Jonny Kosmo has given an exclusive interview to Jammerzine. I announce that because, when you hear his music, you will see. This artist is a true original. From his music to his life and everywhere in between.
And, in this interview, we talk about his new album titled ‘Pastry’, to be released June 4th on Feeding Tube Records and Dinosaur City Records (AUS). We also talk about his innovative video from ‘Pastry’, for the song ‘Fool’, featuring animation with personality by Peter Nichols.
Whatever your musical tastes are, I think it is safe to say that you will find space on your plate for Jonny Kosmo. His music comes from that part in all of us that wants to know our individuality and inner child. Jonny has found both and made them partners.
“There are two sides to every coin. “Fool” is about how our character struggles can also be our greatest assets. In this case, it is love and connection with another that allows the defensiveness and protection of the fool archetype to shift to that of a fool for life. I aimed to capture the movement from the rigidity of taking ourselves too seriously to the humor of being human. This song is accompanied by a video made by Kevin Kearney, Peter Nichols (animation), and myself.”
Jonny Kosmo on ‘Fool’ video
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LINKS:
https://www.jonnykosmo.com
https://www.facebook.com/jonnykosmo
https://twitter.com/JonnyKosmo
https://www.instagram.com/jonnykosmo
https://open.spotify.com/artist/6VyZH1zto2r7gkSYsUUBEx?si=Xm38MBHARQ-OW0AI3du-Cw
https://soundcloud.com/user-626752313
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An Interview with Evi Vine (The Week in #Indie Segment)
Ethereal alt-rock outfit Evi Vine presents ‘Sabbath’, a sweet and heavy preview of their long-awaited long-play ‘Black Light White Dark’, out now on vinyl and CD, as well as digitally. This powerhouse track features Evi Vine’s gossamer vocals and precise orchestration, cleverly woven together with bass guitar by Simon Gallup of The Cure and guitar by Peter Yates of Fields of the Nephilim.
Produced by Dave Izumi (Nordic Giants, Ed Harcourt, Magic Numbers) and mixed by Phill Brown (Talk Talk, Jimmy Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, John Martyn, Robert Palmer), this album also features contributions from several other celebrated artists. Apart from Simon Gallup (The Cure), this album also involves Martyn Barker (Shriekback, Billy Bragg, Marianne Faithfull, Goldfrapp), Peter Yates (Fields of the Nephilim), and Geraldine Swayne (Faust).
As a group, Evi Vine is joined by Steven Hill, Matt Tye, and David ‘GB’ Smith. Their music explores the dark elemental nature of the human heart, as well as environmental and post-apocalyptic themes. Evi Vine’s sound is both sublime and haunting. Creating a unique and uncompromising atmosphere, the effect is reverential, physical music, evoking a rare experience that is beautiful, sparse and deeply intimate.
“I know a lot of people are being shaped by experiences in our lives, ghosts of childhood, self-destructive pain and sorrow, all our personal struggles, doubt, and change. I can feel the earth dying and it makes me so sad. We write reflective songs about the circular patterns of man, and reflecting beauty and violence in the world,” says Evi Vine.
“We recorded live for the first time, which meant we were perhaps able to express the energy in the room together, vibing off one another and experimenting with new sounds, in a new space. Writing in the room was a new experience for us. Its the first time we’ve gone in with no finished songs. We had a few ideas and riffs but took the time to let them breathe and worked on them until we felt we had captured a special moment. After producing two albums essentially at home, this feels like a re-birth for the band.”
Evi Vine’s debut self-released debut album ‘…And So The Morning Comes’ was heralded as “the underground gem of 2011” by Drowned in Sound and championed by Simon Raymonde (Bella Union, Cocteau Twins) as his album of the year. Directed by Oscar-winning Nick Brooks (Fight Club, The Matrix, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Evi joined with internationally acclaimed photographer Patrick Fraser to make the stunning video ‘For the Dreamers’.
Their second album ‘Give Your Heart to The Hawks’ (2015) was co-produced by Richard Formby (Mogwai, Spacemen 3, Wild Beasts) and mixed by the legendary Phill Brown (Beth Gibbons, John Martyn, Talk Talk, Led Zeppelin, Robert Palmer). The album also featured Martyn Barker, Peter Yates, Tatia Starkey (My Vitriol/Lola Colt), and Billy Cote (Madder Rose).
Evi’s career has been filled with color. She formed this band while living in LA, quickly getting a support show opening for Slash at the Whiskey-agogo. She has collaborated with Graham Revell (SPK, The Crow Soundtrack), The Eden House, Tony Pettit (Fields of the Nephilim), and Peter Yates (Fields of the Nephilim). In 2016, Evi sang on Phillip Clemo’s ‘DreamMaps’ album, together with Talk Talk’s Simon Edwards and Martin Ditcham, subsequently making appearances on BBC6, BBC3 Late Junction and Jazz FM.
