{"product_id":"jonas-david_goliath_pia","title":"Goliath","description":"In autumn 2019 Jonas David went to Sicily to defeat a giant. For several years the singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer had written countless songs and song fragments, but the time was not ripe for an album. Which sound could it be? What is the right way to work - and how does all this fit in with the current state of the music industry? Questions that could not be answered so easily. The first attempts at a production led nowhere, and soon Jonas didn't know how an unscathed record could emerge from all this thinking. That's when the next album became Goliath, a seemingly invincible giant. A TRIP TO SICILY And so Jonas decided to wait for the right moment. There was enough to do anyway. His last album, \"Keep The Times\" from 2011, carried him 600 concerts. And then there were all those collaborations, especially with the musicians' collective Tour of Tours, which led to several acclaimed tours and two albums together so far. For his friend Matthias Schweighöfer, Jonas produced some songs and contributed the score to his film \"Vielmachglas\" (2017, with Rasmus Zschoch). Even an EP with some new songs was produced (\"Five Stones\", 2017). Jonas David was not inactive. And what does it mean at all, to be inactive, when you sharpen the idea of your own music, when you face the voices in your head and try to find your own sound and expression.  So Jonas went to Sicily one morning in autumn to defeat his Goliath. You can imagine that: The singer sits in a Volvo packed with instruments, in his head a dozen songs and song fragments that had survived the self-criticism. Together with his companion Rasmus Zschoch and some other Sicilian friends, Jonas simply lets it happen in the next six weeks. Sometimes it is like that: You think and think and then suddenly the time is there - you just do it and watch what happens. And then it really happens because under all the complex thoughts the answer you have been looking for all this time has long since developed. All you need is a little bit of confidence in your own skills - and it starts to flow. \"My only goal was to finally finish the album,\" says Jonas, \"in the studio it was no longer about experimenting or jamming. I wanted to work and make these songs - I owed them that.\" A SOUND FOR THE UNCONSCIOUS It was the same in the Sicilian studio where Jonas and his comrades-in-arms simply recorded what came out day after day (and often also at night), further and further, more and more beautiful. Sometimes Giovanna, the mother of the studio owner, would come by and bring large glasses of pomegranate juice she had just made from the fruit outside the studio window. Of course it also plays a role that Sicily is not Cologne or Castrop-Rauxel or Berlin. Jonas talks about lemon trees in a rough landscape and about the southern European era, where there is more room for leisure (the studio is called \"Pausa\"). All this made it easier for Jonas to open his head and let something new in. Thanks for that, Jonas David.","brand":"Jonas David","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56837743837528,"sku":null,"price":1.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/4260311432112.jpg?v=1779005760","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/jonas-david_goliath_pia","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}