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Neil Young Collage

by Jens Thomas

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1.
Sleeping In The Eye Of The Storm 04:37
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2.
Cortez The Killer 04:57
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3.
After The Gold Rush 03:55
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4.
Hey Hey, My My 05:54
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5.
After Berlin 03:44
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6.
Comes A Time / Deep Forbidden Lake 07:47
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7.
Helpless 03:27
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8.
Love Is A Rose 03:39
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9.
Old Man 01:00
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10.
Like A Hurricane 05:54
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11.
Cortez The Killer (Reprise) 01:11
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12.
Sink In True Love 03:38
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about

The jazz pianist and voice performer Jens Thomas, to whom the Süddeutsche Zeitung devoted an entire page three in 2019, sings and plays Neil Young. Unconventional, surprising and highly emotional. His Neil Young Collage is a sound journey beyond styles and categories, provoking images and memories in the minds of the listeners.

The term "collage" is close to the expression "bricolage", and means here to "tinker" (French "bricoler") with the found songs and lyrics of Neil Young and to come to new and independent solutions by intuitively "listening" to the material. What was an instinctively painterly process of layering piano improvisations, vocals and percussion instruments during the production of the album transforms live into a fascinating "tinkering around" in the moment before the eyes and ears of the listeners.

Jens Thomas sings in the process "as if he were a medium offering temporary asylum to different personalities, from sopranos to overtone singers. In his music, Thomas is an ecstatic performer who can transform sounds and stories into a stream of emotion," according to the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.

After studying jazz as a pianist, the SWR Jazz Prize winner released four albums on the ACT label from 2000 to 2003 (including "Plays Ennio Morricone" with Paolo Fresu and Antonello Salis, "Pure Joy" and "The Sting Project" with Christof Lauer). From 2003-2012 he improvised live incidental music in the legendary "Othello" production by Luk Perceval at the Münchner Kammerspiele (ZDF live recording) and discovered his own voice, which he continued to develop autodidactically in the following years. He freed himself completely from conventions and routines of contemporary jazz and questioned all elements of his concert performance. For Thomas, improvisation now also meant integrating body and space, language and audience into his performances.

Various theater and dance theater productions (including NT Gent, Thalia Theater Hamburg, Folkwang Tanzstudio Essen, Burgtheater Vienna), his own art performances in galleries and a two-year "artist in residence" at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, led him to extraordinary album productions such as "Goethe! Gesang der Geister" (2007, ITM) and "Speed of Grace-A Tribute To AC/DC" (2012, ACT) as well as the ARD "Tatort" drama "Ich hab im Traum geweinet" ("carried by the outstanding music of Jens Thomas" - SZ) to the encounter with actor Matthias Brandt. With him and the jointly created "word-music collages," Thomas has been performing on the major German-language theater stages since 2013. For Brandt, the musician is "the most important artistic encounter I've ever had."
In 2016 the album "Memory Boy" (Roofmusic) with exclusively original songs was released, which was written parallel to the book "Raumpatrouille" by Matthias Brandt, in 2020 the Chanson album "jENS tHOMAS" (misitunes) with own German and English lyrics.

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released May 22, 2023

Jens Thomas – Piano, Vocals, Percussion

All songs written by Neil Young, except 01 and 12 written by Jens Thomas

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