JESSE MALIN // GLITTER IN THE GUTTER

feat. Bruce Springsteen

 

Der im Jahre 1968 in Whitestone, Queens, NY geborene Sohn russisch/polnischer Einwanderer strebte schon im Teenager-Alter eine Karriere als Profimusiker an. Erste Gehversuche unternahm er mit der Punk-Hardcore Band "Heart Attack". 
Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends überraschte Jesse Malin die Musikwelt mit einer EP namens "169". Zwei Jahre später veröffentlichte er das von Ryan Adams produzierte Album "The Fine Art of Self Destruction". Seitdem zählt er zu den herausragensten Komponisten an der amerikanischen Ostküste.
2007 erklärte sich Bruce Springsteen bereit, mit Jesse Malin das Duett "Broken Radio" einzuspielen. 
Der Song wurde auf "Glitter in the Gutter" veröffentlicht.
   

Tracklist - "Glitter in the Gutter":

Don't Let Them Take You Down (Beautiful Day)
In The Modern World
Tomorrow Tonight
Broken Radio
  mit Bruce Springsteen - Gesang
Prisoners Of Paradise
Black Haired Girl
Lucinda
Love Streams
Little Star
Bastards Of Young
Happy Ever After (Since Your In Love 2007)
NY Nights
Aftermath

 

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Jesse Malin - Glitter in the Gutter - Presseinformation:
Jesse Malin
Glitter in the Gutter


NYC’s finest returns with guest appearances from Bruce Springsteen, Josh Homme, Ryan Adams and Jakob Dylan!

One Little Indian / RTD
VÖ: 02.03.2007

Glitter in the Gutter is the new album from NYC’s Jesse Malin, an artist who has transcended tags like “singer/songwriter” for something different and largely indefinable.

Penned “a fearless storyteller”

(music critic Nigel Williamson), after releasing two critically acclaimed albums The Fine Art of Self Destruction and The Heat, Jesse has established himself as a career musician who writes songs that connect on so many levels that above all, he’s a healer. The songs on Glitter in the Gutter have kept the intimate slice of life and detail of his previous records but also work on a larger palate. Jesse writes locally but thinks globally and makes his songs identifiable so that they can connect with people in every part of the world.

On this new album, he writes about hope, struggles and smiles; about finding ways “to keep on keeping on.” Through his characters, like the woman who searches for salvation across the car radio dials in his song “Broken Radio”, or the kid hiding his face in the cereal box in “Modern World”, Malin points out “the little things that keep us laughing.” Malin is able to convey happiness and sadness in the same note. This happens throughout Glitter in the Gutter. He explains that Glitter in the Gutter is “just a record about people and the things we do to stay alive.”

The available time and iconography surrounding Glitter in the Gutter allowed Jesse to make the album he’s only hinted at with previous releases. “I’ve never made a record outside of New York my whole life—not even above 14th Street—so it was a different experience to be locked away in California,” he explains about the experience of recording the album in Los Angeles. “Right before we came out to [to California] I lost my apartment in New York, so I threw everything in storage in Queens and packed my life in a suitcase. So, yeah, this album had a lot of transient fugitive properties.”

Whether it was that type of personal impermanence or the uncertainty of our country’s future, Glitter in the Gutter is a wide musical spectrum. This album is an up-tempo, raw modern pop record that feels like a celebration of life as well as a rally to arms from the minute it begins with the anthemic opener “Don’t Let The Take You Down”. Glitter contains some work from guests of fellow musicians that Jesse has met on the road over the last 3 years, such as Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, who plays his signature guitar riffs on “Tomorrow Tonight” and Chris Shifflet of the Foo Fighters, whose iron fisted rhythms appear on “Prisoners of Paradise”. Jakob Dylan adds sweet sad harmonies on “Black Haired Girl” and there is a piano fueled duet with Bruce Springsteen titled “Broken Radio” that includes the sonic jubilee of Ryan Adams on electric guitar. There are also some other very special moments with Ryan (producer of Malin’s debut The Fine Art of Self Destruction, old pal and sometimes partner in crime) like his Latina guitar and back-ups vocals on the album closer “Aftermath”, and his blistering rock on “Modern World” and “Little Star”. Jesse remarks, “to me it’s all about songs, whether written by Elton John or Wilco or The Bad Brains”.

