JER
It's Not a Joke
There is music that does not arrive. It returns.
It's Not a Joke is JER's debut album — and first albums cost something. This one cost emptiness: the kind that comes after you've given everything and have to decide whether to keep going anyway. She kept going.
The record opens with "Angu" — Portuguese learned from living, not from books — and moves through grief, psychedelia, displacement and irony, closing with a saxophone solo that leaves everything unresolved. Between Bahia and Toronto, between terreiro and synthesizer.
- feat.
- Chibatinha (ÀTTØØXXÁ) · Borelson · Dhaivat Jani · May · Ícaro Sá · Iuri Passos · Pupillo · Antonio Neves · Pedro Dantas · Leonardo Caribe · Tuta · Demetrious Petslaki · Nação Estrela Brilhante — Brazil, Canada & Africa
- prod.
- JER · João Leão
- mix
- Mark Lawson (Grammy Award–winning)
- master
- Justin Gray (Grammy Award–winning)
You're in. It won't be long.
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