Jolly

Recommended

The recommendation of this week is the American Progressive Rock / Metal band, Jolly. In July 2009 Jolly released their first album, called "Forty-Six Minutes, Twelve Seconds of Music", an album well received that quickly made them ​​a record deal with the famous label Inside Out Music / Century Media.

The second album, "The Audio Guide to Happiness (Part 1)", was released in February 2011 and is the album that caught my attention for this band (as you can turn your back to an album with a title like that..). The record is based on a scientific research and his purpose is to induce the listener in a state of joy.

"Through extensive research and surveys from over 5,000 subjects, JOLLY has combined the art of musical production with sociological and neurological data, packaging it all into one cohesive system comprised of four phases. The first two phases make up part 1 of The Audio Guide to Happiness. 

The Audio Guide to Happiness allows the listener to venture deep within his/her emotional core. The brain’s emotional perception and response evolved long before the emergence of logic and reasoning, traits that distinguish the human race. Because of this evolutionary disconnect, the ability to fully understand emotion lies beyond reasoning's limitations. With this combination of musical, lyrical, and binaural stimulation, we are able to directly target the brain’s limbic and autonomic nervous systems, almost completely bypassing the frontal lobe. In short, the emotions are directly addressed without being filtered through the brain’s logic center. The listener can therefore see his/her emotion in its true form without being forced to oversimplify it with labels and categorizations. The result is an emotionally limber and self-aware brain completely accepting of its unique place in the world." (http://www.myspace.com/jollyband)

Albums

1. Forty-Six Minutes, Twelve Seconds Of Music

Type: Studio CD

Release date: 2009

Label: Galileo Records / Progrock Records

Genre: Progressive Rock

Tracklist:

01. Escape From DS-3
02. Renfaire
03. Peril
04. Red Sky Locomotive
05. We Had An Agreement
06. Downstream
07. Carousel Of Whale
08. Solstice
09. Inside The Womb

2. The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 1)
Type: Studio CD

Release date: 28 February 2011

Label: Inside Out Records

Genre: Progressive Rock

Tracklist: 

01. Guidance One
02. Ends Where It Starts
03. Joy
04. Pretty Darlin'
05. The Pattern
06. Storytime
07. Guidance Two
08. Still A Dream
09. Radiae
10. Where Everything's Perfect
11. Dorothy's Lament
12. Intermission

Sample:

Jolly - Joy

Jolly - The Pattern

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