MARC JONSON - Groova Tizmo! - LP - Vinyl [FEB 9]

LP - Limited Edition Black Vinyl.  

With his seemingly endless capacity for creating compositions which have an alluring quality, and which are often wrapped in a mesmerising arrangement that pays homage to those towering sound constructions made by Phil Spector, Shadow Morton, Brian Wilson and the likes, veteran New York polymath Marc Jonson is also deserving of household name status.

Involved in making records since the mid-sixties, Jonson’s latest long-play collection is a particularly special glimpse into a secret stash of recordings made between 1979 and 2012 in his tiny flat on Cornelia St., New York’s Greenwich Village, during the years we spend living (and surviving) there. These tracks are only now seeing the light of day, with many featuring Jonson at his melodic, awe-inspiring best; soul-baring, honest and vulnerable. Spanning these grooves are such delightfully told stories as ‘The Man Who Walks On Air’, ‘November Paint Brush’, the atypical jazz stylings of the instrumental title cut, plus the revealing light that is ‘The Moon’ and the magical, wide eyed beauty as conjured by ‘Ages Of Wonder’.

Jonson brings together a lyrical playfulness fused with melancholic cool and genuine heartwarming joy, conveyed in both his playing and vocalising; a combination seldom heard among performers today. - Lenny Helsing

Surviving the New York folk and punk scene … an outcast to both by my own volition … Most art scenes require suspension of innocent play like we did as kids in the schoolyard and become serious pretending not to be. Give me Arthur Lee, Van Morrison and Justin Hayward … the Stones, Dylan and Leonard Cohen. I’d turn on the day glow lamp in my room at home that illuminated my two posters and let these guys songs fill the air.

I was a lone coyote on any random moonless night finding sounds in my head and producing them to tape. Especially in Winter when the ground was hard and there might be a light snow all around. These kind of nights provoked the deepest places in my soul to speak up. I hated cold weather but it kicked my ass to create songs like no other time of the year. At 19 years of age, Arthur Lee was telling me about life to come via Love’s “Forever Changes”. This record is so captivating and musical. It comes off as one long story all interconnected.

Justin Hayward’s “Watching and Waiting” as well as “The Actor” could unblock any negativity in my world and put me right as I remembered my dreams again.

So like them … I too would have to make a guitar speak for my own feelings. To cover my blues up for a while here’s what works for me. - Marc

Tracklist: 

Side A
1. Honey Boy
2. The Man Who Walks On Air
3. Turn In On
4. Show Me Your Mercy
5. Anyone Can Call Me
6. I'd Cry
7. I Don't Have You

Side B
1. The Little Things
2. November Paintbrush
3. Never Fall In Love Again
4. The Moon
5. Ages Of Wonder
6. Ended
7. Lonesome
8. Groova Tizmo