j.o.y.s. - j.o.y.s.

j.o.y.s. is both the moniker of and the debut self-titled LP by the Los Angeles based artist Ramon Narvaez. j.o.y.s. is an acronym for “jump out of your skin”. While the phrase can conjure moments of shock and surprise, Narvaez, however uses the phrase as a foot lamp illuminating a path towards momentary transcendence - a sudden or gradual process of skin-shedding of former selves and past lives. j.o.y.s., as an album, lives in the sinewy flex of an ouroboros turn - reconciling with the past before blissfully stumbling into something new.The music on j.o.y.s. follows a similar serpentine path. An album is comprised of 9 songs that represent the culmination of countless hours of experimentation and collaboration that went into recording this album. This consisted of Narvaez living in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles using a spartan set-up of electric guitar, a few pedals and a laptop and Narvaez’s longtime friend and collaborator Justin Gaynor contributing pedal steel from