UK's Jiminil has the voice of a storyteller. If you unexpectedly met him at a bar and the conversation was his songs you would tally up an enormous tab entranced by his vocal aesthetic that sounds rustic, a bit somber and a bit sage like. His latest, "Spider", is timely for me because lately I have been encountering these large 8 legged creatures. The track from the onset has a vast sound graced with folk underpinnings, 70's garden rock affections and the music with a bit of a country drawl even though Jiminil doesn't. The guitar sustains while drum beats shift and shuffle give the track a wanderlust feel as Jiminil tells stories. That aforementioned story teller voice give the song character, a cinematic sweep as the chorus carries different tones of psychedelia. There are a lot of things brewing, percolating and erupting here in beautiful ways.
The Nottingham based artist shares:
"Spider is a song about discovering yourself in a social or political landscape that your ignorance or tolerance has been complicit in creating, and the disillusionment that follows which in turn finds you further alienated from where you find yourself. Sometimes your apathy can allow the cobwebs to take up all the corners, and through a blasé indifference the spiders can take over the house. Amidst this spooky atmosphere there is a slight sense of a positivity in facing up to your fears and living in accord with the spiders as best we can, rather than bowing to their venomous ways."
-Robb Donker Curtius
* * *
mailchi.mp
bandcamp
Jiminil is a melting pot of tender, pastoral folk and gloomy indie-rock tinged with psychedelia, blurring the lines of these with jazz sensibilities. Influence can be seen in the guitar stylings of Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, John Fahey, John Martyn, and in the mosaic songwriting/arrangement styles of Van Morrison, Tim Buckley, Joni Mitchell & Terry Callier. While collaborating with some of the finest musicians in the midlands, the project brings arrangements that feel like a dense, syrupy thicket.
No comments:
Post a Comment