How can you rewrite A Solitary Man?
- Powerful and dreamy
- Beautifully and I mean wonderful beautifully arranged
- Authentic and credible compatible with the wishes, thoughts and desires of the listener.
One of the first things I was about Jonathan Jeremiah's debut album was reading that he be able to probably produce this album according to his ideas took some part-time jobs to be able to pay, especially the brass and string ensemble for the studio recordings can. Not every label is now just no longer willing to invest money in any newcomer and as I read out that Jeremiah had the time of production of his debut not even a label.
This effort has now paid off? Winds and Strings come on this album in nearly every song to advantage and are terrific staged.
How good are the songs? Wonderfully sensitive, catchy, dreamy told stories make an album full of hymns to the simple life, mixed with a finely metered dose of Weltschmerz.
The latter can be felt especially on the first single release from the album, with the same name A Solitary Man. At the same time it provides a nice introduction to the music of Jonathan Jeremiah. The shallow acoustic guitar, which introduces dreamy goes immediately associated in absolute symbiosis with Jeremiah's warm and gentle baritone. That was about it longer needs this song not to its full effect to unfold. The atmosphere, which is transmitted to the listener here enough right atmosphere for each victim of broken hearts will always resonate subtly in most other songs of Jeremiah, sometimes with heartache times in the form of gentle melancholy.
Completely the strings unfold at the beginning of the album. As in A Solitary Man the first song If You Only already spread on beautiful way I feel gripped me immediately - its effect, which is expected to continue throughout the album.
The production of the songs also like it very much. The album was not polished to the high gloss modern radio music, but given the heat and saturation that has such a significant part of the functioning of this album. The voice, especially wind and strings unfold as maximum natural way. No instrument imposes itself obsessively to the fore, everyone has. In the arrangements into place, in particular the ensemble, which airs so often arranged only subtly but skillfully and perfectly and carries the album over long distances
With Heart of Stone Jeremiah creates the only album far snappy composition, but atmospherically impeccably fits into the operative part of the plate. The texts may be as to dismiss (You got a heart of stone. You got a heart That feels so cold) but also what makes the charm of this album from. No tangled metaphors or meaningless pregnant passages. Texts that everyone understands when he hears for the first time.
So Happiness tells of feeling of home and nostalgia for the happiness that flashes repeatedly in the niches of everyday life. Let me refer to the chorus:
I once found a recipe / for what to do to cure my needs / I packed some things, just what I need / only Bare Necessities / asked Mrs. Walsh to feed my cat / calling Lord Tate to Tell Him That / In going home where my people live / I need a little bit of happiness.
Whether this is really always so easy in life seis drum, on this train to jump on happy after the song has brought the first bars behind.
Lost in turn is an announcement to the better half, without which it is not easy even if life is not always holds only sparkling moments. Sure moneys tide and the high rents to / still what we have is worth it Again flashed the ability of Jeremiah on the simple things turned suitable to pack in his songs.
How we behave is half-heartedly then a underlaid with strings acoustic guitar tearjerker so one would probably call by definition. Fortunately music but no purely objective verifiable science, but does not go into the totality of all its parts or flat. In this case, the concept works beautifully and is on a level with the other songs on this album
See (It doesn't bother me) provides me as a huge fan of 5 / 4tel clocking a true feast for the ears. Somewhere easily schmissig between Heart of Stone and many more from the other groove restrained songs provides the piece is still some potential for co-rockers of the feet. Again unprecedented staged: Winds and Strings.
At this point I'm going to make a cut eventually I will leave the rest of the 4 and not mentioned here Album tracks the judgment of the audience. For me, these are of course equally worthy as the rest of the plate.
Overall, has one A solitary with its many packed in songs Stories nothing you would not have ever heard anywhere else but a lot of what is over and over again like sounds.
I love this album, even after 3 years and still hear it tempts me even after the 100th time to hear Mitt rooms. Jonathan Jeremiah is for me an artist who has made outstanding contributions to the preservation of good and simple music as hybrids between aufspielenden individual performers of the current millennium and classic songwriters for me. I can only hope that he will still pack plenty of other stories in such beautiful garments.
