Jamie Woon - Mirrorwriting

jesus i'm sorry i brought this up at all JUST FORGET ABOUT IT OKAY

Sorry for causing a kerfuffle...the long and short of it is I wanted to like this album...didn't very much... He has a voice he can make wobble...thanks...goodnight...

Sorry just wanted to clarify that IN NO WAY do i link r&b with bland...The reason i was so dismissive was that best r&b can be so fucking trannsformative...Off The Wall period MJ...Instant Vintage Saadiq...Alicia Keys on "You don't know my name"...I know not cutting edge but just so great...

A point that may be too obvious to mention: within every genre there is music that can be described as "bland", music that studiously avoids taking risks, music that retreads what we've heard a hundred times before. The mini-debate above is really about whether some genres tend to be described as "bland" more frequently than other genres, which might show something about stereotypes associated with, say, r&b or pop. I tried to take the Google approach a bit further but I gave up as I don't think Google is fit for this use (see "Google u r crazy").

Though it's given me an idea for an experiment I might run...

Sorry for causing a kerfuffle...the long and short of it is I wanted to like this album...didn't very much

This. I think he's got the ability to do an amazing album, but this just disappointed.

i still quite like this, but im not passionate enough about it to mount a stirring defense really

It's probably still my favorite album of the year so far.

really liked 'night air', really liked the fragile, veiled menace in his voice. haven't heard anything on the album that approaches that yet, I'll have to give it a few more gos.

I really couldn't get into this, I can't pin point why either. It just doesn't stir any feelings what so ever in either direction good or bad. Its like it doesn't exist lol. Night Air is the best on it at the moment and I still like the Ramadanman remix a load better. Maybe its a creeper...

Lady Luck live video in a radio session + some other tracks in audio: http://www.stubru.be/media/herbeleefjamiewoonindelivingroom

Someone please remind me to try speeding up "Night Air" so that it sounds like an old italo record.

I heard a terrific straight house mix of Lady Luck last month, but it doesn't appear to be any of the ones that are knocking around on the internet.

i really like the hudmo remix of "lady luck"

oh i said that a few months ago lol

I've had no inclination to go back to the album since I first heard it hungover to death on the slowest busiest train from Brighton to London at about 6.30am with no sleep. Somehow these associations linger. I really love Night Air - I love the little "Thriller"-style bassline that comes in right towards the end.

btw he's playing live in Katowice right now and it's transmitted by Polish Radio 3. press "Słuchaj" in the upper right corner: http://www.polskieradio.pl/9/29/Artykul/425639,Koncert-Jamiego-Woona-w-Trojce

So did this cat just fall off the face of the earth or ??

I think he's been doing some production work but haven't heard a peep from him solo-wise.

that's strange... only this evening, i decided to dig out 'night air' for the first time since it came out and wondered the same as JF

I liked the song he did with Banks, but that's all I've heard him do since his own lp.

He was on the Disclosure album!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxD8HS5shIU

yeah that's actually my personal fav from the disclosure album tbh

Here's where I admit I never spent a ton of time with that Disclosure lp.

So did this cat just fall off the face of the earth or ??

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:27 Bookmark

The Lewis Taylor influence is v obvious across the span of the album.

― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 12:38 Bookmark

extending that analogy would make banks aaliyah tho so uh

https://soundcloud.com/woon/sharpness

New single prod. by Robin Hannibal from Quadron, it's so lovely and smooth, love it

YES

very nice!

tip-toed stevie wonder thing suits him

ah i feared he'd gone forever. great news!

LOVE IT!

kind of a Bobby Caldwell vibe

incredible performance imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0CjQjjy24

Indeed. That's what i call a groove. This guy has more soul in his voice than stevie wonder.

<3 Jamie so much but that's....quite a statement!

LOVE that fast pause just before the 2 minute mark.

New album is up on Spotify, haven't had the chance to check it out yet.

it's good!

This guy has more soul in his voice than stevie wonder.

ok lol.

been listening to this a lot though, it's nice. really like the live band sound, particularly because the arrangements are really meticulous and it sounds like they're emulating more of an electronic approach.

Mirrorwriting still holds up better than most things from 2011, as I'm discovering tonight.

Mirrorwriting still holds up better than most things from 2011, as I'm discovering tonight.

this is still true in 2022.

great headphone album.

Heard this on Martyn's Dekmantel mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvp8RWcj3M
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp16-music

like that a lot

revisiting this performance of "sharpness" & it's still awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J0CjQjjy24