JazzRX

JuJu Exchange, The
Self-Release
General | Apr 2023

Reviews

Red West
Reviewed 2023-05-01
Pleasant mostly-instrumental jazz, would mix well with Sufjan Stevens. Concept is listeners ask for music to help with what they’re going through and the band responds with musical treatments, 1-2 minutes long. Simple production. All tracks decent. Favorites: 6, 11, 20, 27.
1. mellow dreamy, happy drowsy feel. Short instrumental teaser
2. Pentatonic? Shamisen? Japanese feel. Autumnal. Tentative opening, piano-jazz closing
3. Spoken intro for next track
4. Abstract snippets of themes and beats, motivational, short
5. Pleasant augmented 7ths (just making that up) gets into a groove- enjoyable but feels like they’re on autopilot
6. Vocals fade in & welcome addition to the music, which continues on theme from previous track- mellow synths and sax. Upbeat ear-worm, comes together, deconstructs & reassembles itself.
7. mellow swelling sounds, like backwards tape mixed with forward piano
8. synth and trumpet, upbeat, like a science center accompaniment
9. guitar noodling loop builds up, then vocal and bird samples. Like a Postal Service outtake.
10. Children’s song vibe, like the title says, hand clapping-like percussion, no words.
11. cool slow beat, lightens up
12. mellow jazz chords, about 30 seconds in full band joins
13. new age noodling on metallic synth warbles
14. 0:09 vocal intro to next track
15. Loose and easy
16. Electro-jazz picks up in pace
17. Struck bowls in “crystal shop” intro, then piano mixes, takes over.
18. 0:06 intro to next track
19. Anxious backwards-sounds, piano trills
20. Full, driving sound
21. Sparse, words “why must we fall”
22. Interesting samples, curious dream music
23. gentle, uplifting (and at 3:40 the longest)
24. lilting piano loops
25. dreamy massage interlude
26. trumpet dream
27. takes the theme from previous track and turns it into a pretty song with smooth male vocal
28. uplifting and stumbling at the same time, it works.

Recent airplay

Prelude, Smile Again (Ft. DIXSON)
Virtually HappyAug 03, 2023
Pulse https://thejujuexchange.bandcamp.com/album/jazzrx
Virtually HappyJun 17, 2023

Charting

2023-06-10 — 2023-08-12 Electronic
Week EndingAirplays
Aug 6 1
Jun 18 1

Track listing

1. Soothed
2. Convo
3. Living Room Prompt
4. Living Room
5. Endings Beginnings
6. Always Here (Ft. Akenya)
7. Low & Behold
8. Green From Grey
9. Back Again (Ft. Verner)
10. Children's Song
11. Pulse
12. Humm
13. Nearly
14. Fecundity Prompt
15. Fecundity
16. Inauguration Ball (Ft. Derrick Hodge)
17. I Just Know
18. Meadower Prompt
19. Meadower
20. Transition & Waiting
21. Fall
22. Resilience
23. Issa Ballad
24. More Than A Memory
25. Serenity Room
26. Prelude
27. Smile Again (Ft. DIXSON)
28. Reprise