JDSY - Adage of Known available on itunes exclusively April 15th
Artwork by: Patrick Rocha
JDSY
Adage Of Known
Ghostly International | Moodgadget Records
GI-71 / MGT-017-| digital | 22 April 2008 (officially everywhere)
Adage of Known plays like a game of sonic Exquisite Corpse. The Dada art movement’s parlor game, where drawn or written ideas were passed between artists and continued by the next. The result was a work that was of many minds, but flowed with a unique and subconscious energy. For his debut album Joey Sims is all sides of the event, both judge and jury, reader and repeater. His voice becomes an almost effortless object, its as if Joey is talking to himself across a darkened hall.
Young JDSY came to our attention via some very artful (literally with screws and pipecleaner attached) demos back in the early 2000’s. After we commissioned him for a remix of Solvent’s “For You” to staggering results, we had to have more.
After wading through literally hundreds of songs and concepts, the foundation that is Adage of Known emerged and the results are, in the words of Ghostly’s original mission statement, compelling, engrossing and best of all, subversive.
Having explored technology with no guidebook, his musical techniques are innovative and haphazard, which breathes a life into the songs that is consistently unique. Adage Of Known is a staggering debut of an artist who can pass ideas from the left hand to the right, a parlor trick which is a sign of young talent wise beyond its years.
Fan video for Smoke and Mirrors:
