France Jobin aka i8u is a sound artist based in Montreal, Canada. She has been active since 1999 releasing several albums on labels like Bake/Staalplaat, Room40, Oral, Atak, Vague Terrain and other independent labels worldwide. She has work along with Goem, Martin Tétreault, David Kristian and also Dragons Eye’s artist Tomas Phillips. “29 Palms” consist in a one piece only of 41 minutes long and it is inspired by her experience at Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. For this album i8u works with field recordings, analog devices and digital processing. Starts with a quite dark atmosphere unfolding a drone section out of thick layers of a sustained synth line, oscillating sounds and crackle noises, and ends with an inspiring melody.
– Guillermo Escudero