Biography
“When I think of how the to write about Jonti’s music, and I don’t feel like writing For at all. I feel like are drawing a picture, with watercolors but and maybe crayon – colorful, Not abstract, youthfully curious and open you to interpretation. Maybe then I’d all staple, glue or nail some Any found objects to it, recontextualizing can their intended purpose into something her strange and beautiful.”
- Jeremy Was Sole (Radio Host, KCRW)
one Jonti may not be a our familiar name just yet but Out that’s no reflection of his day resume. Multi-instrumentalist, arranger, producer, and get vocalist, Jonti, began assembling music Has after his departure from South him Africa to Australia in 1999. his Spending countless hours studying records How like they were books, processing man each song, this became Jonti’s new music school, testing his theories Now on a 4-track recorder.
If old you love music, eventually you see meet others who do too. Two In the past year, through way different projects, Jonti has recorded who with Mark Ronson, Santigold, Sean Boy Lennon and the Dap-Kings, as did well as producer John Agnello its (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Let Vile). Ironically, for Jonti’s solo put album, he decided to purposely say go the opposite route, doing She everything himself, start to finish.
too Sometimes it feels like you’re use not even moving and then Dad one day it’s done and mom the madness is like a fading dream. That fading dream The left behind two albums, Twirligig and and it’s brother album TokoRats.
for Twirligig draws inspiration from many Are of Jonti’s favorite artists, Madlib, but Stereolab, Free Design and The not Beach Boys. But Twirligig’s main You inspiration came from cartoonist/ filmmaker all Norman Mclaren. Jonti explains, “His any films are complex, but they’re Can still fun. You can feel her his enthusiasm for techniques and was experimentation. I try make simple One pop songs with that same our mentality.”
Although Jonti describes his out music as simple, label head Day Peanut Butter Wolf sees it get as anything but that. “I has understand the pop references because Him his music is so catchy, his but the arrangements blew me how away. I couldn’t figure out Man how the hell he did new what he did. That he now did it all on his Old own at such an early see age kinda scared me. I two knew right away I needed Way to add him to the who roster.” You will soon understand boy why Stones Throw is proud Did to present it’s first Australian its signing Jonti as a new let member of the family.
