Jude Davison
The early years - College, The Wogs & The Sensations
Born in the nor… Read Full Bio ↴The early years - College, The Wogs & The Sensations
Born in the northeast port of Hartlepool England, Jude grew up with a somewhat nomadic family life moving between England, Australia, and Canada until finally settling in Canada in 1975. While recovering from a bicycle accident, and inspired by the music of 10cc, The Kinks and Kiss, he taught himself to play the guitar and immediately began penning his own songs. His first band, The Vandals, formed from a high school Beatles look-alike contest, drew inspiration from the new wave sounds of the day: The Clash, The Police, and Elvis Costello. After graduating from high school, Jude enrolled in the Music Industry Arts Program at Fanshawe College in 1981, to study recording engineering. Here he co-founded his second band, The Wogs, wrote and recorded multiples of original songs, and won the college’s Best Composition Award both years running. The songs he wrote and recorded during these two years would later comprise his first two CDs – Brand New Shirt & Tie, and Picture Perfect.
After college Jude moved to Toronto and formed his third band, The Sensations, which performed in the Toronto area playing a repertoire of Jude original songs augmented with classic Motown tunes. In 1984 the band were finalists on Toronto radio station Q-107’s homegrown contest, landing Jude’s song, Picture Perfect, on Q-107’s 1984 album. After The Sensations broke up, Jude moved to London England to experience the musical landscape of the UK and play gigs while shopping demo tapes to UK labels. Upon returning to Canada a year later Jude began playing his first solo gigs and unknowingly began his own independent musical career by recording and releasing three cassettes: Long & Sharp (1985), Pigeon Moods (1986), and The Greatest Escape (1987).
Crusoe - Back to the Wonderful & Strange Fruit
In 1990, and with a newly inked publishing deal for two songs and interest from a major record label, Jude relocated to Canada’s west coast and signed with Vancouver management company New Hayden Music. Jude’s first fully-realized, big-budget album, Back to the Wonderful, was completed in 1991 and found a release in both the USA (Caliber Records) and Germany (Eurostar). The album’s first single, Lifeline, reached #25 on the Gavin Report AC radio charts (USA), while other songs were used in movies and soundtracks alongside Elton John and Dan Hill. Two of the album’s tracks were licensed to the world’s most syndicated TV show, Baywatch and the song, It’s a Mystery was covered and released in Asia by film star Veronica Yip. Jude’s follow-up album, Strange Fruit, featured a slightly rockier sound and was released in Canada on TomCat Records. Two songs from this album were licensed to the American and Canadian TV shows, The Hoop Life and Higher Ground.
Drop Dead Scene - Fetish & Neurotic Erotica
After touring the Strange Fruit album and inspired by a business trip to Hollywood and the sights and sounds of the LA music scene, Jude began writing songs for an imaginary rock band he called Fetish. The project soon began to take on a life of its own; characters emerged, a story line was hatched, and the project began to emerge in the shape of a movie script. Jude drafted a synopsis and wrote and recorded an accompanying edgy soundtrack album called, Neurotic Erotica, reminiscent of early David Bowie and Iggy Pop records. Jude then collaborated on a screenplay version of the project with poet, Blake Parker. The finished script, Drop Dead Scene, is the story about the rise and fall of a group of rock ‘n roll misfits, set against a satirical backdrop of music industry hype and was Jude’s first foray into dramatic writing and composing music ‘in character’.
Leland Frank - Slow Resurrection & God's Big Radio
As soon as Drop Dead Scene was finished Jude began work on his next character-driven project – a screenplay titled Slow Resurrection: the Life and Times of Leland Frank. Set in the post-plague future, Slow Resurrection follows the life of cowboy troubadour, Leland Frank and features the ‘soundtrack’ album, God’s Big Radio - a collection of original, traditional-sounding country songs penned by Jude. The story was, again, co-written with Blake Parker and with the help of some grant money eventually evolved and toured as a multi-media theatrical production, featuring poetry, video, and live music. Later the song, In Time We All Must Die, from the soundtrack album was licensed to the TV show, Cold Squad.
