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6 Towns Radio

The good people at Stoke Sounds will be playing 'Lazarus' the opening track from 'There Is Hope In Small Things' tomorrow evening (Monday 22nd August) on their radio slot on 6 Towns Radio from 7-9 pm. When the album is finished I'll be going in to play a live acoustic session of some new material, maybe throw in a cover version and hopefully play some of the actual recorded album too. I'll keep you updated on here and Facebook.

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Play Music Magazine

Just found out about a nice little review in July's edition of Play Music magazine which you can pick up for free in hundreds of guitar/music shops. You can find out where to get it here:

www.playmusicpickup.co.uk/stockists.php

"An excellent debut album from Jon White, under the moniker of If This Is A Man. Self-produced and featuring Jon on all instruments, this mixture of early 90's emo (think The Appleseed Cast, American Football), psychedelic outbursts and gentle piano playing is a well constructed, hazily flowing collection. The whole thing is an experimental and beautiful set of songs whose songwriting owes as much to Jon's individual tastes as to the bands and artists he sites as influences. He doesn't sound like any particular one, making There Is Hope In Small Things an accomplished and intriguing first foray for him."

check it out here:

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1sq6p/PlaymusicJuly2011/resources/48.htm

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RebelRiffs

Review from Rebel Riffs:


"If This Is A Man is one John White, a one man band who contacted me for a review of his latest project There Is Hope In Small Things; an eleven track CD. Like most musicians, John covered his request with a number of caveats; the most important being that it was 'recorded and produced at home so the quality is a little hit and miss' Well, mate almost 99% of what I get to review comes under that category but when you consider what our home computers are capable of these days, that still sets a pretty high standard. He was also kind enough to let me have the tracks as full blooded WAV files, and if that isn't close to the recorded event then nothing is. No MP3 delivers the same aural quality.

Whatever you may think about the music and songs stylistically, there is no doubt that this guy spent a whole lot of time and patience putting all this together. I don't think most people would notice the technical bumps and flubs, but to my ears they are there (especially vocally) but that's home recording for you. I was writing in a review lately about how being indie musicians allows us to stretch ourselves further than (say) commercial music, the time and cost is irrelevant. If This Is A Man exemplifies this because I admit that I haven't come across much guitar based music that is as adventurous with sound as this CD. While the slow, very laid back style wouldn't normally catch my attention, the way John presents them to your ears ensure that you will listen just to see what he'll do next.

Musically this veers from influences such as Mike Oldfield (for the way it put together), old style singer/songwriters like Syd Barrett and Terry Reid to Soft Machine. So, being different, and somewhat off the beaten track, this may not appeal to everybody but it appeals to me because of that difference. No matter what kind of music you do these days, you can bet that it has been done before, all you can hope to do is put a new slant on it, and If This Is A Man has certainly achieved that. Every track on this CD shows a different side of what essentially guitar driven songs, and when you are that limited, its doubly hard to hold attention. A fine job, but try a track and see first.

Recommended (intelligent) guitar songs."

http://rebelriffs.blogspot.com/2011/06/if-this-is-man-there-is-hope-in-small.html

..it's Jon*

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Studio

Been in the recording studio proper with Joe Robson (The Luckiest www.myspace.com/theluckiestmusic) and Ali Ewing (Solarwind - www.myspace.com/solarwindmusic) working on a new track, not sure what name it's going to be released under but probably not If This Is A Man as this is a solo endeavour, but musically it's not a million miles away. All the guitar parts, drums, piano, bass and even mandolin and banjo parts are finished, just need to write and record the vocal parts and let Ali work his magic on the production. Will put the track up on here when it's finished for a free download, might even try and make a little video for it and stick it on YouTube maybe. I'll keep you posted.

Peace
Jon x

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Francais

Tiny unsolicited reference in an obscure French website win!

"If This Is A Man a mis son premier album There Is Hope In Small Things en téléchargement gratuit sur Bandcamp. C'est... différent et c'est très bien !"


http://www.danslemurduson.com/archive/2011/06/12/news-12-06-11-if-this-is-a-man.html

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