Joscha´s Midnight Preachers

01/11/2023

Joscha´s Midnight Preachers (JMP)

With their playful and exploratory musical approach, Joscha and his Midnight Preachers offer music with a wide range in dynamics, form, and expression. Open and simple compositions provide creative soloists with the space they need to create playful musical thought processes, supported by a flexible yet precise rhythm section. Joscha's Midnight Preachers is a band with a lot of enthusiasm and eclecticism, delivering determined teamwork and a strong groove.

Project members

Joscha Ernst, saxophone
Jonah Lowry, trumpet and synthesizer
Jonas Christiansen, guitar
Vetle Aakre Laupsa, bass
Bjørn André Syverinsen, drums

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Pluto

Release date: 1.11.2023

Pluto is a collection of Joscha´s Midnight Preachers' first songs. It is the bands debut album. Through a strong and direct inspiration from the night life, each song carries its own descriptive atmosphere. The music focuses on how versatile the life at night can be, whether it's at home, in a bar, in your living room, or up in the mountains. The album Pluto is a cocktail of various emotions, atmospheres, and events that unfold during the night. It explores feelings of hatred, anger, joy, happiness, sorrow, and the end of the world.

APOCALYPSE I+II is an ode to what it's like when everything and everyone is falling apart. After that world has ended, we reach the album's lightest song, which deals with grief, longing, and hope. While BACCHUS offers a heavy and reflective moment, the following song, BOOKAROOM, provides immense relief and a cheerful mood. In the subsequent song, which is the album's title track, the mood shifts from BOOKAROOM's cheerful tune to PLUTO's aggression. Initially written in frustration over the fact that Pluto no longer is classified as a planet, the album then concludes with FRI and SIMPLA, symbolizing the feeling of freedom and pure joy.

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