RARE BIRDS album by Jonathan Wilson (Bella Union, 2018)
JONATHAN WILSON LIVE AT THE BRONSON CLUB, RAVENNA 20th April 2018
“There’s no fear, no hatred, no killers, no guns”. This is the hippy dream of Jonathan Wilson – songwriter, producer, musician and all round gentle spirit. It comes from a line in ‘Over The Midnight’, one of the many highlights from his latest feel good solo album ‘Rare Birds’.
Mellow LA vibes usually leave me cold but this record has really warmed my soul this year.
We are so resigned to expressions of cynicism and negativity that it takes music like this to remind us that it doesn’t necessarily have to be like this. Wilson admits that he wrote the ELO-esque ‘There’s A Light’ as a conscious antidote to the darkness that surrounds and inhibits us. Continue reading
