{"id":1891,"date":"2017-12-05T18:32:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2017-12-05T18:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:32:39","slug":"jonathan-wilson-over-the-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1891","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Wilson &#8216;Over The Midnight&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The first track shared from the long awaited JONATHAN WILSON album,\u00a0<em>Rare Birds,<\/em> due on March 2nd on Bella Union<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jonathan Wilson - &quot;Over the Midnight&quot; [Official Music Video]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KgD0B0puL_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of &#8216;Over The Midnight&#8217;, Wilson says, \u201cI wanted to write a song about a sacred place for lovers to exist and I named that destination, process, mood or feeling\u00a0 \u2018Over the Midnight\u2019. It\u2019s a place where nothing is savage.\u201d In one of Wilson\u2019s favourite lines on the album he sings, \u201cThis world it is burning, but don\u2019t it feel incredible?\/ Whisper in my ear and tell me what you see in the flames.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1892\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/j23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/j23.png 416w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/j23-226x300.png 226w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/j23-100x132.png 100w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/j23-150x199.png 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/j23-200x265.png 200w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/j23-300x397.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A highly sought after record producer, North Carolina native Wilson had a busy 2017 producing Father John Misty&#8217;s Grammy nominated <em>Pure Comedy<\/em> and touring arenas around the globe as a guitarist and vocalist for Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters (for whom he also contributed to the also Grammy nominated <em>Is\u00a0<\/em><em>This The Life We Really Want?<\/em> album). Wilson also saw widespread acclaim heaped on Karen Elson\u2019s sophomore LP <em>Double Roses,<\/em> which he recorded with her in LA\u00a0in 2016. But 2018 looks to be even more active as he\u2019ll be continuing on with the worldwide Waters tour, releasing <em>Rare Birds <\/em>and completing a headline tour of US and Europe in the spring. But first, he\u2019ll wrap up this year with a short run of shows in LA in December; performing three consecutive nights \u2013 billed as &#8220;Jonathan Wilson With Band, Friends &amp; Strings&#8221;\u00a0at\u00a0The Moroccan\u00a0in LA, CA\u00a0on December 21st, 22nd and 23rd. These shows are now sold outwith a handful of tickets for press available on request. A newly announced headline tour for March and April includes the below UK shows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 14th March\u00a0\u2013 GLASGOW\u00a0\u2013 Oran Mor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 15th March\u00a0\u2013 DUBLIN\u00a0\u2013 Whelans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 16th March\u00a0\u2013 LEEDS\u00a0\u2013 Brudenell Social Club<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 17th March\u00a0\u2013 BRIGHTON\u00a0\u2013 Concorde 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 19th March\u00a0\u2013 LONDON\u00a0\u2013 Omeara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 20th March\u00a0\u2013 LONDON\u00a0\u2013 Omeara<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although much of the album is comprised lyrically of meditations on a failed relationship and its aftermath, Wilson insists that <em>Rare Birds<\/em> is not really a concept album. \u201cIt\u2019s meant more as a healing affair, a rejuvenation, a reconciliation, for others, and for me. I wanted to balance personal narrative with the need I feel for calming, healing music. I think we need journeys in sound, psychedelic gossamer-winged music, to incite hope, positivity, longing, reckless abandon and regret. It&#8217;s all in there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jonathan-Wilson-Rare-Birds_Packshot-23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jonathan-Wilson-Rare-Birds_Packshot-23.png 551w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jonathan-Wilson-Rare-Birds_Packshot-23-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jonathan-Wilson-Rare-Birds_Packshot-23-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jonathan-Wilson-Rare-Birds_Packshot-23-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jonathan-Wilson-Rare-Birds_Packshot-23-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jonathan-Wilson-Rare-Birds_Packshot-23-450x450.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And, for this one, music critics will need to retire the comparisons to heritage rockers and Laurel Canyon troubadours as they\u2019re hardly useful anymore. Wilson&#8217;s new sound takes a synthetic\/acoustic, best-of-both-worlds analogue\/digital hybrid approach to achieve the complexity, sonic density and glossy hi-fi coating of <em>Rare Birds<\/em>. Heard for the first time on a Jonathan Wilson album are the sounds of synthesisers and drum machines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Neil Young, CSN, Dennis Wilson and Tom Petty comparisons for the first two records were flattering, but I didn&#8217;t ever really see it that way myself\u201d, he explains. More genuinely influenced by such disparate artists as Talk Talk, Arthur Russell and a &#8220;Sleigh Bells-meet-George Harrison kinda thing&#8221;, Wilson has made a \u201cmaximalist\u201d, high density album more influenced by \u201980s British production more than anything to do with Southern California in 1970s. It\u2019s a dynamic new approach for Wilson that calls to mind one of Peter Gabriel&#8217;s early solo albums or even mid-period Kate Bush. \u201cThis album is a hell of a lot more Trevor Horn than anything, you know, Laurel Canyon-related,\u201d he muses. Recorded during the same timeframe he was in the studio with Roger Waters, working on <em>Is<\/em> <em>This The Life We Really Want?<\/em>, Wilson felt inclined to expand into certain psychedelic and sound labyrinths. There are voices, sirens, children playing, and more enhancing spatial sounds, while musical compadres\u00a0Lana Del Rey and Josh Tillman (Father John Misty) appear as backing vocalists on &#8216;Living With Myself&#8217;\u00a0and &#8217;49 Hairflips&#8217;, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Says Tillman, \u201cJonathan&#8217;s talent &#8211; &#8220;mastery&#8221; may be more apt &#8211; places him among a rarefied class of musical auteur.\u00a0 You&#8217;d be hard pressed to find a comparison, or contemporary for that matter, that would do his recent work justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Rare Birds <\/em>was produced by Jonathan Wilson and engineered by Dave Cerminara at Wilson\u2019s own Fivestarstudios in Echo Park, LA.\u00a02018 will see Wilson playing nearly 100 shows all over the world with Roger Waters and performing his own headline and festival appearances wherever, and whenever he can fit them in.<\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1891&amp;t=Jonathan%20Wilson%20%E2%80%98Over%20The%20Midnight%E2%80%99&amp;s=100&amp;p[url]=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1891&amp;p[images][0]=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F12%2Fj23.png&amp;p[title]=Jonathan%20Wilson%20%E2%80%98Over%20The%20Midnight%E2%80%99\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1891&amp;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Jonathan%20Wilson%20%E2%80%98Over%20The%20Midnight%E2%80%99&amp;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1891\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first track shared from the long awaited JONATHAN WILSON album,\u00a0Rare Birds, due on March 2nd on Bella Union Of &#8216;Over The Midnight&#8217;, Wilson says, \u201cI wanted to write a song about a sacred place for lovers to exist and I named that destination, process, mood or feeling\u00a0 \u2018Over the Midnight\u2019. 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