Jonathan Brinkley
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Jonathan Brinkley

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon, United States
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"The Concert in the Living Room"

Note: see google translation below

PER COUCHSURFING UM DIE WELT
Das Konzert im Wohnzimmer
von Liesa König & Hans Jakob Rausch
Donnerstag, 18. August 2011
Wer billig um die Welt reisen will, hat durch das Internet inzwischen viele Möglichkeiten. Eine davon: Couch Surfing. Das bedeutet: „Umsonst auf fremden Sofas übernachten“. Doch was passiert, wenn ein Musiker seine Tour über Couch Surfing organisiert? Dann kommt das Konzert direkt ins Wohnzimmer.

Es ist Mittwochabend, halb zehn in der Könneritzstraße in Leipzig. Im WG-Zimmer von Malena Rottwinkel sitzen etwa zwanzig junge Menschen auf Kissen und Matratzen und blicken gespannt auf den kleinen, bärtigen Mann mit der Gitarre. Jonathan Brinkley ist Musiker und hat den weiten Weg aus dem amerikanischen Portland nach Europa angetreten. Seine Reisemethode? Couch-Surfing!

Seit acht Wochen tourt Jonathan gemeinsam mit seiner Freundin Jennifer durch Europa und gibt private Konzerte in Wohnzimmern. Sie organisiert die Auftritte, er macht die Musik. Die Erfahrungen, die die beiden dabei gemacht hätten, seien durchweg positiv, ezählt Jonathan. "Wir haben uns richtig gut mit den Leuten verstanden, bei denen wir gespielt haben. Wir sammeln also Freunde, wir Erinnerungen."

Auch Gatsgeberin Malena hat schon viele Erfahrungen mit Couchsurfing gemacht. Mit 19 ist sie das erste Mal auf diesem Weg durch Australien gereist. Jetzt stellt sie ihr Sofa selbst anderen Leuten zur Verfügung. Dies gebe ihr die Möglichkeit, so Malena, die Welt zu sich nach Hause zu holen.

Für Jonathan bedeutet diese Art des Reisens auch, einen ganz speziellen Blick auf ein fremdes Land zu gewinnen: "Was ich wirklich toll finde am Couchsurfing, ist die Möglichkeit, nicht nur irgendein Tourist zu sein." Es erlaube ihm, so Jonathan weiter, intensiv in den Or einzutauchen, an dem er sich befinde.

Im Anschluss an ihr Konzert in Leipzig fahren Jonathan und Jennifer weiter nach Berlin. Welche Städte dann folgen, das wissen auch die beiden noch nicht. Denn das entscheiden die User bei CouchSurfing.org. Was jedoch sicher ist: Auf ihrem Weg durch Europa werden die beiden noch viele Erfahrungen und Geschichten sammeln.

www.jonathanbrinkley.bandcamp.com

www.couchsurfing.org

google translation (not always completely accurate!)


PER COUCH SURFING AROUND THE WORLD
The concert in the living room
Liesa of King & Hans Jacob Rausch
Thursday 18 August 2011
Who wants to travel cheaply around the world through the Internet are now many possibilities. One of them: Couchsurfing. That means "staying in vain to foreign sofas". But what happens when a musician organizes his tour through Couchsurfing? Then the concert comes directly into the living room.

It is Wednesday evening at half past nine in the Könneritzstraße in Leipzig. In-room flat of about twenty young people Malena Rottwinkel sit on pillows and mattresses, and look forward to the small, bearded man with the guitar. Jonathan Brinkley is a musician and has begun the long journey from the American Portland to Europe. His method of travel? Couch Surfing!

For eight weeks Jonathan and his girlfriend Jennifer is touring through Europe, giving concerts in private living rooms. It organizes concerts, he makes the music. The experiences that the two had made it, were consistently positive, ezählt Jonathan. "We really got on well with the people with whom we have played. So we gather friends, we are memories."

Also Gatsgeberin Malena has already made a lot of experience with couchsurfing. At 19, she has traveled the first time on this journey through Australia. Now she makes her own bed other people have. This will give her the opportunity, so Malena, the world bring to your home.

Jonathan does this kind of travel also to win a very special view of a foreign country: "What I'm really excited about the couch surfing is the ability to be not just another tourist." It allowed him to dive further said Jonathan, in the intensive Or where he was.

Following their concert in Leipzig, Jonathan and Jennifer travel to Berlin. Which cities will follow then that the two still do not know. For that, users decide when CouchSurfing.org. What is certain however: on their way across Europe will gather the two are many experiences and stories.

www.jonathanbrinkley.bandcamp.com

www.couchsurfing.org
- Liesa of King & Hans Jacob Rausch


"Jonathan Brinkley plays concerts in Living Rooms!"

Il concerto di Jonathan è in salotto!

Roma. C'è un nuovo modo di fare musica live: fare concerti nel salotto di persone conosciute su internet! Noi siamo andati a sentire Jonathan Brinkley, un cantautore americano che in cambio di un concerto si fa ospitare sui divani di giovani di mezza Europa, conosciuti tramite il sito coachsurfing.org. Servizio di Fabio Butera.

Google Translation: (please note that google translation is not completely accurate)

The concert is in Jonathan's living room!

Rome. There is a new way of live music: playing concerts in the living room of people known on the internet! We went to hear Jonathan Brinkley, an American singer-songwriter in exchange for a concert you sleep on the sofas of youth from all over Europe, known by the site coachsurfing.org. Fabio Butera service.



- Fabio Butera


"All day lovers, lull listeners on first LP"

"True to their name, love songs abound on 'Sounds of You'. So heartwarming and uplifting, in fact, that they could easily be mistaken for gospel music at times…Indeed, the melding of their voices could only be described as beautiful." - Drew Gemmer, Portland Sentinel (May, 2008)
-excerpt. The rest of the review can be read at http://www.portlandsentinel.com/node/1224 - Portland Sentinel


Discography

"Unguarded Heart" - released June 2016

"Everything's a Phoenix" - released on May 30, 2011

"Sounds of You" - April 2008. Duo project with Elizabeth Joy Zarek under the name "All Day Lovers"

"I was born this way: my birthday at mississippi studios" - released January 2006. Live recording.

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Based in Portland, Oregon and traveling the country sharing songs, it is my hope to explore the outer reaches of what a song can be. I want to dive in, get messy, and leave it all on the stage. That means writing from the most honest place I can access.