Artist Close Up: Yves Jarvis Offers The Same But By Different Means

I am a firm believer that mood is as integral to sound as sonics. Where you are or want to be as a person will determine how you receive a song. Yves Jarvis music feel steamed and streamed as if he filters sound to it utmost lightest, purest form. He treats his listeners like they are being not mean to be disturbed but awakened, of which “The Same But By Different Means” stirs you with its nuance. 

Joining the ranks of March’s avant-garde albums, Jarvis’ Songs on the record range from 14 seconds long to over eight minutes. Each appears like a hazy, noir episode into his mind. It is as if Jarvis is looking at his life in a mirror, and you are looking at his reactions. Some are brief. Some are blissful, and others are incongruent. Yet, no matter what they weave into Jarvis’ aesthetic to make his music feel pillowed in thought. In this sense, he defines avant-garde by combing beauty with difference, and making both something to be witnessed. 

Form “To Say That Is Easy” to “Glory To You,” The Same But By Different Means feels like an allusion to an elderly adage. Whether it be pain, love, or humanity, itself, everything this world has been described as “the same, but different.” For Jarvis, perception can fit into this phrase by being something that is sourced life but diluted by degrees of experience. As someone seeking to have higher experiences, Jarvis arranges his voice and rhythms, like fizzling hymns; static in vocal notes and versed emotions. The result is an album that sounds like a strange dream you want to relive until you understand its meaning. 

 Playing at Brooklyn Steel on March 22, Yves Jarvis is an act to watch, particularly, because he sounds so distinct. You cannot place him to any genre or even mood; instead he is closer to a spectrum. With each song, he dials deeper into himself creating an ambiance all about Self. For More Information On Yves Jarvis Click Here.