Most recently, Evi Vine contributed backing vocals on The Mission’s 2016 album ‘Another Fall From Grace’, which hit the UK top-40 album chart, and collaborated with Michael Ciravolo on the debut album from LA-based Beauty in Chaos, involving members of The Cure, Ministry, The Mission, Cheap Trick, The Offspring, King’s X and Ice T, among others.
In recent years, Evi Vine has toured with The Mission, Chameleons Vox, Wayne Hussey, And Also The Trees, Phillip Boa and The Voodoo Club, and Her Name is Calla. After hearing Evi Vine’s debut album and including it among his top five albums, Wayne Hussey invited them to tour with him in 2016 and subsequently with The Mission in 2017. Invited on stage to sing three songs by The Mission, the seed was sown and Vine joined The Mission as the featured vocalist for their 30th Anniversary Tour.
“The new album is intense – dark, layered, wonderfully atmospheric, fragile, and at times stripped bare – an album to get lost in….and then surface with Evi’s haunting and delicate vocals and the endless space,” explains Phill Brown.
The Cure’s Simon Gallup elaborated on his involvement in this project: “Hammersmith …me drunk …meet Evi for the first time I mumble that I’d love to play on a couple of tracks …don’t hear anything for ages than an email out of the blue …Three songs …feel nervous but really enjoy the songs …a day trip to the coast and a lovely welcome with dogs ..have beer and made to feel even more welcome ..worry that what I’m playing isn’t right or not going to fit in but enjoy myself and the warmth of everything ..have to dash as there is a prom on …a very bad hill start and a dash back down the motorway ..a quick day that had started 20 months before.”
LINKS:
http://www.evivine.com
https://www.facebook.com/evi.vine.music
https://twitter.com/evivine
https://evivine.bandcamp.com
https://www.instagram.com/evivine
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcPbQaScYhloAHQFURajuZg?view_as=subscriber
https://itunes.apple.com/mn/artist/evi-vine/433578453
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4pZRfgJDhjBjNuYQV09lLt -
Radio Retro (JammerStream One)
Radio Retro is an original show featuring historical events, as they happened, as well as your favorite shows and commercials from the golden age of radio. Each week we recreate an era in history using archived shows and advertisements from the days when your radio was considered a piece of furniture.
Radio Retro aired from 2012 to 2014 on JammerStream One.
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Jammerzine’s The Week in #Indie for 4/25/2022
In this Season 8 premiere we find the band Partisan return in triumphant form with a new single and video, ‘Animal’, plus an exclusive interview with frontman Stuart Armstrong. We also have exclusive interviews and new music with Animalweapon, Kate Cosentino, Tamar Berk, and Van Chamberlain. We also have new videos from The Mercy House, Lukas Rossi, Svvarm, and Cody Jasper.
About Partisan
Jammerzine has an exclusive interview with Stuart Armstrong from the band Partisan. Partisan are back with their first single in over a year titled ‘Animal’. And, to say the least, this is a clear evolution in the sound and future of the band musically and, as you will see in the interview, the start of the new Partisan.
In this interview, we talk with Stuart about the new single, as well as the video for ‘Animal’, which drops today as well as the future plan of all things Partisan. This is definitely a band to follow.
LINKS:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3zNHap1Yn9j3vM3wrp6tkp?si=rPmtZb8ISGGXYJgSWSfyZQ
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09T6BJPV9/ref=dm_rwpmb_pur_lnd_albm_unrg
https://music.apple.com/us/album/animal/1611251457
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9y8T9U1rjPs&list=RDAMVM9y8T9U1rjPs
https://www.facebook.com/Partisan-360533304938173
https://www.instagram.com/wearepartisan
https://twitter.com/wearepartisanAbout Tamar Berk
Tamar Berk has released her long awaited album titled ‘Start at the End’ on jammerzine.com. And we also have the bonus of an exclusive interview with Tamar about the new album as well as a great conversation with a legend of an indie artist. Having just come fresh off the heels of the 31st Annual San Diego Music Awards as a multiple nominee, Tamar showcases a clear evolution of an album with ‘Start at the End’. I have no other way to say this than this is a beautiful album.
Done as a series of life-stories and as a therapeutic diary, Tamar makes each song a personal and relatable journey that we can all not only relate to, but learn from. And in this interview, we talk with Tamar about those life-stories and how they molded into what became a very personal and introspective set of songs.
LINKS:
https://tamarberk.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/TamarBerkMusic
https://soundcloud.com/tamar-berk
https://www.instagram.com/tamarberkmusic
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcWZ8eEq0W5bxexMyWRi6Kw
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2A3VeCpyVPOSRW4woZXt8qAbout Animalweapon
Jammerzine has an exclusive interview with Animalweapon (a.k.a. Patrick Cortes). today also sees the release of his new album titled ‘Set Of Constraints’. Animalweapon is more than an electronic based music project. It is an immersive experience for the senses. And, in this interview, we get a solid glimpse of how and why that came to be with Patrick’s insight on, not only his new album, but how his music came to be and how it is evolving.
