Information:

Artist: Ernesto
Release: A New Blues
Format: CD
Cat no: exlpcd0504

Track listing:

1. Devil's gotta run

2. June 2001

3. Father

4. No More

5. Blame It On Your Melody (Prelude)

6. Socialist

7. How long I’ve loved you

8. Falling from Grace

9. If it be your will

10. Worth the waiting

11. Blame it on your melody

“Nice, unique and different.” Rainer Truby

Ernesto is 24-year-old soulful singer and music maker Jonatan Bäckelie from Gothenburg, now based in Birmingham.

Ernesto has been seen touring Europe and Japan with nu jazz/broken beat pioneers Beanfield, collaborating with Swell Session, and in action with Plej. In fact, Plej's music featuring Ernesto's vocals has also been heard on the prime time TV series Six Feet Under and on Jaguar car commercials in the US.

Not content with this hectic schedule Ernesto has also been busily working away in his own studio and has now completed a most extraordinary and unexpected album. Presented to Exceptional Records as a finished album, Jonatan had previously hinted at its contents only by saying it was something he had been working on in between his many other projects. The album has turned out to be a jaw-dropping, genre-bending world away from the Beanfield/Plej/Swell Session musical axis. "A New Blues" is a journey into a 21st century melting pot, where the main ingredient is unpredictably blues, but mixed with a measure of electronica and a good pinch of song writing finesse.

Ernesto's ground-breaking album "A New Blues" is just that - a 11 track introduction to a new way of recording and performing an infectious and highly contemporary form of blues - a new blues made by a daringly eclectic, boundary-defying young music maker who prefers to record his music without a net.

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Other exceptional releases by Ernesto:

Devil's Gotta Run EP - EP
A New Blues - CD
Blame It On Your Melody - 12"