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TOBIAS JESSO Jnr – ” Without You ” Alt Version

Posted: June 21, 2015 in MUSIC
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Tobias Jesso Jr. told us how he’d made a conscious decision to tour his music alone, so his audience could decide whether they liked the tracks for what they were or not, and not be distracted by the cool guitarist, or whatever. He wanted to present his debut album, ‘Goon’, in its raw state. A lot have people have taken it, and so now the Canadian pianist has booked his first tour with a full band in November in the UK.

Tue. 11/24 – Brighton, UK – Concorde 2
Wed. 11/25 – London, UK – Shepherds Bush Empire
Fri. 11/27 – Bristol, UK – Thekla
Sat. 11/28 – Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
Sun. 11/29 – Manchester, UK – The Ritz
Wed. 12/2 – Leeds, UK – Burdenell Social Club
Fri. 12/4 – Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory

Preceding that is this fleshed out version of ‘Without You’, which now includes a string section, inspired by Tobias’ performance on the Conan O’Brien show. The track is being release on a limited 7″ by True Panther Sound, backed by non-album track ‘True Love’. From the new double-A side single “True Love”/”Without You (Alternate Version)”

Of the new alternative version of ‘Without You’, he says:

“The first time I heard a string section on “Without You” was when I played the song on Conan. Me and Ariel [Rechtshaid], who produced the song, both had strings in mind when we originally recorded, but weren’t able to put them on the album due to time and budget constraints. I’ve never been a big fan of alternate versions, but I’ve made an exception this time, simply because it’s hard for me to hear the song any differently since that performance.”

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TOBIAS JESSO Jnr – ” Without You “

Posted: May 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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Tobias Jesso Jr performs “Without You” on Later… with Jools Holland, BBC Two (5th May 2015)

In the past few months, the young piano man Tobias Jesso Jr. has made impressive appearances on The Tonight Show and Conan, and now he’s ready to take on TV shows elsewhere in the world. Jesso Jnr was a guest on the most recent episode of the BBC’s live-music show Later… With Jools Holland, where he played an entirely-solo version of “Without You,” the heart-squashed piano ballad from his very good debut album Goon. It was a lovely, spare rendition of the song, and Jesso Jnr made some truly intense piano-faces while he was singing it.

 

TOBIAS JESSO JNR – ” Without You ” and ” Just a Dream “

Posted: March 8, 2015 in MUSIC
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In the middle of 2012, Tobias Jesso Jr. bottomed out. Hard. Reeling from a recent breakup, the Vancouver native was riding his bike through Los Angeles, where he had tried—and failed—to make it as a behind-the-scenes songwriter for a few years, when a Cadillac blindsided him, sending him flying, his hand smashing down on the car’s hood ornament. As the driver sped off, Jesso looked down to see a gnarly gash and lots of blood… and then looked up to see a man pedaling away with his bicycle. “He literally waved to me as he was leaving,” says Jesso over Skype, still in disbelief—he holds up his palm to reveal an emergency-room scar in the shape of a “J.” The next day, as he wondered whether his hand would ever work quite as well as it did before, he found out his mother had cancer. That was it. He moved back into his old bedroom in North Vancouver, utterly lost and dejected, feeling like a failure.

With all of his musical equipment in storage back in L.A., he turned to his sister’s abandoned piano, an instrument he had never really played in a serious way. were marked by a youthful desire for success, when he started putting chords and lyrics together at that piano, things were different.

His forthcoming album Goon, due out next year, features production from White, along with the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, the New Pornographers’ John Collins, and studio guru of the moment Ariel Rechtshaid. It also boasts Jesso’s wonderfully plainspoken songs of heartbreak and apprehension, which bring to mind a less snarky Randy Newman or Harry Nilsson, or a more hopeful Nick Drake. On the classic-sounding “Hollywood”, he tells an autobiographical tale about going through the showbiz wringer. “I think I’m gonna die in Hollywood,” he sings near the end of the song, before unexpected horns swell up, suggesting an unlikely afterlife.

TOBIAS JESSO Jnr – ” Without You “

Posted: March 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Tobias Jesso Jr.‘s debut album Goon comes out March 17th.  Following the previously-shared tracks “How Could You Babe”, “Hollywood”, “Bad Words”, he’s offered up another album cut, “Without You”, which features Danielle Haim of Haim on drums. Ariel Rechtshaid produced.  he performed “Without You” in a La Blogothèque session. 