Jesse finds comfort in the transient life of living out of a suitcase and being under the hot stage lights sweating with the crowd. A Queens born NY native who now resides downtown Manhattan, he grew up touring in punk bands (DGeneration and Heart Attack). He will spend most of the year touring with his new rock band The Heat. Jesse feels that “being in a rock band is like being in a gang. Music should make you want to run through the streets with your pals, or make you want to fall in love or raise a glass.”

Of the live experience, he believes “it is equally, if not more important to the connection, especially in these days of enhanced home entertainment computerized myspace.com addictions. How else can you get people out of their houses today?” he quips. When he performs, it’s about interaction through participation. He gives his fans something to celebrate. When he sits down on the floor among the crowd in mid-song, everyone follows.

“We were born in flames, maiden names, suburban homes, make your bones Bite your lip, take the fifth, know your rights, it’s your life now Don’t let them take you down….it’s a beautiful day.”

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Jesse Malin - Solo Veröffentlichungen:
   

2000 - 169 (EP)

      
Brooklyn
X-Mas
Solitaire
Bad Friday
Basement Home
High Lonesome
Love Streams
Downliner
  

2002 - The Fine Art of Self Destruction

      
Queen of the Underworld 
TKO 
Wendy 
Downliner 
Brooklyn 
The Fine Art of Self Destruction 
Riding on the Subway 
High Lonesome 
Solitaire 
Almost Grown 
Xmas 
Cigarettes and Violets 
Brooklyn (Band Version)
  

2003 - The Wendy EP (EP)

      
Wendy
Stranger Than Fools
Death Or Glory
Hungry Heart
Cigarettes & Violets
The 3 Martini Lunch
Queen Of The Underworld (Video)
  

2004 - The Heat

      
Mona Lisa
Swinging Man
Silver Manhattan
Arrested
Since You're In Love
Going Out West
Scars Of Love
New World Order
About You
Block Island
Basement Home
Hotel Columbia
Indian Summer
God's Lonely People
  

2007 - Glitter in the Gutter

      
Don't Let Them Take You Down (Beautiful Day!)
In The Modern World
Tomorrow Tonight
Broken Radio
Prisoners Of Paradise
Black Haired Girl
Lucinda
Love Streams
Little Star
Bastards Of Young
Happy Ever After (Since Your In Love 2007)
NY Nights
Aftermath
 

2008 - On Your Sleeve (Cover Album)

      
Looking for a Love (Neil Young)
Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (The Ramones)
Sway (The Rolling Stones)
Russian Roulette (The Lords of the New Church)
Gates of the West (The Clash)
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (Paul Simon)
You Can Make Them Like You (The Hold Steady)
Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed)
Harmony (Elton John)
Rodeo Town (The Kills)
Wonderful World (Sam Cooke)
Operator (Jim Croce) – 3:53
I Hope I Don't Fall in Love With You (Tom Waits)
Everybody's Talkin' (Harry Nilsson)
Yoshimi (The Flaming Lips)
  

2008 - Mercury Retrograde (Live)

      
High Lonesome
Wendy
Hotel Columbia
Lucinda
Subway
Cigarettes & Violets
Since You're in Love
Helpless
Aftermath
Broken Radio
Going Out West
Swingin' Man
Xmas
Leaving Babylon
Megan Don't Know
It's Not Enough
Lady From Baltimore
Fairytale of New York
  

2010 - Love It To Life

      
Burning the Bowery
All the way from Moscow
The Archer
St. Mark's Sunset
Lowlife in a High Rise
Disco Ghetto
Burn the Bridge
Revelations
Black Boombox
Lonely at Heart
  
  

Mehr Infos gibt es auf der offiziellen Jesse Malin Homepage: http://www.jessemalin.com/