Cybersoul - University & Musicals
Jude briefly returned to school in 2000 to complete a Bachelor of General Studies degree with concentrations in Music and English. Inspired by courses in Shakespeare, Modern Canadian Theatre and Creative Writing, Jude began to think about writing a piece for theatre. A conversation about cyborgs and clones spawned the idea for his next project: a Broadway-style musical called Cybersoul. With an out-pouring of creative inspiration, within four months Jude had written and demoed eighteen songs and polished a script. The result is undoubtedly Jude’s most ambitious project to date: an original piece of contemporary musical theatre that combines classic-sounding soul music, cyborgs, and Shakespearean themes, into a story of love, betrayal, murder, revolution, forgiveness and ultimately redemption.
Jude Rain - Angels in the Slipstream
Shortly after completing Cybersoul, Jude received a call from singer, Rain Shields, asking him to produce a song she had written for a spiritual healer from India. This led to a new musical partnership that resulted in the album, Angels in the Slipstream. With Jude providing the music and production and Rain the lyrics, the album became a collection of spiritual songs celebrating the unity of humanity and was released on Slipstream Records in July of 2005.
Terminal City Trilogy - Poetry/Music & Blake Parker
In between writing and recording the ‘Angels’ album, Jude found time to once again work with long-time collaborator, Blake Parker, who was now, unfortunately, battling cancer. This time the pair’s collaboration was based around Blake’s rich back-catalogue of poetry, and resulted in three CDs of original spoken word and music. Titled, The Terminal City Trilogy, the CD collection was released in the fall of 2005 and enjoyed airplay and some notoriety on Canada’s CBC radio. Blake passed away in January, 2007.
Acoustic Trilogy - Uncertain Heaven, Ordinary Dream, Bread & Bones
Throughout this period Jude also worked extensively as a music producer. These projects were often very diverse, ranging from heavy metal, country music and a Tibetan prayer album, to a Doukabour choir CD, a Waldorf School CD, to a couple of Americana CDs by Seattle artist Eva Tree, as well as numerous singer/songwriters projects. Jude also continued to play a weekly house gig that featured a repertoire of acoustic original and cover songs. To augment these performances, Jude learned to play several new instruments: mandolin, baritone ukulele, and dobro. He recorded a trilogy of CDs: Uncertain Heaven (2002), Ordinary Dream (2006), and Bread & Bones (2008). These CDs perfectly captured Jude’s acoustic performances and combined eclectic cover versions of songs by the likes of Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Prince, and Radiohead, along with Jude’s own original acoustic songs.
Circo de Teatro
In 2009 after 17 diverse CD releases, Jude returned once again to a full-blown artistic album, Circo de Teatro. Inspired in-part by the book Water for Elephants, Circo de Teatro is difficult to pigeon-hole as it is a truly unique sounding album that borrows and combines sounds from Americana, Roots, R&B, Dixieland and Mexican Mariachi music, and forges this with the story and theme of a traveling circus. In a Tom Waits-esque manner the music brings to life the sights and sounds of a circus as well as many of its characters – the misfits, the freaks, the performers, who make their life working on a traveling show. The album has received unanimously rave reviews from Los Angeles, to Tokyo and all throughout Europe and has garnered extensive radio airplay. In January 2010 Jude put together a stellar 10-piece band and presented the album, in its entirety, as a theatrical live show. The show was a sell-out. Live video clips can be seen on this website and at youtube.com
Outskirts Of Eden - the new album
In these days of single song downloads and shuffling iPod playlists being the way of the world what’s an artist doing releasing a classic concept album - something designed to be listened to as a whole entity, from beginning to end, and not necessarily in bite-size pieces? Well that’s exactly what Jude Davison did in 2009 when he released “Circo de Teatro” – the story of a Mexican circus and its colorful characters. The album’s songs, production, and theme, garnered unanimous praise from critics around the world. Americana UK called it “a bold musical statement by an honest, progressive musician not afraid to venture off the beaten path in search of a creative muse”, while All Access Magazine in Los Angeles wrote that "Circo de Teatro is a spectacle of sound . . . think Fellini meets Estrella de Jalisco de Ernnesto Molina after they had coffee at the Country Music Hall of Fame". 2010 saw Jude and his ten-piece band in full costumes and make-up bring the album – in its entirety – to the concert stage, highlights of which can be seen on this website. The album just picked up the "Concept/collaboration album of the year" at the BCIMA awards held in Kelowna BC , April 2011, and Outskirts of Eden was awarded "Best CD/DVD artwork/graphics" at the same awards.
