"ALAK (formally Alas, alak, Alaska!) is an adventurous project that is simultaneously easy to listen to and enjoy, but also complex and perplexing in the most welcome of ways. At the core is Jocelyn Noir, who has crafted dark and eager songs that are intricate and precise, and once fully orchestrated with a band that can include multiple vocalists, piano and sax - expand into wild arrangements that are Captain Beefheart / Magic Band rivals in their own right, though still all spiraling around and complimenting her soft and haunting vocals. It seems very fitting to see a T. Rex anthology on top of a recently purchased copy of the "Shiny Beast" LP, though that is not to say that ALAK sounds like any of this specifically. She / they are doing something that is unique and beautiful and moves you."
""Clarinettis Qoonotations: Too Many Notes." fucking preternatural and golden weave of g-nashing teeth, is the long awaited new full-length release from California-based musician Jocelyn Noir's ALAK .
Noir's album is permeated by a strange Gothic air. A heavy, hanging dark smoke that twists and turns itself into animated baroque swirls, occasionally clearing to reveal a blindingly clear light.
This is a special record."
---Kaleidoscope
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ALAK's “Clarinettis Qoonotations: Too Many Notes.” fucking preternatural and golden weave of g-nashing teeth is as sonically strange as its title. The project's the brainchild of California-based songwriter Jocelyn Noir whose material clearly reveals the composer's propensity for surrealistic songcraft. Throughout this arresting collection, saxophone, flute, clarinet, keyboards, electric guitar, and percussion instruments cohere into eccentric arrangements and psychedelic compositional structures, with all of it augmented by Noir's softly chirping and occasionally demonic vocals. Listening to the release is like visiting a candy store, with every piece offering a rush of multi-coloured delights and unpredictable flavours. The thirteen songs include everything from an overture of muffled horn blasts (“Alas, runners.”) and electric guitar vignette (“Tragos Ode”) to a viral, harpsichord-laced concoction (“Juniper the Arrowss”) and bright disco-pop (“Crystal Power Attack”). “Key Drum Catawba” is a frenetic Molotov cocktail of warped vocal babble and diseased carousel whirligig, while the instrumental “Tha Ginseng Jissup” serenades the listener with a sing-song keyboard melody during a jaunty gallop in the Far East. “Wooleathe Mneathe” might superficially sound like a conventional folk song but its off-kilter vocal melodic lines and tempo changes render it odd and unsettling. As it's done before, Kaleidoscope presents its release in arresting manner by packaging the CD in a seven-inch sleeve and accompanying the disc with a couple of paper items. Exposing oneself to ALAK's black cauldron for forty-two minutes proves to be a more than satisfying proposition.
---- http://www.textura.org
"Jocelyn Jade Noir's project ALAK has churned out a polished new album that borders between folk and experimental rock entitled 'Clarinettis Qoonotations: Too Many Notes'. It opens with a rumbling jumble of sound that features a plethora of instruments before leading into Jocelyn's first great piece "Because surprises change so little." Like many of the songs included on this album, the song involves a melodious combination of instruments as Jocelyn's striking vocals weave their way through the song in a hushed undertone.
Each song is unique in its implementation and the lyrics filter through like the lines of a spoken word poem. Yet, the band truly shines in its surprising ability to characterize so many different styles through-out the album. From slow numbers such as "Wooleathe Mneathe" and "Tragos Ode," to a song encompassing funk-inspired dance rhythms like "Crystal Power Attack," the CD is truly diverse. Alak's melodious and experimental combinations make the album rather beautiful and accessible. I highly recommend that you pick it up and get cozy."
----Clinton Gibson/KDVS
California has always been a hot bed of experimental musicians that harness the suns energy to create something bizarre, mental and often life affirming.
Jocelyn Noir, aka Alak, is pretty good at projecting all three of those elements and that's why she's getting The 405 Radar service this week.
From Radiohead style drama to the experimental bent of Animal Collective (minus the fanfare), Jocelyn Noir and her band of merry men are bringing psych to the folk table and leaving with a plate of noise apples.
gigolos get lonely too is by morris day of morris day and the time of prince's purple rain fame. also a small shout out in one of Jay and Silent Bob's movies about people doing stupid things.
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