{"version":1.0,"type":"rich","provider_name":"SoundCloud","provider_url":"https://soundcloud.com","height":450,"width":"100%","title":"jayney","description":"Watch the video \"Weird Feeling\" on YouTube: \nhttp://tinyurl.com/jk-weird-yt\n\nBuy the single on iTunes:\nhttp://tinyurl.com/jk-weird\n\nIn an industry where turning 21 can make you feel fragile, the Berlin based Australian songstress Jayney Klimek has just turned 50. There's no point keeping quiet about it. In fact she's decided to celebrate what she loves about music and her place within it.\n\nA big birthday often poses the question - \"what's next?\" Major record deals and chart topping success with The Other Ones as well as collaborations with legends (Tony Banks, Nik Kershaw, Marilion, Tangerine Dream, Paul van Dyke, Alphaville a.o.) have given her an exciting ride spanning four decades. It seems there's very little Jayney hasn't done other than gone solo. And this turns out to be the answer to her next phase. \"It's time,\" she says, \"It feels right – finally!”\n\nFor her solo EP ‘Awake’, Klimek has assembled a team that gives this production serious clout, making us sit up even before the play button's been pressed. Produced and recorded between London and Berlin, the digital music pioneer Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Erasure, Einstürzende Neubauten) has come in to produce. His style of work breaks away from what Klimek has been doing in the past years ('Push it' for example - hats off - the most played single on Berlin’s Radio Eins in its year of release, with the band project You Pretty Thing), or the immensely popular ‘Digital Tenderness’ which she co-wrote and performed for Terranova.\n\nWhilst still in touch with the lyrical pop she's known for, ‘Awake’ is an independent electro pop album that echoes Jayney's formal training in Opera and Drama with its classical textures. The results let a strong character live - which is something Klimek is passionate about (her early inspirations being Billie Holliday, Kate Bush, DalBello - \"anyone with an edge\"). With the individuality of voice to pull it off Klimek feels more comfortable '\"to go character\" than repeating herself along pretty pop star lines: \"It's been like coming home after a long day and throwing off the high heels”.\n\nKlimek’s early fame didn't coincide with pecunary fortune and this taught her that creative success doesn't need to mean a full wallet. She recalls the highs of being a pop star: hit records, global touring, billboards in Time Square - \"it was pretty big.\" The reality was that parallel to this she had to make ends meet working as a cleaner for - Gareth Jones. \"Talk about full circle, now he's cleaning up my vocals!\"\n\nThis anecdote sums her up quite neatly. An Australian realist at heart, nothing's too big or small - nothing's disproportionately impressive and no one is beneath her. From number one hit to cleaning houses or red carpet VIP to standing behind a mate in their first pub gig. It's all par for the course in an artist's life.\n\n-- written by James McMenemy","thumbnail_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000103770998-fffy8u-t500x500.jpg","html":"","author_name":"jayney","author_url":"https://soundcloud.com/jayneyklimek"}