Jonathan Jeremiah

Jonathan Jeremiah – Horsepower For The Streets (Deluxe Edition) (2022/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:43 minutes | 493 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © [PIAS] Recordings Germany

Horsepower For The Streets is Jonathan Jeremiah’s fifth album, his second for PIAS, a label which feels like a good home for a soulful singer linked to a cadre of artists more readily associated with mainland Europe than his own island. So far at least. Much of the new album was written in Saint-Pierre-De-Côle, the countryside beyond Bordeaux, during breaks in Jeremiah’s first tour of France. Long walks and open log fires. You can take the boy out of Brent… and the continent welcomes him with open arms (see also Tindersticks, Scott Matthew, revered across the Channel, where the artistic tradition is less distracted by Londinium hyperbole). The album was recorded in Bethlehemkerk, a renovated monumental church in Amsterdam Noord, with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, a 20-piece string orchestra. There’s clearly a European influence at work here, a bond which has endured.

For fans of Michael Kiwanuka, Black Pumas, Villagers, Charles Bradley.

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Jonathan Jeremiah – Good Day (Deluxe Version) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:42 minutes | 526 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Soul, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © [PIAS] Recordings Germany

It may draw on the influences of Serge Gainsbourg, Carole King and James Taylor, but Jonathan Jeremiah’s Good Day is far from a time capsule. If there’s anything this singer-songwriter has learned over the years, it’s that ”timing is a feeling, and music is a feeling and when you get people playing together, it’s about that feeling.” Good Day was recorded at Ray Davies’s Konk Studios, which Jeremiah described 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.”
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Jonathan Jeremiah – Good Day (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 38:45 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Soul, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © [PIAS] Recordings Germany

The London based Brit’s fourth album, buthis first for PIAS Recordings, and one that eclipses everything Jonathan has achieved so far. The album showcases the remarkable depth of his craft, with his wonderfully weary, warm voice carving out haunting melodies amid uncommonly sophisticated arrangements from The Heritage Orchestra’s Ben Trigg. Recorded at Ray Davies’ Konk Studios, Good Day draws on the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, Richie Havens, John Martyn, Carole King and James Taylor.
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Jonathan Jeremiah – Horsepower For The Streets (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:36 minutes | 422 MB | Genre: Pop Rock, Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © [PIAS] Recordings Germany

Horsepower For The Streets is Jonathan Jeremiah’s fifth album, his second for PIAS, a label which feels like a good home for a soulful singer linked to a cadre of artists more readily associated with mainland Europe than his own island. So far at least. Much of the new album was written in Saint-Pierre-De-Côle, the countryside beyond Bordeaux, during breaks in Jeremiah’s first tour of France. Long walks and open log fires. You can take the boy out of Brent… and the continent welcomes him with open arms (see also Tindersticks, Scott Matthew, revered across the Channel, where the artistic tradition is less distracted by Londinium hyperbole). The album was recorded in Bethlehemkerk, a renovated monumental church in Amsterdam Noord, with Amsterdam Sinfonietta, a 20-piece string orchestra. There’s clearly a European influence at work here, a bond which has endured.

For fans of Michael Kiwanuka, Black Pumas, Villagers, Charles Bradley.
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