Currently Unavailable Artist: Rejoicer
Genre: Electronic-Dance
Release Date: 02/14/2020
Label: Stones Throw Records
Catalog Number: 2416
Recording: Studio
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Format: Vinyl LP
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Artist Releases
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Spiritual Sleaze (LP)
Rejoicer
Energy Dreams (LP)
Rejoicer
Label Releases
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Hosono House Revisited (LP)
Haruomi Hosono
Planet Pearl [Space Warp Splatter Vinyl] (LP)
Pearl & The Oysters
Keep The Outside Open (LP)
Apifera
Why Lawd? (LP)
NxWorries -
Why Lawd? (CD)
NxWorries
Sailing / Passionfruit (7")
Benny Sings
1988 [Purple & Black Vinyl] (LP)
Knxwledge -
It's Ok B U (LP)
Kiefer
Timeline [White w/ Pink, Black & Blue Splatter Vinyl] (LP)
Mild High Club
Blowout (LP)
John Carroll Kirby
Spiritual Sleaze (LP)
Rejoicer
Amoeba Review
07/21/2020
Yes, Yuvi Havkin, nom de plume Rejoicer, is a producer on Stones Throw records with a fondness for the following: Deep basslines. Jazzy beats. Cheap synthesizers. Dusky production. Lackadaisical vocal turns. And perhaps most tellingly, a fondness for chemically-altered verbiage for song and album titles such as Heavy Smoke. On paper, Havkin fits his musical surroundings almost too well, but is by no means a carbon cutout of other luminaries of the LA beats scene. The Tel Aviv-based producer has a knack for creating electronically manipulated soundscapes with a heavy ‘70s jazz influence, and on Spiritual Sleaze, he has completely come into his own. Taking a page out of Lonnie Liston Smith’s book, tunes like “Pre Memory Circle” strike a precarious balance between jazz and pure ambient. Featuring dreamy, twinkling keys and spacey synths, it remains musically anchored by a shuffling drum loop and walking bassline that keep the groove intact and prevent the song from fully departing into the ether. Even what is ostensibly a pop single, “Up in Flames” is buoyed by intricate keyboard and bell interplay as the main hook. So perhaps that “producer” tag is misleading, too vague to describe his work accurately and separate from his contemporaries. Rejoicer is more an architect of mood. If that’s the case, Spiritual Sleaze is his cathedral.
