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Jono McCleery - There Is - out on Counter Records

Monday 05 September 2011, 00:28

Jono McCleery - There Is
(CD/Digital) Counter Records COUNTCD41/COUNTDNL41, 2011-09-05

At last, after a long and careful gestation, Jono McCleery is ready to release his first album with Counter Records, There Is. Jamie Woon recently described him in The Observer as "a really fantastic… singer-songwriter", but There Is proves there's much more to him than that. McCleery has taken his wonderful, timeless voice and the sheer skill of his songwriting and, with producer Fybe's talent for electronics, and Matt Kelly's arrangements, made a startlingly beautiful and contemporary record. Jono McCleery completed his first album, Darkest Light, in 2008. The record was self-produced and funded by fans, including folk-star Vashti Bunyan and BBC radio DJs Tom Robinson and Fiona Talkington. Jono has toured with the likes of Gil Scott Heron, Jamie Woon, Bonobo, Fink, Jose Gonzales, Little Dragon and the Portico Quartet and cites his main influences as John Coltrane, Nick Drake, Bill Withers, Jeff Buckley, John Martyn and Nina Simone. With There Is he has made a record of real soul and subtlety, one which fully showcases his wonderful voice but also works in its own right as a scintillating collection of music.

Jono McCleery - Wonderful Life - out on Counter Records

Monday 27 June 2011, 11:00

Jono McCleery - Wonderful Life / Garden
(Digital single) Counter Records COUNTDNL040, 2011-06-27

After his Tomorrow single released on Ninja Tune last summer, Jono McCleery returns with Wonderful Life, a beautiful, stately cover of the 80s Black classic. At the hands of McCleery and his producer Fybe, the whole tune is stretched out into an aching lament which ends up not a million miles from the work of James Blake, a tune where the space between notes is as important as the notes themselves. Jono McCleery completed his first album, Darkest Light, in 2008. The record was self-produced and funded by fans, including folk-star Vashti Bunyan and BBC radio DJs Tom Robinson and Fiona Talkington. His new album There Is is scheduled to be released first week in September.

Jono McCleery - Tomorrow - out on Ninja Tune

Monday 02 August 2010, 11:48 1

Jono McCleery - Tomorrow
(single) Ninja Tune ZENDNLS261, 2010-08-02

Tomorrow is the first single from Jono McCleery, a London based solo artist, who recently signed to Ninja Tune. He completed his 1st album Darkest Light independently in 2008 which was self-produced and funded by his fans, including folk-star Vashti Bunyan and BBC radio DJs Tom Robinson and Fiona Talkington. He collaborated with the Part Time Heroes on their debut album Meanwhile and is about to release a new album on Ninja Tune with electro producer Fybe.