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Tobias Jesso Jr: Meet the new king of heartbreaking melody. When Los Angeles based Tobias first uploaded his demo track ‘Just A Dream’ in August 2013, we hailed it as coming from the same school as Harry Nilsson, John Lennon and Elton John. Tender, heartfelt and true, it’s safe to say that his forthcoming debut album, ‘Goon’ will become one of the year’s most acclaimed.
albums for sure , catch hime at some UK festivals this summer.

TOBIAS JESSO Jnr – ” How Could You Babe ” on the Tonight Show

Posted: February 27, 2015 in MUSIC
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Last night, Tobias Jesso Jr. took to his debut televised performance in the least subdued circumstances possible. Performing with The Roots on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, he showcased his ‘How Could You Babe’ track in magnificent, showy gusto.
Jimmy Fallon is a massive fan. He introduced the performance by saying: “I saw this song on the internet or something, and it just blew my mind. This is one of the coolest of songs, and the newest sounds – I just loved it so much.”

Watch Tobias Jesso Jr. play ‘How Could You Babe’ with The Roots, Debut album ‘Goon’ is released 16th March on True Panther Sounds
he will be performing at the Green Man Festival in August 2015,

TOBIAS JESSO Jnr – ” How Could You Babe “

Posted: January 24, 2015 in MUSIC
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“How Could You Babe” from the debut album “Goon” out March 16/17th, the more varied production he’s bringing to the table on tracks like this and ‘Hollywood’ without losing the distinct piano-ballad style that drew me in to begin with. The vocal performance he gives on this track is kind of incendiary for Tobias. Plus, the fuzzy, aged-film aesthetic to this music video is completely his.. all I can say is that his album is going to be amazing from what I heard!!! This guy’s voice is phenomenal!

TOBIAS JESSO Jnr – ” True Love ” and ” Hollywood “

Posted: December 5, 2014 in MUSIC
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After cutting his teeth as a bassist for chintzy pop-rock group the Sessions, Vancouver’s Tobias Jesso Jr. took a moment of crisis before coming into his own. Within two 2012 days, Jesso suffered a harrowing collision with a car while he was riding his bike and then swiftly learned that his mother had cancer — a confluence of events that sent him back to his childhood home. Soon after, he took up playing a piano that his sister had left when she moved out, and began writing simple ballads that were dirgelike out of necessity — because his limited instrumental knowledge meant he couldn’t play the parts any faster. This year, Jesso has churned out a handful of unabashedly raw, lyrically incisive demos via a flexidisc series for True Panther. Though they feature little more than Jesso’s reedy voice and a creaky piano, his debut album, “Goon” produced in part by ex-Girls member J.R. White — allows him to stretch out. On “Hollywood,” the record’s lead single, he adds a dreamy sigh of horn parts to the song’s once-sparse outro.

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Sounds Like: A young Randy Newman’s stripped-down demos,

TOBIAS JESSO Jnr – ” Just A Dream “

Posted: November 30, 2014 in MUSIC
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Vancouver native Tobias Jesso Jr moved to LA some years ago to try to make it as a songwriter. It didn’t go well. Failure, a breakup, a traffic accident and his mother’s cancer diagnosis sent him home, his tail between his legs. Paradoxically, success found him there, when Jesso Jr’s piano-and-voice compositions began to take shape, and he began collaborating with Chet “JR” White, formerly of the band Girls. Fast-forward several months, and Jesso Jr’s debut album finds people such as producer-du-jour Ariel Rechtshaid (Vampire Weekend, Haim, Sky Ferreira) and the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney on board. Jesso Jr gravitates more towards the literate American 1960s of Harry Nilsson. Jesso Jr’s experiences in the entertainment industry into succinct takes on a classic sound. KE

TOBIAS JESSO Jnr – ” Hollywood “

Posted: November 17, 2014 in MUSIC
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Tobias Jesso Jnr has shared a new single called “Hollywood”, his first studio recording. It was produced by Chet “JR” White of Girls, and can be streamed below.

Additionally, he’s announced his first-ever U.S. shows. They’ll take place this week on November 18, 19, and 20 at a loft located in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. House shows are also planned for Los Angeles in the future.

“Hollywood” appears on Jesso’s debut album, which will be released in the spring of 2015 via True Panther Records. It features production from White, the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, and Ariel Rechtshaid.