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"Woven throughout is an undeniable sheen of intellect and meticulous detail that stands in stark contrast to the moronic dross that typifies hip hop today" Inpress (melbourne)
LOOPS OF LOVE is the first album Jody Lloyd has produced without input from other musicians, thus his usual Trillion moniker is being set aside in favour of his birth name, making Loops of Love his first official debut solo album.
LOOPS OF LOVE was inspired by a collection of images produced by Melbourne photographic artist Devika Bilimoria. The 12 delicate images correspond to the 12 personal and intricately produced tracks by Lloyd.
Lloyd's recent relocation to Melbourne has found him amongst many artistic disciplines where creative exchange is almost limitless. LOOPS OF LOVE was manifest whilst basking, not only in the music scene, but also in the visual arts. With equal precedence, the artwork and the album will occupy the gallery space.
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The return of Jody O Lloyd by Daphne Noel (presto magazine)
10 km of coloured thread, 6000 reprinted Polaroid photographs, 28 square metres of recycled card, 2 rubber stamps, 1 crochet hook an onion and a whole lot of love. Jody O Lloyd’s debut album, Loops of Love, is not only timeless it is time consuming. With approximately 10 minutes and 20 inconspicuous fingerprints devoted to the assemblage of each album, Jody Lloyd and his inventive companion, Devika Bilimoria, compile a neat work of art.
This tantalising work consolidates music and visual art within one novel pouch. It is tactile, audible, and visual. If you’re lucky you can smell the sweet scent of labour, and if you were that way inclined, it could also be consumed.
In the mouth of each CD pouch rests an onion stamped disc and a tight stack of 12 coloured cards detailed with exquisite images and thoughtful text.
Eggs, oranges, loops, spheres, ‘o’s, circles and the like were in question and enjoyment when Jody and Devika met. Both having a keen interest in loops, musically and philosophically, they created an intimate language that then became the basis of the music and album art.
The loop themed images within the album are made with a unique Polaroid process, where Devika constructs her own negatives from found object (i.e. peas, foil, sections of vegetables) and liquids. As she speaks of her camera-less photography she states, “the notable thing about these images is that it is a photograph with a pea not of a pea…they seem to be a distant relative of the Photogram.” With hundreds of images to her name, Devika has been nurturing this ingenious analogue process for five years with numerous group and self-curated exhibitions in Australia, and is here to exhibit her art for the first time in NZ in conjunction with Jody’s music.
In Jody’s eclectic style Loops of Love is the yin to his Silent Invisible’s (Trillion) yang. Both albums are cleverly pieced together with seamless ingenuity. The funk, hip-hop, blues, electronic and soul in Loops of Love are elegantly woven together with Jody’s classic beat know how. It is a stunningly crafted album reminiscent of DJ Shadow, Beck, Buck 65 and RJD2, where your body and/or mind moves gracefully from the couch to the dance floor.
Jody is prolific but seldom heard. For 20 years he has been creating music but it has often fallen upon deaf ears. “Making music and running She’ll Be Right Records was often a thankless task”, he says, so he relocated to Melbourne and found a space with some fresh inspiration and support to create music for himself. Jody states, “the intention of this album was for the audience of one, and now that it is complete I can share it knowing that my motivations were genuine”.
You can purchase a handcrafted album and limited enlarged prints of the beautiful images by Jody and Devika at their Loops of Love exhibition as apart of NZ music month in May.
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