LIGHTMAN JARVIS ECSTATIC BAND SHARE MYSTICAL NEW VIDEO, DEBUT LP BANNED OUT TODAY

June 25, 2021

**LIGHTMAN JARVIS ECSTATIC BAND DEBUT LP, BANNED, OUT TODAY VIA FLEMISH EYE**

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WATCH AND SHARE “ANCIENT CHAIN” HERE

Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band, the new project by underground Canadian artists and partners Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman, has released its debut album today titled Banned.

“This album is a loose manifesto in our shared vision for a way of being,” says Lightman. “It’s about our relationship and the dynamics in that. There’s an epic-ness to it and tension at times. We’ve been developing our collaborative process since spending our time together at the Tree Museum intermittently for the past two years. It’s like the ways particles collide. There’s an alchemical aspect to it with these base components slamming together.”

WATCH AND SHARE “ANCIENT CHAIN” HERE

As Lightman mentions, Banned was recorded in the tranquil environment of the Tree Museum, an outdoor art gallery in rural Ontario hosting residencies for contemporary sculptors over the past 20 years. The pair credit its 200 acres of natural spaces intermingling with human-made creations as the fuel for their unfettered process. Recorded over two weeks in a free-flowing stream of improvisation, the album finds Lightman on synthesizer with Jarvis on drums and guitar, as their voices weave together into an electrified pastoral tapestry.

WATCH AND SHARE “ELASTIC BAND” HERE

Beyond leaving the city behind to live alone in the woods, the album title Banned also highlights an element of risk. Like late ’60s counterculture musical Hair, the duo reject notions of repression with unspoken celebrations of naturalism, openness, and sexual liberation. These 15 songs offer an ephemeral intimacy and invitation to express free love that can only occur when artists welcome listeners into their private world.

WATCH AND SHARE “NYMPHEA” HERE

For both musicians, the album’s ad hoc creation offered a chance to challenge themselves: Jarvis defying his solitary practice to record with another person, while open jams provided Lightman an alternative to her preference for thoroughly composed songwriting. Subverting any expectations for a collaborative release made by a couple, they skip past cute or romantic and aim straight for ecstasy.

“Ecstasy is perverse and sacred,” says Jarvis. “To display ecstatic joy like we do on this album is a vulnerable thing. First and foremost it’s about our desire for creative expression and the curiosity around that. It should be censored, but it won’t be.”

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BANNED TRACKLIST
1. Olamim
2. Ancient Chain
3. Recurring Theme
4. Red Champa
5. Trillium
6. Nymphea
7. Bone of a Hound
8. Ein Sof
9. Lift My Heart
10. Elastic Band
11. Becoming
12. Mother’s Rope
13. Slick Oil
14. Stomach Pit
15. Tomb of the Patriarchs

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LIGHTMAN JARVIS ECSTATIC BAND SHARE VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK “NYMPHEA”

June 8, 2021

WATCH AND SHARE “NYMPHEA” HERE

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**YVES JARVIS AND ROMY LIGHTMAN NEW PROJECT, LIGHTMAN JARVIS ECSTATIC BAND, TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM, BANNED, ON JUNE 25 VIA FLEMISH EYE**

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Photo Credit: Jeff Bierk // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band – the idiosyncratic new project of Canadian artists Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman – have shared the video for a new track today from their upcoming album, Banned, out on June 25 via Flemish Eye in Canada (and ANTI- elsewhere).

“Nymphea” was written beside jagged water lilies suspended over emerald swamp rhizomes; tiny mystics domes foaming intricate hiss lake hiccup spit floating amorphous euphoric masses of wild hearts secreting white orifices arched and thrusted towards the light and spread out like across the lake,” Jarvis and Lightman said of the spot in nature where the song was inspired. “[The song is] an ode to erotic wonder; wandering the elastic nomadic plains where home is a far off floating flower and tethered by an encoded longing an ecstatic refrain.”

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In the past decade, Jarvis’s ever-expanding swatch of releases on ANTI- Records and Flemish Eye have earned international acclaim, while Lightman’s twin-sister-led band Tasseomancy has transfixed listeners since the late 2000s. The debut album from Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band marks the duo’s first collaboration, slingshotting both musicians out of their comfort zones into spellbinding territories of lysergic folk and impressionistic rock.

Banned was recorded in the tranquil environment of the Tree Museum, an outdoor art gallery in rural Ontario hosting residencies for contemporary sculptors over the past 20 years. Beyond leaving the city behind to live alone in the woods, the album title Banned also highlights an element of risk. Like late ’60s counterculture musical Hair, the duo reject notions of repression with unspoken celebrations of naturalism, openness, and sexual liberation. These 15 songs offer an ephemeral intimacy and invitation to express free love that can only occur when artists welcome listeners into their private world.

WATCH AND SHARE “ELASTIC BAND” HERE

BUY / STREAM “ELASTIC BAND” HERE

On the quasi-title-track “Elastic Band” Jarvis and Lightman sound completely at ease as their voices harmonize in a rustling thicket of instrumentation.

“It starts off as a psychedelic CGI bubble bath and ends with the two band members battling it out in a Dragonball Z-style fight. It's pretty appropriate for a meandering, shreddy song about a rocky relationship,” said The Fader.

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YVES JARVIS AND ROMY LIGHTMAN ANNOUNCE NEW PROJECT: LIGHTMAN JARVIS ECSTATIC BAND

April 20, 2021

**LIGHTMAN JARVIS ECSTATIC BAND TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM, BANNED, ON JUNE 25 VIA FLEMISH EYE**

WATCH AND SHARE “ELASTIC BAND” HERE

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Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band – aka Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman - are a pair of idiosyncratic and restlessly creative artists. In the past decade, Jarvis’s ever-expanding discography on ANTI- Records and Flemish Eye have earned international acclaim, while Lightman’s twin-sister-led band Tasseomancy has transfixed listeners since the late 2000s. Their debut album Banned – coming out on June 25 - marks the duo’s first collaboration, slingshotting both musicians out of their comfort zones into spellbinding territories of lysergic folk and impressionistic rock.

On the quasi-title-track, “Elastic Band”, Jarvis and Lightman sound completely at ease as their voices harmonize in a rustling thicket of instrumentation.

WATCH AND SHARE “ELASTIC BAND” HERE

BUY / STREAM “ELASTIC BAND” HERE

Banned was recorded in the tranquil environment of the Tree Museum, an outdoor art gallery in rural Ontario hosting residencies for contemporary sculptors over the past 20 years. The pair credit its 200 acres of natural spaces intermingling with human-made creations as the fuel for their unfettered process. Recorded over two weeks in a free-flowing stream of improvisation, the album finds Lightman on synthesizer with Jarvis on drums and guitar, as their voices weave together into an electrified pastoral tapestry.

“There are archetypes associated with love and togetherness,” says Lightman. “Then there’s a deeper way of being that sometimes isn’t documented. Our Ecstatic Band genuinely expresses that. It’s not only about a genre resonating and what came about musically - it’s about our love in collaboration with wind, trillium, plague days, moss and Precambrian rock.”

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L to R: Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman - Photo Credit: Jeff Bierk // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

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