FALLEN TREE RECORDS ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM BY JON BROOKS – Moth Nor Rust II - OUT NOW!

FALLEN TREE RECORDS ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM BY JON BROOKS – Moth Nor Rust II - OUT NOW!
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Tracklist (Sept 13, 2019 - Fallen Tree Records)
1. When We Go [4:06]
2. What’s Within Us [6:55]
3. The Crying of the Times #3 [4:05]
4. In the Alleys [3:07]
5. Small [3:41]
6. There Is Only Love [3:41]
7. War Resister [3:37]
8. Safer Days [4:10]
9. High Five [2:59]
10. When We Go Reprise [2:44]
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Artist: Jon Brooks
Title: Moth Nor Rust II
Genre: Singer-Songwriter / Folk
Run time: 39:31
Release date: 2019-09-13
Label: Fallen Tree Records
CD SKU: FTRC1014
CD UPC: 0842736001421
RIYL: Lee Harvey Osmond, Stephen Fearing, Bob Dylan
Focus Tracks: 1. When We Go, 9. High Five, 5. Small, 6. There Is Only Love

Jon Brooks chats with Jan Hall HERE

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( credit Victoria Lidia Ilgacs)

“Moth Nor Rust was released a decade ago, and was the first Jon Brooks album I heard.  Moth Nor Rust II is a contemporary re-imaging of Brooks’ most enduring release. Listening to the 2009 album this week, I am reminded how spellbinding I found the album those years ago. Not only does Brooks not sing like anyone else, I don’t believe he views the world like the rest of us. And for a songwriter, that is a necessary if isolating aspect of the artistry.” read the FULL REVIEW here

Jon Brooks asks “What makes us human?” and discovers it’s “All that neither Moth Nor Rust can touch”: love, hope, trust, forgiveness, vigilance, faith, curiosity, memory, inspiration, courage, wonder and wonder’s paradoxical willingness to accept and embrace the ineffable and the unknown.

Moth Nor Rust II, Brooks’ seventh release, revisits the themes and stories the Toronto-based singer/songwriter first examined in 2009 on his solo acoustic Moth Nor Rust release. At that time he was looking for an uplifting digression from the earlier, darker themed, releases No Mean City (2006) about urban disappointment, and Ours and the Shepherds (2007) which told Canadian stories of post traumatic stress and their role in international conflicts. Acting as the cadence that resolved his first two albums’ tensions, Moth Nor Rust became a fan favourite.

Now, ten years later, Brooks sees a world distracted by its unknowable future: environmental collapse, humanity’s forced retirement by AI and potentially the fall of democracy. His earlier question, “What makes us human?” is ever more compelling. With his band The Outskirts of Approval, Moth Nor Rust II affirms Jon Brooks as an essential voice in digesting our human condition.

“The song is an artform that operates in time. Ten years’ time has a way of transforming the song in ways worthy of revisiting,” says Brooks. Moth Nor Rust II is engineered and produced by Jason LaPrade, who also engineered the original Moth Nor Rust, and co-produced by Brooks’ longtime friend and musical compadre, Neil Cruickshank. The Outskirts of Approval feature Neil Cruickshank, John Showman and Vivienne Wilder.

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