Jesper_Munk-Claim-(Deluxe_Edition)-2CD-2015-404

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2015-03-10

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Artist: Jesper Munk
Album: Claim
Bitrate: 237kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Warner
Genre: Blues
Size: 136.31 megs
PlayTime: 1h 16min 28sec total
Rip Date: 2015-03-10
Store Date: 2015-03-06

Track List: Disc #1/2
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01. Courage For Love                 2:32
02. Morning Coffee                   3:35
03. Shakespeare And Heartbreak       3:51
04. Ya Don't Have To Say Goodbye     2:34
05. Soldiers Of Words                3:03
06. Clean                            3:21
07. White Picket Fence               2:21
08. 101 Proof                        3:31
09. Reeperbahn                       2:58
10. Guilty                           2:41
11. The Parched Well                 3:45
12. Smalltalk Gentlemen              2:47
13. Cold Waters                      3:30
14. Takes Two                        4:18

Track List: Disc #2/2
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01. Tree Of Time                     2:06
02. Death Don't Have No Mercy        4:02
03. Charly's Night                   3:04
04. 59 Bullets                       2:36
05. Timeless Throne (Live)           3:52
06. Everylasting Good (Live)         3:11
07. Lady River Song (Live)           5:06
08. Takes Two (Live)                 7:44

Release Notes:
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Eighteen months after the release of his highly acclaimed debut album, Jesper
Munk now presents his second: CLAIM, a musical journey from Los Angeles via New
York to Munich and the more rural surroundings of Niederding. This time Jesper
has spent time with the producers Mocky (Feist, Jamie Lidell), Jon Spencer (Jon
Spencer Blues Explosion, Heavy Trash, Pussy Galore) and Sepalot (Blumentopf),
who bring new enhanced features to his work, along with his own productions. He
has extended his spectrum as a singer, songwriter and guitarist with 14 exciting
songs from Rock, Postpunk and Glam to Folk and Soul without ignoring his Blues
beginnings. This variety is held together as a matter of course by JesperÆs
extraordinary voice, which has never before been heard in such intensity.
ôCLAIMö brings the listener into the musical world of a young man who wears his
heart on his vocal cords.

Time flew by for Jesper Munk. While still singing as a street musician, he was
discovered through radio and hailed as a ôWunderkindö with a voice from the
Mississippi Delta and pin up looks. His career took off. The first album ôFor In
My Way It Liesö attracted rave reviews from audiences and media alike and led to
three solo tours through Germany plus supports for legends such as Michael
Hurley, Willard Grant Conspiracy and Eric Burdon & the Animals as well as top
German acts such as Saint Lu, Bosse and Sportfreunde Stiller. The 22 year-old
Danish-German almost single handedly made Blues and his style of playing popular
for a new generation in Germany. It now seems hardly surprising that the music
press soon made comparisons with the likes of Jack White, The Black Keys and
Gary Clark Jr.

That however was just the beginning. In his new album ôCLAIMö he goes off the
beaten path, taking himself and the listener into unchartered musical territory
with the help of accomplished but stylistically different producers. It opens
with the Blues-Punk ôCourage for Loveö, produced by Jon Spencer in the legendary
N.Y. Hed Studio of Matt Verta-Ray on the Lower East Side. This is followed in
altogether different fashion by a Soul ballad ôMorning Coffeeö, more in the
style of Al Green or The Commodores. The ôimaginaryö James Bond soundtrack
ôShakespeare and Heartbreakö, produced by Sepalot, is accompanied with beats and
brass, while ôYa DonÆt Have To Say Goodbyeö picks up speed and takes us in J.J.
Cale-style to West Coast USA and the Kingsize Soundlabs with Mocky and his
resident session musicians.

A quieter and more serious tone comes with dark bass and keyboards in ôSoldiers
of Wordsö and ôCleanö, in which the singer offers a personal insight into the
world of his soul and feelings. ôWhite Picket Fenceö would have found admirers
among the post punk crowd of the late 80s Big Apple scene. It was recorded in
the Jon Spencer-New York sessions with Clemens Graf Finck von Finckenstein on
drums and Rainer Germann on Bass using analogue equipment from the 1950s and
60s.

Jesper Munk explains it as ôthe bittersweet conflict between traditional values
and an unavoidable break away from conventionality.ö Hints of Tarantino and
Glamrock sounds are evident in ô101 Proofö and ôReeperbahnö. Fans of the founder
of Blues-Punk will be interested to know that Jon Spencer himself provides the
stomping and clapping in best Slade/T Rex tradition for the song about HamburgÆs
ôMile of Sinö. Randy NewmanÆs late night ballad ôGuiltyö brings back some light
through a magnificent vocal performance, which together with accordion and
Hammond organ has already become a highlight of MunkÆs live set. As the title
suggests, ôParched Wellö brings sounds of echoes with reduced beats and a
playful arrangement followed by another rise in tempo in the Blues-Rock smash
ôSmalltalk Gentlemen. After the folky tunes of ôCold Watersö the listener is
taken back to New York by the more somber ôIt Takes Twoö - and may well remain
there for a while in a state of trance.

Has all this really been achieved by a 22 year old Danish-German from Munich?
You donÆt have to be a clairvoyant to agree with the views of his producers,
colleagues and the media, that Jesper Munk has a great international career
ahead of him.

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