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The roots of a multi-national rock combo JUMP FOR JOY! can be thought as an experimental rock trio YOU ME & US (Daevid ALLEN, Yumi HARA and Chris CUTLER). They were booked to play at Jean-Hervé PÉRON's Avantgarde Festival in Schiphorst in 2014, but late in the day Daevid was unable to make it. Since most of Jean-Hervé's band, faUSt - including Geoff LEIGH - were all coming to the festival but not playing, Jean-Herve suggested Chris and Yumi join them as a new project named JUMP FOR JOY! to headline the festival. Later Elena Wolay (aka Jazz is Dangerous) was out in the audience and invited them to perform at her festival the following year in Gothenburg. Their founding lineup is as follows:

Yumi HARA (piano, keyboards, voices)
Chris CUTLER (drums, percussion)
Geoff LEIGH (flute, saxophones, electronics, voices)
Jean-Hervé PÉRON (bass, voices)
Zappi Werner DIERMAIER (drums, percussion)

And Geraldine SWAYNE (guitars, keyboards, voices) has joined since 2015.

The debut live album of JUMP FOR JOY! "Bat Pullover" has been released via Bonobo's Ark in September 2016.

(Biography written by Yumi Hara, and updated by Keishiro Maki)

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3.50 | 2 ratings
Bat Pullover
2016
3.90 | 2 ratings
Keeping Score
2017

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 Bat Pullover by JUMP FOR JOY! album cover Live, 2016
3.50 | 2 ratings

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Bat Pullover
Jump For Joy! RIO/Avant-Prog

Review by Windhawk
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator

3 stars Multinational ensemble JUMP FOR JOY! was an impromptu creation at a festival i 2014, combining members from the bands You, Me & Us and faUst. This spur of the moment band creation proved to be so successful that the band was invited to perform at a festival in Sweden the following year, and appears to have stayed in operation since. "Bat Pullover" is the first of the two albums released by the band to date.

Jump For Joy! is an ensemble that moves quickly into the heartland of avantgarde jazz and stays there for the duration of the concert experience this live album documents. The musicians are renowned instrumentalists and performers, and this is an album where you can easily hear that this is the case, even if the music itself doesn't speak to you. Those fond of expressive, avantgarde jazz with a liberal amount of improvisation should have a field day with this album.

 Keeping Score by JUMP FOR JOY! album cover Live, 2017
3.90 | 2 ratings

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Keeping Score
Jump For Joy! RIO/Avant-Prog

Review by DamoXt7942
Special Collaborator

4 stars JUMP FOR JOY!'s second album "Keeping Score" is veiled in an avantgarde sleeve of eccentric memorandum-flooded pics, that obviously gives us (the audience) incredible expectation for the content. And we will notice their music theatre will never betray us at all. They say this album was recorded as a live one at the R.I.O. Festival (France) in 2016, where they would have gigged quite lively and delightfully we can imagine easily (yes as their moniker says!). Their creation sounds pretty vivid not only for our auditory sensation but also for our visual impression. Guess their stage and performance should have been perfect for a picture. Every single player in the music commune plays on the stage with his/her massive intention to create another dimensional sound world perfectly.

The topnote is quite complex. In the beginning weird synthesizer-oriented sound pressure like a crying kitty confuses us. Multistreaming hard-edged percussion, crazy tremendous saxophone plays, or gorgeous piano sound compilation is exactly their credential of avantgarde, innovation. It's very amazing their improvised sound production is completely harmonized and crystallized together although each of them is kinda musical giant. My favourite movements are second and third. The second one drenched in tunes / noises / samples improvisation sounds like sorta Krautrock like Mahogany Brain or Semool. Rhythmic unification cannot be heard anywhere but can suggest everyone plays with full smile and full mind. In the third movement, we can hear beauty in confusion. Beneath Yumi's piano and maybe Japanese voices, we can feel ethnic delight and tragic vibe whilst sensitive, complicated moment.

The whole album can be thought as a JUMP FOR JOY's theatrical, inspired suite. This musical nutrition will directly be digested and absorbed in your brain, with such an eccentric sleeve pic. ;)

 Bat Pullover by JUMP FOR JOY! album cover Live, 2016
3.50 | 2 ratings

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Bat Pullover
Jump For Joy! RIO/Avant-Prog

Review by DamoXt7942
Special Collaborator

4 stars A multi-national experimental / improvisational rock sextet JUMP FOR JOY! have been founded in 2014 by six musicians of singular energy - Yumi HARA (piano, keyboards, voices), Chris CUTLER (drums, percussion), Geoff LEIGH (flute, saxophones, electronics, voices) based upon avantgarde / RIO feata family, and three faUSters Jean-Hervé PÉRON (bass, voices), Zappi Werner DIERMAIER (drums, percussion), Geraldine SWAYNE (guitars, keyboards, voices). Honest to say, I'm afraid whether such a crazy great combo formed by six artists of individuality can get unified strictly so far, but damn, no concern needed. Found out they had smashed their identity together upon the stage and crystallized as a music gem altogether, that has been finally recorded and released.

What an illusive music council. The audience can get immersed completely in sorta "unpolished" beauty created with energetic instrumental portfolio by all talents of identity. Each musical magnification joins hands with others just like a cup of ice cream seasoned with deeply matured soy sauce (yum really). Wish I could have attended RIO Festival in 2016 ... always feel so every time I read Ian Carss' review for them (and realized he's a sincere man ;) ). Polyrhythmic (dissecthismic?) sound intervention leaning toward the RIO / avantgarde movement merged with Faust's Krautrock bizarre black magic experimentalism (that can be heard e.g. via "Soleil Cheval Malade" or so).

Every piece has great tension launched by brilliant drumming duo who sound like a singular single aloof percussionist. And Yumi's piano always dress an experimental / avantgarde / mystical elixir for the audience and themselves. Geoff's wind instruments have definite massive personality, presence and existence, all of which should be about to swallow everything down. Actually, every artist has his/her own musical and artistic vector, therefore it sounds like one would turn his/her face toward the very same (musical) direction, I consider their soundscape cannot be recommended for every RIO / Avant-progressive rock freak, but yes we can grab another innovative milestone via this creation. Try it.

Thanks to DamoXt7942 for the artist addition. and to Yumi Hara for the last updates

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