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My name is Jont...
17/07/2008 22:13:03 By Jont
My name is Jont....I have just finished making an album I have waited all my life to make....long journey....from writing poems, travelling across america and interviewing poets, having dinner with Ginsberg in his nyc apartment, seeing The Grateful Dead live on New Years Eve in a tie dye bandana....to Manchester....having poems written large on walls with no name or explanation...tiring of having no-one understand the tiny blocks of words on the page and feeling more of a challenge in playing a song to 20 people in a room, getting something actually across, there and then....to getting my first band together, not knowing what all that was about, beginning to learn...moving to London....man in a van....gigs, setting up a night in a venue....claiming it explored the "invisible conversation between audience and performer"....different bands, recording for the first time, writing more, "big" things almost happening for my music, then not, then almost, then not, moving to America....meeting a maverick genius called Tony Meilandt who inspired and enthused and helped manifest a life for me in Los Angeles...meeting the people that have shaped my life, who I am....dear friends who I am so grateful for...returning to the UK....the last year, an exhilarating blend of epiphany and confusion...and now: streaming feathers and light, that night I started organising (UNLIT) a fully fit animal, a life-force in itself, bringing people together, me all too happy to provide whatever form or impetus or food it needs to continue...feeding myself from the joy of it and in turn learning more, listening more....and this album and these songs, the reflection of that in album form.
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If you're interested...
23/05/2006 15:04:57 By
...in hearing a new collaboration of mine, buy the new Breaks Co-op album, just released out here by EMI....made by my friends Hame and Zane, I co-wrote and sang the song Last Night. They are over touring this and next month(info www.breaksco-op.com)
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About me...
23/05/2006 15:03:09 By
"I left London for New York in April 2003 after being in various bands, having had different managers and deals fall through. I was going to go to L.A. but I'd fallen in love with a girl who worked behind the bar at a pub in Archway who'd just moved to New York. So, telling myself and my friends that I was going to find a new manager and to set up my night UNLIT in Brooklyn, I went to try to track her down.
"‘One Long Song’, my debut mini-album, is a taster, an introduction to a larger collection of songs, sparked by that decision to leave. In these six tracks there is birth (of my niece, in ‘You Can Be The Stars’), death (of my manager and friend Tony Meilandt in ‘Can't Turn The Sea Off’), a break up, loneliness and epiphany.
"Now further into this adventure, I have a flat in L.A. (you see I got there eventually) and UNLIT has become a hybrid of a house-party and a gig, featuring various different invited performers in changing locations around the city most Friday nights. Also I met up with some guys who saw the world the same way and were able to make my music sound like it should, called Keefus, Sam and John, or - Green, Music and Gold."
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