About this episode
Geoff Stanfield interviews Canadian musician Yves Jarvis about his award-winning album and unique music-making process.
Happy New Year and welcome to season nine of the Tape Op Podcast! For this episode, we welcome Yves Jarvis, the moniker of Canadian musician Jean-Sébastien Yves Jarvis. His latest release, All Cylinders, won Canada’s Polaris Music Prize for best album of 2025, a record on which Jarvis wrote and performed all of the 16 tracks. Made entirely using Audacity and a half-broken laptop, the collection showcases his love of ‘60s and ‘70s classic rock, soul, and folk music, but it also shines a light on his post-modern approach to music making. Geoff Stanfield caught up with Yves from his home studio in Montreal for this engaging, and often philosophical, conversation. Enjoy!
People in this episode
Host: Geoff Stanfield
Guest: Yves Jarvis
Topics covered
- music production
- Canadian music
- Polaris Music Prize
- classic rock
- soul
- folk music
- post-modern music
Keywords
- Yves Jarvis
- Polaris Music Prize
- All Cylinders
- music production
- Audacity
- classic rock
- soul
- folk music
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Polaris Music Prize
Places: Montreal
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