Jo Young
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Jo Young

Band Folk Singer/Songwriter

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"music review"

“Jo’s music would hold its own against artistes who are very popular over here right now like KTTunstall, Norah Jones, Kate Melua”
Richard Moore –music reviewer and guitarist, Sea Monster, Bournemouth UK
- Richard Moore - Sea Monster


Discography

Angels in the Mud - 5 track EP released July 2005 Produced by Latis

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Bio

"I personally believe that Jo's voice is one of the most perfect pure tonal voices I've heard in a long time.... Jo Young presents us with enough variety of composition and instrumentation (that at points begins to approach small-chamber orchestration) to leave you feeling that these songs are crafted to the fine polish of commercial presentation without lacking any needed ingredients or existence of superfluous fluff"
Billy Shaw, avante garde Jazz musician (!Sassy!)

My songs have been described as musical tone poems that even people who don’t speak English can enjoy.

They are some of the stories of my life. These folk/pop songs were written between 1998 and 2005 and form a narrative of each stage of my journey.

Baby Boy was written after the birth of my son in 2003. Leaving full time work to be a stay at home mum with a new baby felt like being shunted into a parallel universe. The sudden social isolation, steep learning curve and almost total sleep deprivation resulted in my suffering from postnatal depression. Luckily, with the support of my incredible husband, a few helpful friends and some wonderful community organisations (Tresillian Foundation and the Parent Infant Foundation of Australia) I got through it.

I hope that hearing Baby Boy might help other parents going through the same transition. If, for them, becoming a parent it isn’t all joy and light like a nappies advertisement, then they aren’t alone. I also hope to be able to give back to those community organisations that supported me by sharing any royalty proceeds from this song with them.

My debut EP, Angels in the Mud was originally created as a demo, recorded in the home studio of a friend. It is produced and arranged by Latis, a music whiz from the UK currently living in Australia. He also plays guitar on Baby Boy and Little Quivers.

Latis did such a fantastic job of breathing a contemporary spirit into my songs that we decided it was definitely good enough for commercial release. So we decided to have it professionally mastered by Paul Bryant at Sony BMG in Sydney

I am currently working on my first full length album at Laneway Studios in Lismore with Peter Lane. I hope to have it finished by the time my second child is born in January 2006.

About Jo Young

I am from Lismore on the Far North Coast of NSW. I have recently moved back to the area after 5 years living in Sydney and Perth.

While studying music at Southern Cross University I wrote songs and sang for the bands Tane (with Dolphin Award Winners Don Ruttan and Phil Ashworth) and Samsara. I started playing solo in 2000 with a three month residency at the National Hotel in Fremantle, Perth. More recently I have been test driving my original material at songwriter showcases around Sydney (Cat and Fiddle in Balmain, Club Willoughby, The Cove).
Jo is part of the international songwriters community known as Songsalive! Jo is opening a chapter of Songsalive in Byron Bay on the 20th November 2005.