Jim Jones All Stars: Your Arms Will Be The Heavens
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Jim Jones All Stars launch the second single, Your Arms Will Be The Heavens, from their forthcoming debut album which is due out in 2023. In distinction to their first single, this one has a a lot mellower vibe taking in additional nation and gospel influences, while nonetheless retaining that underlying depth which has turn into the hallmark of any Jim Jones efficiency.
Because the mud lastly began to settle from that dreaded pandemic which derailed the momentum that had constructed up round The Righteous Thoughts, Jim Jones was busy making contact with a bunch of outdated mates to try to fulfil a request to fill a slot on the Wilderness Competition over at Cornbury Park within the picturesque environment of Oxfordshire. Thankfully, all of the planets shortly aligned resulting in this inaugural gig for the newly shaped All Stars. This not solely supplied Jim the chance to lastly tread the boards as soon as once more, but in addition to rekindle his mojo which had been in lockdown mode for much too lengthy.
So a brand new rock’n’roll phenomenon was born and a brand new dye was being forged, not solely with some new faces which included a full horn part, however some extra acquainted aides together with long run side-kick Gavin Jay on bass and former keyboard participant with the Jim Jones Revue Elliot Mortimer. And with veteran punk guitarist Carlton Mounsher (The Swamps, Demise Want) and drummer Chris Ellul (The Heavy) finishing the road up, this was already trying just like the formation of yet one more formidable power of nature.
Louder Than Struggle witnessed this new starting again in April 2022 on the Trades Membership in Hebden Bridge which proved that every one the swagger, energy and depth you’d anticipate from a Jim Jones efficiency remains to be there in spades and the rollercoaster was now properly on its manner down the monitor.
The All Stars have been then drawn over to Memphis by an outdated buddy of Jim’s, John Getze, who was placing collectively a brand new impartial label, Ako-Lite Data, and wished the All Stars to be their first venture. So the wheels began to spin even quicker, the aircraft tickets arrived and Jim and the band discovered themselves recording their debut album within the depths of the rock’n’roll heartland of Memphis.
The outcomes of that recording session lastly began to filter by way of in October with the discharge of the debut single It’s Your Voodoo Working, a canopy of a music initially recorded by Charles Sheffield, with a usually hard-edged rhythm and blues vibe dominated by grinding rhythms and impolite horns. The brand new single, Your Arms Will Be The Heavens, takes a really totally different sonic flip with what Jim describes as “a Leonard Cohen meets Johnny Money-style gunfighter ballad.” This one additionally options Righteous Thoughts’s very personal Mal Troon on pedal metal and Stahv’s Solomon Ayre Rosenschein on lead guitar.
As ever with Jim and no matter band he pulls collectively, that is yet one more golden nugget in an ever-increasing treasure trove of sonic delights. Jim describes the brand new single as follows, “it is a darkish music thematically, however actually it’s about ascension…and realizing that, within the vital life or dying moments, you have got the facility to decide on what feels true to you, and never essentially what’s been prescribed.”
John Getze as producer additionally explains that “the entire vibe in Memphis was so infectious. This music took on a lifetime of its personal and melds nation, gospel and a little bit of that Spector Wall of Sound sonically.” And this actually captures the essence of the sound.
Following on from a blistering session for the Marc Riley present on BBC Radio 6 (which you’ll hear again right here as much as 24 December 2022), two additional singles are deliberate for launch upfront of a tour as a result of start in Spring 2023, with dates being introduced shortly. After which we will stay up for the discharge of the debut album, Ain’t No Peril, which is able to little question ship the large ranging, intense and style defying soundscapes which we now have now come to anticipate from any Jim Jones venture, and lengthy might that proceed.
Photograph credit score: Jeff Pitcher
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