Joe Nora – Rainfall EP

Joe Nora is well-known among the Spotify chill audience, working with acts like Kurt Stewart & Karavelo and being featured on numerous editorial playlists. Rainfall is a continuation of his staple organic electronica sound; a jazzy boom-bap and chillhop EP inspired by the only real week of rain in LA this year so far.

A carefree slow-jam from cover to cover, the EP features some truly memorable moments: smooth clarinet lines in the title track, while G Mills’ airy live drums provide the laid-back rhythms in “Far Out”. The clarinet returns frequently, lending its unique timbre to 3 of the 5 tracks on the release. Like the rain itself, the EP delivers reassurance in repetition, the title track being reworked at the end of the tracklist with the inclusion of a smooth clarinet topline.

The organic electronica sound of the EP brings with it a sense of duality; a push and pull between two ideas. This theme is a deliberate one, running as deep through Joe Nora’s music as it does through his choice of alias:

“The backstory of my name is that before I was born my parents decided they would call me Nora if I was a girl and Joey if I was a boy. Not wanting to know until the day of, they called me Joey Nora up until I was born and they found out I was a boy. It is the kind of balance that I liked about it, the sort of yin and yang of my name and of me.”

The Rainfall EP marks an exciting debut with Stereofox Records for Joe Nora.

Release schedule:
– 25 May – “Boska”
– 8 June – “Far Out” (feat. G Mills)
– 22 June – Rainfall EP