Easy Heart

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Cat No: JLCD002

Release Date: 24 March 2014

Label: Continental Song City

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8713762039509

Genres: Folk Americana

Description
"Easy Heart" is the new album by Jens Lysdal and was recorded in Austin, TX with Tim OÂ´Brien, Greg Leisz, Danny Frankel, Glenn Fukunaga and others. All new material, with co-writes with, among others, Ray Bonneville.

Jens Lysdal was born in Sweden by danish parents. Following a year in New Orleans the family moved to Denmark.

His songs and albums - unaffected by trends - are slow-release works of craft and catharsis that become treasured, lifetime companions for their listeners.

His style is often subtle and poetic, but at the same time with an unmistakable sharpness in playing and writing.

Both as a writer and instrumentalist, he covers a wide range of genres - that he often mixes - always using it for making lyrical and musical points. When performing - unlimited by genre - he draws from all sorts of influences and is comfortable with whatever that takes him.

Nationally and internationally he has received tremendous reviews for his songs and recordings and is one of scandinavias top guitarplayers. When he recently re-released an updated version of his debut- album "A matter of time", danish press called it: "one of the most solid works in newer danish popular musichistory".

Both his newer and older songs are frequently played on air and are featured in numerous danish and international films.
He has scored several films himself and lately worked with five-time Emmy-winner filmcomposer Jakob Groth ("The girl with the dragon tatoo") as vocalist and musician.

What makes him stand out as a performer is the combination between his songs and voice and his high level as an instrumentalist. Making his music and concerts unique - the focus shifting between the songs and his guitar-playing, reinforcing each other.

He is known for always playing and recording with top-level musicians - among them: Greg Leisz - lapsteel, pedal-steel (Joni Mitchell, Eric Clapton, KD Lang, Bill Frisell, Ryan Adams), Tim OÂ´Brien - mandolin, fiddle (Mark Knopfler, The Chieftains), Glenn Fukunaga (Bob Dylan, The Dixie Chicks) Danny Frankel (Rickie Lee Jones, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Marianne Faithful) and Hugo Rasmussen (Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins).

Before his solo-debut in 1995 he was a hardworking sideman performing with international stars like The Pointer Sisters, Sergio Mendes and Donna Summer. He's still much in demand as a studio-musician and occassionally also live as a sideman guitarist, lately with the Grammy-nominated Eliza Gilkyson.

He is a co-founder of the groundbreaking ensemble SmÃ¥ Oaser/Small Oases - "Filmmusic for reality"
Tracklisting