LA producer Joe Nora is well-known among the chill audience, working with acts like Kurt Stewart, Karavelo & Chester Watson, and having performed at SXSW and Sofar Chicago.
Also a film photographer, he uses his own photos to create the evoking visual identity of his music. Joe’s organic and “underwater” production, as he calls it, takes a nostalgic turn in his next EP, Field Trip Day – and a 2nd Stereofox Records release.
Soaking you up in its mellowness, the 4-track project tells a story of a rainy field trip day back in school – with those little moments that mean the world to a little kid. Staying true to his peculiar sound design and the use of natural elements, Joe kicks off the project with the single “Dreamgirl” (6 Jan) – hazy vocal samples, together with synths & chimes that feel like you’re in a dream. The focus track “Low Ride” carries Joe’s signature crunchy percussion & spacey synths, and the title song – his renowned clarinet & wind chimes on top of organic lofi beats. “Mostly Cloudy” closes the EP with jazzy boom-bap vibes the listeners already fell in love with in his previous Stereofox single “Boska”.
Joe Nora’s music has always had a sense of melancholy, calmness, and something outworldly, which can be traced back to his choice of alias:
“The backstory of my name is that before I was born my parents decided they would call me Nora if I was a girl and Joey if I was a boy. Not wanting to know until the day of, they called me Joey Nora up until I was born and they found out I was a boy. It is the kind of balance that I liked about it, the sort of yin and yang of my name and of me.”