Jack’s debut album ‘Ashen Grey’ evokes powerful and strong emotions, painting beautiful sonic landscapes that entice and embrace the listener’s ears. A dark and moody album with melancholic melodies that will rip your heart out.
‘I think the original inspiration for the album was when I saw Rufus Wainwright perform in Stockholm. I was so blown away at his sense of melody. It was like in the old days when you believed in artists’ that never let you down. Like Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell and Dylan. I’d felt that level of artistry had long passed by. It was like the messiah had come or the gay messiah to be more precise’.
The albums title track, ‘Ashen Grey’ was the first song Jack wrote for the album. When Swedish recording artist Sandra diAmante started working with Jack on the song they could feel they had a great vocal blend together. The chemistry between their two voices was magic.
Jack also tried something new that would turn out to be a fresh ingredient in his music, which was to write on the piano. “I have always primarily been a guitarist and to start writing on the piano was a whole new source of inspiration for me'.
The album’s opening track Spanish Rose started off as a love song that was shelved for about four years then re-emerged without the love ‘I started off as her desire now in an empty bed of men expired’. Jack’s debut album Ashen Grey’s is a bitter-sweet saga of deep betrayal, loss and finding a renewed sense of life.
Legendary artist Klaus Voormann who designed the album cover for The Beatles ‘Revolver’ drew the art-work for 'Ashen Grey'.
