Jonathan Wilson shared a new single/video, “Marzipan,” via BMG. The fresh track follows the acclaimed singer-songwriter and producer’s 2020 album Dixie Blur.
Wilson detailed “Marzipan” in a statement:
“With my new single ‘Marzipan,’ I wanted to break out of any and all comfort zones I may have lapsed into as a writer, narrator, producer, or player. I discovered a little-known song called “Warm Rumours” from the early 70’s that was playful, risky, experimental, and took no prisoners. I wrote the string and horn arrangements for ‘Marzipan’ myself, and it was a pleasure to have these wonderful players put my melodies on this recording, and into the gentle listener’s ears. I wanted a Walker Brothers’ “The Electrician” string moment at some point in my life, that degree of beauty, and I think this gets me close.
“The song chronicles some of my life autobiographically when I lived in NYC in the early 2000’s in my 20’s. The feeling of Greenpoint, Brooklyn at that moment. Countering that with a deep dive into Hank Williams, Roy Acuff, and my early fascination with the Harry Smith Anthology during those years, I was obsessed. And of course, jazz, which changed my life forever.”
“Marzipan” arrived with a music video created by Andrea Nakhla using AI stable diffusion and is also an homage to the renowned psychedelic explorer Terance McKenna. Check it out below:
