Sound of Vinyl

Joviale’s musicianship comes instinctually, informed by tone and emotion. The purity and rawness of Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone, and the sugar-coated pain of lovelorn 60’s girl groups like The Marvelettes, The Ronnettes, The Crystals and The Shangri-Las, are some of her formative emotional influences. To Joviale, these artists all sing of their own doom with a charming coyness and sincerity. Musical cinema also informs the way she tells stories in her lyrics, and the timbre of the percussion and brass in the African music that she listened to while growing up exerts a powerful tonal influence.