JONES, STONE JACK: Love & Torture LP
Stone Jack Jones "Love & Torture" LP (Western Vinyl)
Stone Jack Jones is a survivor. On two separate occasions the rare and
mysterious blood condition that courses through his steely West
Virginian veins almost killed him. Doctors couldn't fully explain or
treat his malady, but Jack pulled through, even after receiving last
rites on one occasion. While recovering from one of his near death
experiences he pondered the necessity of death, the torturous pain that
comes with the death of someone you love, and eventually arrived at the
simultaneously comforting and alarming conclusion that he was both alive
and dead at the same time. In 2014 he released Ancestor, an album
which The Quietus called "... breathtakingly insightful and poetic...".
Jack's new album Love & Torture was produced and engineered by Roger
Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinney). Rather than recording
everything over a few days or weeks in the studio, the two met up
sporadically over the course of many months, giving the songs plenty of
time to gestate and evolve in stride with Jack's life. Like a
collection of swirling and inviting mantras Love & Torture is a
sonic dialog that pulses with the all of the grace and bliss that has
touched Jack's incredible life.
Tracklist:
1. Shine
2. Thrill Thrill
3. Q and K
4. Circumstances
5. Ships
6. Disappear
7. Russia
8. Song
9. Who
10. Say Amen