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David Jordan - Place In My Heart single / Set The Mood album
If you're wondering where all the British pop superstars disappeared to, your answer is about to come in the shape of David Jordan, who releases his debut single, Place In My Heart on Mercury Records on October 22nd, followed by the album, Set The Mood, on October 29th.
Born in Barnet to a mother from Montserrat and a father from Calcutta, at only 21 this singer, songwriter and natural, effervescent live performer is throwing contemporary British pop in exciting new directions with searing rock guitars, throbbing party rhythms, blissful melodies and charismatically executed nods to his own childhood idols - Marvin Gaye and The Jackson Five, then later James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Cab Calloway, Guns N' Roses, Prince and Lenny Kravitz.
David Jordan has spent his entire life setting his own agenda and his obsession with music is splashed vividly through 'Set The Mood', a debut album bursting with life, love, passion and promise. The single 'Place In My Heart' is a great scene-setter where David's take on social conditioning, brainwashing and petty bureaucracy is set to a creamy, agile pop-soul backing which builds magnificently to an incendiary, rocking crescendo. There's plenty of fun on the album, too - 'Sun Goes Down' is a dirty, raucous song about how, David explains, "when the sun goes down in London, all the madness starts". Meanwhile David's gift for thinking in three dimensions means that he considers the music to be only half the story, with visual accompaniments like artwork, flamboyant photography and captivating video footage completing the picture.
Having been spotted by co-founder of ZTT Jill Sinclair, David Jordan's album has been produced by the legendary Trevor Horn (Seal, Frankie Goes To Hollywood).Trevor Horn took a personal interest in David's development, passionately assembling the debut album 'Set The Mood' over 18 months. The producer whose pioneering, inventive sounds fuelled everyone from Art Of Noise to Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and whose understanding of British soul music has provided idiosyncratic hits for the likes of Seal and Lisa Stansfield, has proved to be the perfect foil for David, a superbly soulful vocal talent with a desire to take British music in new sonic directions instead of simply aping sounds from across the Atlantic.
David Jordan's Debut Album Set The Mood is released on Mercury on October 29th. The album will be preceded by the single Place In My Heart on October 22nd.
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