Music for the messes
One sided single and story (with a surgical) theme of a person who has put themselves out there – only to be ripped apart by someone who does not care enough – now begging to be left alone to lick their wounds. Somewhat an homage to Depeche Mode, a band who’s magnificent legacy to synth music needs no further comments. The blogg Popmuzik interviewed Jack about the song and the story behind it. Read about it in Swedish here!
Released on the 28th of July – a mix of three very different but also dark songs.
A new EP with three songs will be released in July 2022. All three tracks are built around stories of malfunctional relationships of different kinds.
In the middle of the summer Jack decided to release four new songs. This time through the lenses of other people’s/thing’s eyes – a young LGBT+ person, a handgun, a small servant robot and an outkast.
Album out on Spotify, Apple Music and TIDAL now!
01 – Rise and shine
02 – Dress up
03 – He says She says
04 – Random sounds
05 – You can’t break me
06 – Call your friends
07 – Place to be
08 – LUCY (inhale/exhale)
09 – No you No me
10 – Haunted
11 – 8848 Album version
12 – Are You Being Home
The album features long time collaborator Josefine Wassler (backing vocals) on six tracks, Daniel Trobell (drums), Jonne Bentlöv (trumpets), Andreas Andersson (saxes) and Thomas von Wachenfeldt (violins). Website of Agnés Trachet here.
Together with a successful live performance the single ”8848” was released on the 19th of October.
On the 19th of October Sad Jack will celebrate the release of the new single ”8848” with a live gig at Restaurang Landet in Sthlm. Free entrance – venue doors open at 20.00.
Joining Jack on stage are some of the musicians that have contributed to earlier tracks, such as Josefine Wassler (vocals, percussion), Daniel Trobell (drums) and Johan Nyberg (bass), as well as some other good friends – Tias Engvall (guitars, vocals) and Magnus Funemyr (vocals, keyboards, percussion).
The performance will be filmed and multitrack recorded for future purposes. Very very welcome!
The three track EP ”Songs So Summerish” is now released. It contains two brand new tracks and, as a bonus, a cover of the first track on 80’s synth band Alphaville’s debut album – ”A victory of love”. Buy it on iTunes, Amazon or stream on Spotify, Tidal et cetera
Strings on ”Place to be” are played by Thomas von Wachenfeldt and as usual all tracks are mastered by Anders Hellgren/Music in the making.
”Songs so summerish” will feature a photo taken on Västerbron in Stockholm at approx. 03.45 on a Sunday morning after a gig. Aiming to catch both the beauty and the sadness of those late summer nights as well as the different emotions in the songs of the EP.
An EP with three songs will be released in the beginning of July. The track list is as follows:
The first two tracks are newly written, the first one featuring Thomas von Wachenfeldt on strings and the third one is a cover of the classic opening track from legendary synth band Alphaville’s debut album from 1984.