Multidisciplinary artist JER announces It's Not a Joke, a debut album that refuses easy categorization. Pulsing with rhythm, memory, and reinvention, the record bridges South American and Brazilian percussive traditions with the introspective sensibility of Canadian folk creating a sonic landscape that feels simultaneously grounded and futuristic.
Conceived at JER Creative Lab and distributed by Lula World Records, It's Not a Joke transcends the traditional album format. Rather than a collection of songs, it functions as a living dialogue between ancestry and futurity. Percussion, voice, and modular synthesis converge within a unified sonic body, each element questioning what it means to honor tradition while pushing forward.
The result is a work that challenges listeners to sit with contradiction—to find coherence in the unexpected conversation between the ancestral and the experimental, the intimate and the expansive.