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Montreal artist and songwriter Jonah Yano shares a new single “Someone Asked Me How I’ve Been.” The latest offering from his forthcoming album Jonah Yano and The Heavy Loop, the new song takes the sonic framework of Jonah’s roaming, improvisational 30-minute track “The Heavy Loop” and distills it into a focused track that opens with Jonah’s guitar and widens its scope as more of the band joins in. At its core, the new song centers on the confusion of being two things at once – a reflection from the time Jonah spent touring in Japan for the first time, where he grappled with being a mixed Japanese person in Japan, as well as feeling lonely and aimless at a time when he imagined he’d be living a dream of sharing his music in the place he’s from.

“Someone Asked Me How I’ve Been” serves as a testament to the collaborative environment Jonah set out to create when making this album, one open to improvisation and melding the collective visions of each member in his live-ensemble-turned band: Christopher Edmonson, Benjamin Maclean, Leighton Harrell, Felix Fox-Pappas and Raiden Louis. Jonah remains at the helm as the record’s conductor and central figure, but draws on the strengths and inspirations of each member of the band to craft an album that evolves as the musicians involved work together to achieve a collective vision.

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