The Essential John Moods

by John Moods

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1.	Dance With The Night 02:45		buy track
2.	Leap Of Love 03:48	info	buy track
3.	New Spring 03:30		buy track
4.	The Weight 03:12		buy track
5.	Take It Home (feat. Sean Nicholas Savage) 03:09	info	buy track
6.	Where In The World 04:37		buy track
7.	Train Ride 02:25		buy track
8.	Dark Wall 02:31		buy track
9.	Pawns 02:47		buy track
10.	Almost Gone 03:55		buy track
11.	Coastal Way 03:13		buy track
12.	Take Care 01:44		buy track
13.	Relax Your Foot 02:52		buy track

about

Alone in the world, we find ourselves. Inside ourselves, we find something to share with the world.

The Essential John Moods, a solo album in all senses of the word, is what Jonathan Jarzyna of Fenster found in himself during a summer spent hiking along the Iberian coast, and he now wants to share it with you. A mini-guitar on his back and a copy of GarageBand on his phone allowed Jarzyna to record songs each evening as he arrived in a new town after a long day traveling by foot. (He did, admittedly, add live drum tracks and some additional instrumentation back in Berlin.) The album preserves this peripatetic feeling, each song relating to the next as one city or village relates to its neighbor, its unique situation contrasting with the shared architectural vernacular. Blipping instrumental interludes (“Trainride,” “Pontevedra,” “Coastal Way”) even capture the disordered, delirious feeling of transit hubs and the sleep-bleared mystery of waking on an unfamiliar road.

“I just came alive completely” are the first words Jarzyna murmurs on “New Spring,” invoking the spirit of the album. He speaks not of the liveliness of manic activity, but the heightened, tender sensitivity of presence. It’s a fullness of living captured by the transition from the lush, jangling groove of “The Weight” to the spacious contemplation of “Pawns.” The dreamy echo of the 60s’ and 70s’ soft rock and folk troubadours suffuses the album, and the organ-soaked “Where In The World” even has a psychedelic tinge. But the overall effect is quite contemporary, from the back-of-the-nightbus lounge funk of “Take It Home” (featuring an amazing turn from arch-crooner Sean Nicholas Savage) to the mournful cupboard jazz of “Almost Gone.” “Dark Wall” sounds like a honkytonk ramble alongside a robot tentatively learning to play lap steel. “Leap of Love,” an early album highlight, passes over the listener in shimmering waves, a love song which remains a mystery even to its creator.

In the meditation tape coda “Relax Your Foot,” Jarzyna selects the perfect sample to encapsulate The Essential John Moods’ hopeful receptivity: the late Professor Carl Sagan reminding us that “despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.”

credits

released April 20, 2018

Elias Hock - drums on Leap of Love, The Weight, Where In The World & Take It Home
Ryan McPhun - backing vocals on New Spring
Sean Nicholas Savage - vocals on Take It Home
JJ Weihl - Voice over on Relax Your Foot
Music by John Moods
Lyrics by John Moods & JJ Weihl
Recorded on a phone while traveling in Spain and Portugal, then enhanced back in Berlin and in Poland.
Mixed by Luca Matteucci at Redroom studios, Italy.
Mastering by Felix Tödtloff in Berlin.
Liner Notes by Ted Howard.
Cover Art by Lucas Ufo aka World Brain. (Check out his illustrations and music, it'll make your day!)

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John Moods Berlin, Germany

John Moods is the solo music exploration of Jonathan Jarzyna from the band Fenster.

shows

Oct 11

Trafo

Jena, Germany
Oct 11

Festival du Bout du Monde

Vevey, Switzerland
Oct 14

Waxy Bar

Zürich, Switzerland
Dec 07

BERGHAIN / Kantine

Berlin, Germany

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