AUDIO (Samples) - Jo Oliver
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Since I have been singing for a relatively short period of time (apart from backing vocals…) and my artistic project “ Jo Oliver” has just recently started I would like to present some of my songs I pulled out of the drawer and which I will soon re-record and produce completely new as well as some demos. I hope that I will be able to provide a completed album in 2018…
Cool Playlists WITH Jo Oliver SONGS ON IT:
Shine On (you) on Spotify Shine On (You) on Googleplay Shine On (You) on Deezer
Soul-Rock (spirit of Soul & the power of Rock) Power Of Love http://www.listenspotify.com/en/spotify-playlist/7128
„Shine On (You)“: This song composed in 2017 is possibly a perfect example of what I musically like the best: shuffle grooves, distorted guitar riffs, rock & soul influences as well as various backing vocals.
A video is in the pipeline and when everything goes smoothly, I will release this song – it is about gratitude in the broadest sense – in late summer 2017...
“Testify”: a soul-rock song which I had already composed in 2001. Joe Cocker`s former record label was looking for new songs for him and I asked Richard Palmer-James (Ex-SUPER-TRAMP) if he had been interested to write lyrics for it – unfortunately our submission was too late… But nevertheless, MIKO (Ex-Neonbabies) & Thomas Wohlfahrt (the german StarSearch-finalist) interpreted this song – the latter version entered Hey Music Charts of the Berlin radio station RBB at number 12. Here you can listen to my own version (demo-version) as an acoustic mix (acoustic guitar, acoustic bass & drums).
Vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic bass & drums by Jo Oliver
Backing vocals by Shannon Callahan
“Waiting for my man”: A rock-like song out of “my drawer” which I will soon re-record. For the demo purpose I have recorded it quickly singing and playing all the instruments but I am going to re-record it properly when I only find the time.
This song is one of the very few which I have composed but have not written the lyrics…
Here you can clearly identify my preferences regarding the guitar sound and backing vocals…
Vocals, guitar, bass & keys by Jo Oliver
Lyrics by Gero Cassini
„Living in a madhouse“ (demo excerpt): It is so amazing how the technology has changed! Using this 8-track demo (recorded on an old Fostex audio tape machine) of my former project “Grooveattack” (together with the singer Patrick Quintin) I won the “Gitarre & Bass” (guitar & bass) musical journal competition in 1997. Nowadays, there is virtually unlimited number of audio tracks you can use thanks to the digital studio technology. Soon I will also re-record this song and sing it myself as well…
Composition, lyrics & guitar by Jo Oliver
