Zwanie Jonson - We Like It

Release date: 6th August 2021
Formats: LP
Label: Fun In The Church
Catalogue Number: FUN18
Barcode: 4260437156213
Genre: Pop

Format Details: Black Vinyl, 135g in Sleeve with UV gloss varnish

Hamburg's very own Christoph Kähler a.k.a. Zwanie Jonson has many names. He is, depending on your perspective, theee eternal drummer, who has toured with legions of seminal German bands of all genres, he is just as well theee eternal underdog, for whose solo debut album "It's Zwanietime" infamous DJ Koze invented his very first label Hoobert in 2007 - out of pure love and just to be able to release it. (Koze taken with it: "The sweetness and kindness that runs through all the songs makes you think Zwanie is on the verge of his enlightenment."). He's been called a fake Swede, JJ Cale from the Waterkant, taller than Jesus (sic!), but above all he's the man who makes Hamburg look like a sweet spot at the end of Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles.

In summer 2011, Zwanie's second album "I'm A Sunshine" was released by Staatsakt. The album track "Golden Song" became a late radio hit in 2015 through its use in the film "Victoria". In 2017 he released "Eleven Songs For A Girl", also on Staatsakt, and now his fourth album "We Like It" is scheduled for early august on Fun In The Church. Recorded virtually alone, just like any of Zwanie's records, "We Like It" breathes the spirit of finely honed West Coast Folk-Psychedelica and melancholic blue-eyed soul ballads, sometimes delivered as bouncy easy listening, sometimes in an almost Balearic Boogie groove. In short: "We Like It" is an album that seems to have fallen out of all time in such a way that it shines beyond all time.

Let's end our adulation at this point and let Andreas Dorau (German New Wave teen idol and the second German artist after DAF ever to be signed to Mute Records in the early 80ies, you might have heard of him or his super smash hit „Fred vom Jupiter“ before) and reknown German journalist Christoph Dallach, two other outspoken fans, have their say and discuss everything else worth knowing about Zwanie Jonson for us.

Tracklisting:
01. We Like It
02. Empty Cities
03. The Hook
04. Bring Me Colour
05. It’s Our DNA
06. You Wrote A Book
07. Anthony
08. My Apartment
09. Hate Is Coming Back
10. I Wobble Today
11. My Midnight Train