New Yorker Meshach Jackson is responsible for some of the most tripped out, heartfelt, experimental songwriting I’ve heard in a good while.
Similar in parts to where [Deftones] Chino Moreno’s is coming from with his side project ‘Team Sleep’, there’s a very dramatic element to the layered, atmospheric music that builds and twists through tight bass and drum arrangements.
The real deal here is Meshach’s voice, which can’t fail to grab you, and which brings real soul and emotion to the proceedings.
The aptly titled 4 track EP ‘Experment In Drowning’ has just been released and you can hear the streams on Meshach’s Myspace page. Also, get over to Meshach’s blog Mayor of the Internet for some intelligent observation, because let’s face it, you’re not going to get any here.
Here’s the first single in two parts, the excellent ‘Smile/Immovable You’ followed by the electronic wig out of ‘Shrug/Stop the Smile’.
mp3: meshach jackson - smile/immovable you.
mp3: meshach jackson - shrug/stop the smile.
