The light keeps coming back, but still there is crazy much snow here in Sthlm, Sweden. It’s the heaviest winter in decades. But you can feel it in the air… between the whirling snowflakes…there is something with the light… And suddenly you remember that there is such a thing as spring. It’s a promising feeling.
AND also , I’ve got some really good news:
Finally the wonderful, hot, sexy and dark PASS ME THE SALT  FEAT. MAPEI REMIX 12″ can be yours!
Order it RIGHT NOW!
Listen to Clattering Hooves, live at Dramaten, Stockholm:
Clattering Hooves (live)
AND ALSO! I’ve got a MANIFEST nomination for “Best Live Act of 2009″
I’ve had the wonderful pleasure to spent quite much time with these fellows, Tensta Gospel Choir, during the last month of this year!
Today it’s only one week left until we make our excluuuusive premiere show at Dramaten, Sthlm, Sweden.
This is for you, who just can’t wait… A little gospel-teaser from the underground:
clattering-teaser
And now the very year of 2009 is about to end.
Wish you all a Happy and Brave New Year. May you have the guts to make all the changes you’ll find necessary to make in 2010, but also the brains to sort out what there is that should stay just the way it is today.
And be kind to each other.
Enough of my advices!
See you in 2010.
Love,
JW
December is the time when you’re supposed to think back of what you’ve done during the year that i about to come to its end… For me 2009 for sure has been a lot of amazing performances! I am so proud of what I’ve done, me and  my awesome band!
Today P3 GULD published the nominees for the P3 GULD AWARDS 2010 at a press conference in Stockholm!
And I am nominated to the prestigious prize GULDMICKEN ( the Gold Mike) Â which goes to the best live act of the year! Â I am so so worthy of it!
I will receive a prize! Hallelujah! It’s the European Border Breakers Award that will reward me with this fine award.
The prize aims to stimulate the cross-border circulation of artists’ works and to highlight Europe’s great musical diversity, it says on EBBA’s website. Wow, sounds good to me!
And now YOU can also make me win the PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD, if you think I deserve it…
Which I do, I guess.
Vote for me here!
The awards ceremony will take place on January 14th on the opening night of The European Music Conference and Showcase Festival EuroSonic Noorderslag.
When I wrote the music for Hardships! I had a lot of gospel on my mind. I was thinking about slave songs and its power within. Sometimes we all need a little extra of that power.
It’s fascinating with gospel, I think. Almost every gospel song is an anthem about how we shall be released and how we will see the light and yes, of course, Â meet Jesus and all that. That life it self is a long harsh road of struggle.
For me, gospel, and all good music, is that very heavenly place, the place where we already has been released and have the power that the ordinary life not always gives you.
You can now only imagine how amazing the mix of The Jenny Wilson and Tensta Gospel Choir would sound! This you don’t wanna miss!
Jenny Wilson Featuring Tensta Gospel Choir are giving three exclusive shows in January:
6 jan - Dramaten, Stockholm.
16 jan - KB, Malmö.
17 jan - Lorensborgsteatern, Göteborg.
Tickets are released: Nov the 17th at 12:00!
Below: The audience at the Fader party, NYC, a few weeks ago, portrayed by Sara Wilson.
What do you want my little son? A jack knife or a gun?
Don’t use that language and don’t chew with an open mouth!
PASS ME THE SALT is a song about an ongoing civil war at home, at the kitchen table, in front of kids, where you’re armed with an aching, not fulfilled need to be loved!
AMEN!
PASS ME THE SALT feat. the most stunning MAPEI is here on 12″ with 4 incredible remixes by FRONT OF HOUSE, MaJiKer and SAFE HOUSE STUFF!
Listen to it here!
Do you know what it takes?
Have you really passed the test?
I think you could do it, if you really wanted to…to… to…
See me live next week in NY!
I will make a quick visit in Da Big Apple and I hope you can come and see my exclusive shows!!!
24 oct -  Levis Fader Fort @ Ace Hotel, 20 west 29th street at 4.15 pm
24 oct -  Cake Shop (official CMJ-spelning), Ludlow Street (lower east side) at 9.30 pm
Tomorrow evening I’ll be standing on a stage in Paris preaching for you who’ll be there! I look forward to it!
Don’t miss it! Come to Point Ephemere, 200 Quai de Valmy en Paris ’round 8!
Today, it’s a cloudy Swedish day in Sweden, and I listen to Charlie Haden’s remarkable wonderful album, The Liberation Music Orchestra while I am dealing with paperwork, that I should’ve done for a very long time ago.
This record, or actually its cover, has once inspired me and my friend Karl-Jonas so much that we changed the name of our band to the very same - LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA.
Still before we had recorded anything yet, we called us THE POWER OF JONAH AND JENNY. We were fond of that odd, but powerful name. It sounded a bit Biblical, and that was good. But it also had a nerd-flavour, which was not that good - It reminded us of groups like Belle and Sebastian (very popular in Sweden at that time). So, no… We never really established that name.
When we recorded our first demo, 1997, we lived in a sunny apartment on the first floor, and that place brought us our name: FIRST FLOOR POWER. Â Some people in the neighbourhood had now heard of us: We played as much as we could at night clubs and bars, and we were very proud of our band and talked a lot about it all the time. In fact, there were only one problem with it - THE NAME! No one, ever, could hear what we said - FIRST FLOOR POWER - it sounded so fluffy, the mouth were immediately filled up with saliva every time you had to pronounce it. “What?? FIST FLOWER POWER!?” It didn’t feel right. At all. We were not ready to be huddled together with hippies or flower power. We were straight. A’
Aright. Let’s find out something else, we thought, something that sounds better… We spelled it: THE-GREAT- ORGANISATION! Wow, cool, we liked it! So we explained that we had changed our name from FIRST FLOOR POWER to this.
But soon, a slightly cold wind started to blow each and every time we tried to identify us as THE GREAT ORGANISATION… Ok, “The Great” sounded good. That word was… great. But “Organisation”, didn’t that word have a offensive charisma?  It had a touch of a nazi-club or something. Shit. We got cold feet.
Ok, now we were desperate! We can’t have a name that gives us the creeps!
We stayed up for three whole nights - writing, rhyming, speaking in tongues, searching for the essence, the serum, the key word, the clue! We almost fell into a coma, but just before we did, Karl Jonas put on a record he had bought a few days before. It was Charlie Haden’s LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA!
Oh yeah, here we go! Let’s steal this name! It was the best name we have ever heard, and we stuck to it for almost a week. But then, again, we begin to wonder how the word “Orchestra” would affect our forthcoming career. It was still 1997 and we could barely play our instruments. Were we really the members of an orchestra? No. But we were definitely back were we started, almost. We took back our old name FIRST FLOOR POWER, and since then, we have never changed it again. But, please have a look at the cover of our debut album “There is hope” from 2001… A piece of Charlie Haden has got stuck forever!
