Jonathan Jeremiah new video for 'Mountain' album out 31/08

Jonathan Jeremiah today reveals ‘Mountain’, a soulful new single taken from his forthcoming album GOOD DAY, which is due for release on August 31, 2018 via [PIAS] Recordings on CD/LP/Digital formats.

“I remember listening to lots of stuff from the 60s and 70s where everything was ‘steam roller blues’, everything was grandiose and over the top, and I thought ‘there’s not much bigger than a mountain’,” Jonathan muses. “I like the metaphorical idea of chopping down a mountain to get to where you want to be. And some days it feels like that when you’re recording and mixing for eighteen hours, and you have to take equipment back to the hire company, and you’re pushing compressors and amplifiers up hills... it’s very literal, it’s climbing mountains and knocking them down”

Drawing on the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, Richie Havens, John Martyn, Carole King and James Taylor, the albumGOOD DAY is nonetheless far from a counterfeit time capsule. It’s instead about Jonathan identifying the appropriate manner in which to present his songs, and if there’s anything he’s learned over the years, it’s that “Timing is a feeling, and music is a feeling. When you get people playing together, it’s about that feeling. I can’t see a link between computers and a feeling. Computers don’t breathe; they calculate.”

Jonathan Jeremiah’s first, acclaimed album – A Solitary Man, described by the BBC as “elegant and soulful, a luscious artefact of 1970s songwriting class” – was released in 2011. It earned gold status in Holland, where it charted at No.3, and also reached No. 11 in Germany and Belgium. Two further albums, 2012’s Gold Dust and 2015’s Oh Desire, earned him further accolades, not least a phone call from legendary James Bond composer John Barry.

GOOD DAY was recorded at Ray Davies’ Konk Studios, described by Jonathan - who also produced it - as “a beautiful environment in which to get six or seven people together.” He didn’t stop there, however, cramming a 19-piece string and horn section into the room. “That’s what I’m trying to capture with my records,” he explains. “The sound of people together...”

Tracklist:

1. Good Day
2. Mountain
3. The Stars Are Out
4. Long Night
5. Deadweight
6. Hurt No More
7. Foot Track Magic
8. No-one
9. U-Bahn (It’s Not Too Late For Us)
10. Shimmerlove
11. Yes In A Heartbeat

Festivals:

• 01.-04.08.18 - A Summer’s Tale, DE
• 08.08.18 - Moods in Brugge, BE (SOLD OUT)
• 31.08 – [PIAS] Nites, Nachtleben Frankfurt, DE