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Valparaiso

by Joy As A Toy

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Disco Dog 03:24
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Sub Rosa 03:06
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Joy As a Toy 03:17
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12345 03:00
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Hesitation 00:47
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Valparaiso 05:10
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Home 02:57
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about

Gilles Mortio, Clement Nourry and Jean-Philippe De Gheest formed Joy As A Toy to satisfy their love of fun and games. The band’s main ambition is to get the audience to dance to their raw and largely improvised rock music which is based on powerful riffs and radical atmosphere changes. The trio is capable of suddenly switching from a simple melody to sonic madness that verges on trippy, psychedelic music.

As a result, they will wear the audience out and leave it feeling empty. But the band might not get everyone to dance. They are very much aware of this paradox. They may rule the dancefloor just as well as they may suck the energy out of the listener. They have even made this Joy As A Toy’s registrered trademark since they claim to play “tennis pop” and “vampire rock”.

The latter description could only but wet Cheap Satanism Records’ appetite. Soon the young, Brussels-based label’s pseudo-satanists were to make a deal with the trio.

A 43-minute long monster called Valparaiso was born. This city from Chili is the only destination where none of Joy As A Toy’s members have traveled to.
Recorded in Brussels in two days with special guests Mai Lev, Fred “Lyenn” Jacques and Berlin-based belgian vibraphone player Els Vandeweyer, Valparaiso is packed with exhilaration, energy, poetry and unbridled humour. It’s a kind of high-octane mix between The Talking Heads and Robert Wyatt, sprinkled with Deerhoof’s tongue in cheek attitude.

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released June 7, 2010

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Cheap Satanism Records Brussel, Belgium

Cheap Satanism Records started as a joke. This lead to more jokes. Initially the label was built around a personality and this personality’s projects. But since, it has become the base of a highly creative game, determined to rule, using force and cunning if necessary. Many things will happen under this banner – 666 projects at least! ... more

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