Release date: 15th November 2024
LP Fire Marble Effect Vinyl + Black 7″
ALEXSLP2
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Release date: 15th November 2024
LP Fire Marble Effect Vinyl + Black 7″
ALEXSLP2
This is Northumberland songwriter, poet and raconteur Peter Alexander
Jobson’s debut solo album ‘Burn The Ration Books Of Love’
Recorded at his home studio and produced by Ben Christophers, the album is an
extraordinary collection that blends genres as diverse as country- favoured
psychedelia and cocktail jazz with the spirit of the Northern variety circuit. His vocals
answer the question: what i f Serge Gainsbourg had been born in the North East of
England? Inspirations include Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Scott Walker, blues and
country legends like Robert Johnson and Hank Williams, and Northern entertainers of
days past like Les Dawson and the great Jake Thackray.
Jobson made his name as bass guitarist and keyboard player in I Am Kloot. After six
albums and 16 successful years together the cult trio of Jobson, drummer Andy
Hargreaves and singer/ guitarist John Bramwell broke up after a fnal triumphant
performance at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the 2016 Meltdown Festival on
London’s South Bank. I Am Kloot were noted for their distinctive sound, the jazzy
swing of Jobson and built a fervent following both in the UK and across Europe,
culminating in a Mercury Music Prize nomination for their lavish ffth album, ‘Sky At
Night’ – produced by Elbow’s Guy Garvey and Craig Potter in 2010.
Heavily autobiographical in inspiration, the songs on ‘Burn The Ration Books Of Love’
are deeply rooted in Jobson’s lived experience, and in his geographical roots in
Northumberland, with its wild, windswept coastline, rugged hills and moors, and
extensive agricultural farmland where his family have worked the land for generations.
Tracklisting:
LP Fire Marble Effect Vinyl + Black 7″ Tracks:
Holiday (Live) / Mountain / The Night Of The Fire / Taxi Supplies / Go Go / Foolish Boy / Please Please Please / Home / Kesta / Just ‘Cause I’m Dead / Burn The Ration Books of Love