Joviale is a multidisciplinary artist from North London making otherworldly,
immersive music that plays with “minimal textures, killer interjections and
vocals that are equal parts restraint and rage.” (The Times) Looping these high
vocals with heady, emotional chords, they weave a screen around the listener,
pulling them into chaptered, strangely sweet variations of the artist, divided out
across albums, and designed to generate a performative atmosphere, both on
stage and through the recording.

Following their debut EP Crisis, in which Joviale wielded narrative and
storytelling to build a dreamy, silk-wrapped universe across songs such as
Dreamboat, and Taste of the Heavens, 2021 saw the release of the artist’s second
EP Hurricane Belle. Joviale combines warm sensual exposure with a flash of
teeth, as the fictional Hurricane Belle whirls onto the scene, an embodiment of
the “sense of electric and spiralised chaos” erupting from the artist’s centre.
Hurricane Belle is a Champion that was inspired by Peter Shenai’s “Hurricane
Bell” experiment, in which he cast brass bells modelled on the five stages of
Hurricane Katrina. Industrial, insatiable and metallic, Hurricane Belle is
embedded in the album not only through sound, but also through sight; the first
single of the project, Blow, is accompanied by a self-directed video, reflecting
Joviale’s increased interest in the visual arts, and in building multisensory
experiences.

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