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Earth Arrangements, Vol. 1

by Yehan Jehan

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Treat Us Bad 03:33
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Haze 04:15
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Forms 03:33
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The most obvious label for Yehan Jehan’s luxurious music would be to call it yacht rock, and there’s a polish to his songs which can trace a lineage back to Steely Dan and Hall & Oates, as well as easing next to contemporaries like Foxygen and Kindness. But there is a breadth to the Paris-based Londoner’s sound that takes it far beyond the confines of the genre. He can harness a groove like Giorgio Moroder, or create slick funk or sumptuous prog – his musical ability is startling, and, in the tradition of Beck and Prince, Yehan produces and plays everything himself.
Yehan was born in North London after his musician parents moved from Bosnia in 1991. His father is a composer, his mother a piano teacher who taught Yehan from a young age. Her love of classical music feeds its way into the elegant shape of Yehan’s songs. He was composing music by the age of 12, while at the same time writing scripts, making films and animations. These interests have continued into adulthood – an artistic polymath, Yehan designs his own artwork and directs his videos.

“I’m passionate about all the fields I’m involved with,” he explains. “If I work on music continuously and neglect my visual side, then once my music is made I can put my energy there.”

That ‘Earth Arrangements’ is the work of one man is impressive. That it’s all been done, videos and ‘80s-inspired artwork and all, from his compact Paris apartment is pretty damn remarkable.

‘Earth Arrangements’ follows Yehan Jehan’s 2017 debut ‘Expansions EP’, described as “hazy, woozy, and highly inventive” by Clash, while The Guardian wrote “boy wonder swallows his dad’s soul and funk record collection whole, and gives it his own cosmic spin.”

The new EP is released on Aphrodite, a new label from Alexander Waldron, co-founder of the Greco-Roman label that launched acts like Joe Goddard, Tirzah and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. A companion EP, ‘Earth Arrangements Vol.2’, will be released in early 2020.

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released November 15, 2019

Written, arranged, performed and produced by Yehan Jehan
Mixed by Yehan Jehan
Mastered by Vlado Dzihan at Milkshop Mastering
Published by Reservoir Reverb Music Ltd./Big Life Music Ltd

℗ © 2019 Aphrodite

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If Yehan Jehan didn’t exist, someone would have to invent him. In the tradition of Beck and Prince, Yehan Jehan is a cartoon maelstrom of creativity – the fact he writes, produces and plays all his elegant, gliding music seems almost normal when you consider that this Paris-based Londoner also oversees his own artwork and directs his slightly sinister music videos with a close-knit team. ... more

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