Every Rise EP, by Joel St. Julien

Every Rise EP

by Joel St. Julien

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1.	How I Process the City of the Future 03:01	lyrics	buy track
The pursuit of happiness is a dog chasing its tail The fallacy of hard work Start-Up, Start Over The Economics of Distraction
2.	60 Days 04:21	lyrics	buy track
I think and it’s stuffed asunder Weigh me out in time Collecting dust Trust-fund envy Serenity break out It’s been 60 days And I’m backing up Hollowed out Scraped knees Rained out for weeks Release Please release me Dreams don’t make sense Multi-tasking Is my head stuck in the ground? Say you kicked me on fertile ground Would I become a tree?
3.	Functional 00:47		buy track
4.	All the Songs 03:24	lyrics	buy track
Everything I have is too much All of the music Novocain to the soul Apathy’s a cold shoulder What’s coming out? All the songs sound better in my head
5.	Life Without Love 00:45		buy track
6.	Every Rise 05:33	lyrics	buy track
It suits me if I just Did it myself All the time Exhale space massive My heart concealing Every shape and sound And every moon and star Every rise and fall Everything and emptiness Before, before I start thinking

about

This is the first of two upcoming releases from San Francisco composer Joel St. Julien. St. Julien has been building a name for himself as a composer for dance, film and other media for the past 5 years. Prior to that, he released albums on the now defunct Sounds Are Active label, with his former band, Ellul.

St. Julien created the songs that make up his latest work in between composing dance and film scores, sound design projects, and other commissioned pieces. Writing songs is a homecoming and this EP solidifies his mastery of the art. This album is about being let down and having absolutely no way out other than acceptance. Embarking on a fusion of off-beat rhythms, hushed vocals and ethereal soundscapes, St. Julien sits comfortably with musical syncretists such as Panda Bear, Stereolab, Dirty Projectors, but also gives nods to experimental artists like Tim Hecker and William Basinski. The album was written, produced and mixed in his one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco after his daughter was fast asleep. Another solid work in his catalog and a transport into the sonic world St. Julien creates for his listeners.

Press:

“All the Songs” sees San Francisco’s Joel St Julien crafting a beautifully scratchy, otherworldly beat ballad that is equal parts Yorke and Lotus.
-Dan Diggs

World-weariness has never been this thought-provoking or engaging.
-AFROPUNK.com

San Francisco based composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist Joel St. Julien is the kind of guy who stays in the mode of a juggler, as taxing as it may be, because of the unexpected connections it yields...an assiduously self-motivated songwriter-architect...
-Foreign Accents

You will mostly be listening to a lot of experimentalism, but if you pull your ears a bit closer into the construction of the sounds, you will experience a medley of different genres, each and every time.
-Indie Shuffle

St. Julien is a remarkably talented sound designer. Every Rise is filled with superlative textures and atmospheres.
-SF Weekly

credits

released March 4, 2016

Produced, recorded and mixed by Joel St. Julien at his apartment in San Francisco

Mastered by Justin Weis at Trakworx

Album artwork by John Felix Arnold III

Thanks to all who helped support this work. Infinite gratitude goes to my biggest inspirations Rhea and Olive. Thank you.

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Joel St. Julien San Francisco, California

Joel St. Julien is a Haitian-American composer, musician, songwriter, and sound artist based in San Francisco. Joel has written music for documentaries, short / feature films, podcasts, and dance. He is a firm believer in experimentation/fusion with acoustic and electronic elements in sound oscillating through escapism and the mysticism of the present tense. ... more

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discography

Unblend

Mar 2024
Masking

Jun 2022
dream

May 2022
EMPATHY

Oct 2021

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