique artistic collaborations. This limited edition release features the unlikely collaboration / split 7" from three Joyful Noise artists: Kishi Bashi, Tall Tall Trees, and El Ten Eleven. Even though Kishi Bashi and Tall Tall Trees are touring bandmates, these two are not crossing creative streams this time around… Instead, the legendarily prolific instrumental band El Ten Eleven has stepped in as the collaborator for both sides...
Emigrant EP
Kishi Bashi
Kishi Bashi’s Emigrant EP is a lush bluegrass-inspired album referencing the brutal history and harsh climate of the American West. Arranged and recorded over the last year, Emigrant serves as a time capsule of the 2020 condition as it meditates on the anxieties of the COVID-19 pandemic, the comforts of nature, the pains of resource-fueled conflicts, and the resiliency that emerges from struggle. In grappling with history and stepping into personal identity, Kishi Bashi’s Emigrant is steeped in the past...
Safe In Sound (Home Recordings From Quarantine)
Joyful Noise Presents:
Struggle and isolation often spawn great art. In this strange moment of history, we can't help but see the potential for creation... With all of our artist's sidelined from touring and regular life plans, we decided to commission the artists of our label to record a new song from within their quarantine environment. The resulting project is called "Safe In Sound - Home Recordings From Quarantine". Featuring songs written and recorded while each artist is isolated at home during the...
A Wave of Golden Things
Tall Tall Trees
Tall Tall Trees is songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mike Savino. A Wave of Golden Things, his fourth studio album, opens with the distant crow of a rooster and takes off in a dust cloud of swirling banjo, drums, and bass, melding the influences of Pink Floyd and Cat Stevens with inspiration from banjo pioneers Earl Scruggs and Bela Fleck. Savino, who self-records and produces his music, abandoned the heavily-layered textures of 2017’s Freedays for a more organic, stripped-down approach on A...
Omoiyari
Kishi Bashi
Imagine being forced from your home. Imagine being sent to a prison camp with no trial, and no promise of release. Imagine all this happened simply because of the language you speak, the shade of your skin, or the roots of your family tree. For over 120,000 Japanese-Americans this was a reality during World War II. It’s a reality that Kishi Bashi seeks to reckon with on his latest release Omoiyari. Omoiyari is Kishi Bashi’s fourth album -- following the...
Freedays
Tall Tall Trees
To say that Mike Savino is an innovator would be an understatement. Touring under the moniker Tall Tall Trees, the banjo-wielding bard has reshaped the landscape of what is possible with the instrument. On stage and in studio, Savino breaks down the banjo into its most basic iteration, reminding audiences that the banjo is, at root, a drum. Coupled with his mastery of electronic effects, loops, toy ray guns, and heaps of spontaneous creativity, Tall Tall Trees has been encapsulating...