With Crushed GrapesMontreal singer-songwriter Jason Bajada presents nine pieces in the tradition of the folk he masters, testifying to a return to light after darker times.
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Co-directed with Connor Seidel (Charlotte Cardin, Matt Holubowski, Elliot Maginot), written between New York, the Magdalen Islands and Los Angeles, Crushed Grapes can be heard as a memory and a wish for the future. Bajada infuses it with melancholy, mingled with the sweetness of the calm after the storm. He recounts his past and his present. We feel transported in the stories and feelings it traces. Some melodies are delicate, others more candid.
Jason Bajada’s pen is precise, but poetic. The lyrics are probably the best thing about Crushed Grapes. From the first sentences, on the so pretty Snakewhere he externalizes the negative feelings towards an old love, the images he depicts grab us.
The title Crushed Grapes refers to the words of American novelist John Fante in Ask the Dust : “ her eyes looked like crushed grapes “. A metaphor that inspired the title track, one of the most beautiful compositions of this album, which exudes hope.
This is an eighth disc for Bajada and all this experience can be felt, in the composition, in the musical direction, in the attention to detail. A very beautiful work that will go wonderfully with the coming autumn.
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Crushed Grapes
Jason Bajada
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