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Painted Dream video clip
Explode in Blue video clip
LYRICS for the Dada Weatherman (also Lost-Minded's songs)Live Video of Moral Celebration
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The Dada Weatherman is Jonathan's folk project, a young songwriter (20) from France, trained piano player but guitar player in the soul (from his own confession).
At the age of 8, he plays his first notes on a toy piano.
in 2002, he learns how to play guitar with the classical Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. Then, he decided to write his own material after he discovered conor oberst's bright eyes Fever & Mirrors. He composed lots of songs in 2004, and the band that would become The Dada Weatherman is formed under the moniker Lost-Minded.
In 2005, things are rushing out when he meets Clement for the band The Wedding Soundtrack. They will share a stage in Paris, and Clement's label Another Record decide to make Lost-Minded appear on its compilation Sweets for the Wild under Creative Commons.
Thanks to this label, Jonathan gets his first radio spins with a constant support.
Fan of his music, Florent Marchet gives him the opportunity of execeptionnal concert in paris as a supporting band in front of 300 seats. On this night of Mars 2007, Jonathan sings alone songs from his first album Hold Your Flower released in 2006.
His influences are Bob Dylan, Arthur Rimbault, Leonard Cohen, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, Django Reinhardt, and more recent acts like Devendra Banhart, Conor Oberst and Elliott Smith.
In 2008, Lost-Minded becomes The Dada Weatherman, hommage to Dadaism and a line in Bob Dylan's book Tarantula. Under this moniker, Jonathan just recorded at home his last album, the most beautifully produced to date: The Green Waltz. Strings and brass sections arrangments appear in a gentle and subtle way. 15 folk songs colored with a bluesy guitar play. Luxury and exquisit metaphors. This collection of songs contains elegant melodies and lyrical maturity for a boy that age are.
In addition to the sound, Jonathan is a gifted painter. For every song he wrote, he painted his own vision of them, as well as the album artwork. (Those pictures can be found in the photos section.)"
- by
Franck Huet
Discography:
Hold your flower (2006)
Concert at Ménilmontant theatre (DVD, 2007)
The Green Waltz (2008)
Web Sites : http://wizzz.telerama.fr/thedadaweatherman
http://www.jamendo.com/fr/artist/The_Dada_Weatherman
Contact the Band:[email protected]Contact Manager :
Franck Huet
27 rue du Cygne
37000 TOURS
Tél. 06 11 02 15 81
[email protected]
What others are saying about the Dada Weatherman:
'Hi guys! i listened to your cd in the tour bus. keep working! sure you'll do great!"
-Conor Oberst from Bright Eyes
"Jonathan IS the Dada Weatherman. When I first heard 'Flying on a Cloud' and 'Waltz 3' I think my heart skipped a few beats as the vocals ascended a lovely, soft, and evocative if not ethereal sound. The guitar was strikingly gentle and swept my ears into a state of emotional bliss. I found myself going often to the Dada Weatherman page as Jo and I had began talks about what my record label at the time could possibly offer him. That time is now in the past and the Dada Weatherman's music has been given representation by Chilla Productions , my collective that supports exclusively my own projects and now that of the Dada Weatherman. Since the collective mainly has focused on experimental music I was not quite sure how the audience would respond to something so different... so drastically refreshing! The answer is that they are loving the mix! Jonathan is an amazing artist who is passionate and prolific with his music and will be turning heads and warming souls far into his future as an artist. His craft is young yet the foundation formed quite solid under his foot as he continues to carve elegant and finely tuned acoustic creations."
-K. Cornelius, January 2007, Chilla Productions.
"The Dada Weatherman is the project of Jonathan, young songwriter, 18, exceptionally gifted, pianist of formation but guitarist in the heart. The addition of a flute, a cello, a bass and drums brings lightness and originality to his music. His influences are the jazz of Django Reinhardt, the Blues, Leonard Cohen and Jimi Hendrix. Even though, the Dada Weatherman can be tagged as a folk-rock band. France has its Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes)."
-F. Huet, January 2005, Another Record.