We also get that glimpse into the mind behind the music and what drives and inspires him from music to movies to life and everything in between.
LINKS:
https://animalweapon.com
https://www.facebook.com/animalweapon
https://twitter.com/animalweapon
https://www.instagram.com/animalweaponAbout Kate Cosentino
Kate Cosentino has released her new single titled ‘I Don’t Know Where It Went Wrong’ and, in celebration of this release, we have an exclusive interview with Kate herself. And what an interview it is! More like a good conversation between old friends, imho. With this interview, we get a glimpse at, not only the artist, but mindful entrepreneur, social media star, and just all around good person and how she tackles the creative process and mix between business and art.
LINKS:
https://www.katecosentino.com
https://www.instagram.com/katemcosentino
https://www.tiktok.com/katemcosentino
https://www.facebook.com/katecosentinomusic
https://www.twitter.com/katemcosentino
https://www.youtube.com/k8thegreat13About Van Chamberlain
Jammerzine has an exclusive interview with Van Chamberlain. With their new album titled ‘In The Sun’ dropping today, we get a behind the scenes glimpse at the minds behind the magic behind the music. And today we talk with Van about this new album as well as how everything VC came to be and the recording process of this first full length album during COVID.
Recorded during the lockdown and released via Very Jazzed, ‘Into The Sun’ is a uniquely retro style of sound with hints of post-modern and smooth #indie rock. What I hear, that is totally signature, is the harmonic mix of the beautiful vocal mix and chord progressions via guitar. This gives such a blend of energy and inertia that one can’t help but crack a smile when listening. Think the vintage sound of 70’s AM radio hits with the fuel of MTV’s ‘120 Minutes’.
LINKS:
https://www.vanchamberlain.com
https://open.spotify.com/track/1sq4IoKOY4VpnF2MbToOLA?si=1858fb8ac41f47b5
https://vanchamberlain.bandcamp.com
https://twitter.com/vanchamberiain
https://www.facebook.com/vanchamberlainbandAbout The Mercy House
The Mercy House return with a dose of original music and visuals in the form of ‘Redemption’. As the elation wears off of me, I get giddy like a little girl as I watch this, for the first time. The music has an evolved sense of that hard edge, gritty, yet melodic sound that The Mercy House has peppered their fan base with for years, but, we also get that natural evolution from artists that know their music and progress as life happens.
LINKS:
https://www.facebook.com/themercyhouseband
https://www.instagram.com/themercyhousebandAbout Cody Jasper
Cody Jasper has today released his new video for the single titled ‘Disco Lemonade’. To be honest, if this song and video totally sucked, I would still give it a good review just for the sheer coolness of the titled. Lets be clear, however, this song and video kicks all the asses.
A total future classic. Just saying the name alone demands that first listen. Having said all that, holy shit this song is dripping with awesomesauce fresh out of SRV’s nutsack. And, if you don’t get that, just keep listening to this monster-track until you do. You will. Or you won’t. Doesn’t matter. Because with ‘Disco Lemonade’ we have that stuff. That certain something not released from that bottle of funk o’ magic since the last of the original delta blues bars was closed down and replaced with a Dave & Busters.
LINKS:
https://www.instagram.com/codyalanjasper
https://twitter.com/CodyJasperAbout Lukas Rossi
Lukas Rossi has released the video for his latest track titled ‘A Perfect World’, from his upcoming album to be released later this year. Lukas has come a long way from his ‘Rock Star: Supernova‘ days. A very long way. In fact, I would say he has long ago found his sound and established himself musically.
With ‘A Perfect World’, we get a continuation of Lukas as he delves deeper from life and those affecting his life with meaning in the music and soul in the lyrics. We have an artist with an introverted heart and that heart is on his sleeve. This is what makes music resonate with most of us. We relate. We ingest. We make the song a part of us. This, to me, is what Lukas will be remembered for. Let’s listen.
LINKS:
https://www.lukasrossimusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/LukasRossiOfficial
https://www.instagram.com/LukasRossiOfficial
https://www.youtube.com/OfficialLukasRossiAbout Svvarms
Svvarms (Swarms) has premiered their new video for the track titled ‘Oceans’, from their upcoming EP of the same name. Filling the headspace with imagination and originality, Svvarms gives an earnest performance in a stripped location that highlights the music in a pure and true atmosphere.
While atmospheric, ‘Oceans’ also gives a storybook feeling for the listener and an almost dreamlike state to absorb what you are hearing. Svvarms show, with ‘Oceans’ that simply being yourself, musically, can be the best way to showcase your music. Signature sounding from that first note, there is that certain something that endears this song, and in other ways, the band into your collection as well as your heart.
LINKS:
https://svvarms.com
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