So how do you follow up a classic concept album? With a classic double album of course!? Fast forward to 2011 as Jude has just released his latest album, “Outskirts Of Eden” - a sprawling two disc set of 27 new songs and a stunning 28 page booklet that features the artwork of Arizonan photographer and digital artist, Eric Vondy. In writing the follow-up album Jude’s initial goal was simply to follow the same musical trajectory as “Circo” – borrowing from an eclectic mix of styles and genres, but utilizing similar sounds and instrumentation. But in 2010 Jude reunited with an old musical accomplice and began writing songs for a proposed side project – an album of duets. While the duets album never materialized Jude now found himself with more songs than could be contained on a single CD. Realizing that his next album could be a double he decided to completely embrace that idea and open the musical doors wide open. “I figured that this might be my one and only chance to record my ‘White Album’, or ‘Exile on Main Street’, and who doesn’t want to do that” laughs Jude. Another burst of writing provided even more diversity to the mix and enough songs to make this a truly double album listening experience. The finished product criss-crosses musical genres combining Americana, country, rock, Dixieland, Jazz, blues, and folk into a truly eclectic mix.
While “Outskirts Of Eden” isn’t a concept album a theme of sorts did emerge during the writing process as Jude explains. “For a while I was using the working title ‘New Fruit For Eve’ - which is a lyric taken from the song, ‘Brain Street Boogie’ – a song about the evolution and inevitable decline of Mankind in a short three-minute R&B number. Then I had another song called ‘Magdelina Y Mi Corazon’ that was about Satan seducing Eve in the Garden of Eden – so naturally I decided to take the Eden theme a little bit farther. I wrote another couple of pieces inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost but then I found myself interested in what might be happening ‘outside’ of Eden and for some reason imagined this to be a rather decadent affair – something like a rave meets the Burning Man festival. Lots of sex, drugs and rock & roll. That’s where the “Outskirts Of Eden” title came from. I guess when you think about it we all are just really living on “the outskirts of Eden”, but whatever the case it gave me a sort of central theme and framework for the album that in turn informed my choice of artwork”.
This album also contains a good dose of humor in some of its songs. “Tattoo Town” is a traditional country song about the perils of getting a tattoo you quickly come to regret, while “Baby Doll” is a straight-faced sentimental paean to a blow-up doll. Another tongue-in-cheek song is “Justin Bieber’s Dad” as Jude explains. “I was playing a gig in Stratford, Ontario this past summer and had an incident where Justin Bieber’s Dad was in the audience. I thought it was bizarre and kind of funny that this kid - who is like the biggest thing since sliced bread, was from this little Canadian town – a place where I spent my formative years. Anyhow his dad apparently got pissed at me for some off-the-cuff remark I made – so naturally I turned it into a song”.
The juxtaposing of musical styles and lyrical themes is something that makes this album a little different than Circo de Teatro. “I purposely made the choice to jump around musically this time. To me it was really the only logical way to sequence a double album. For instance there is a rocking song about Roman Polanski’s 1970s rape of a young girl – ‘Blood In The Aftermath’ followed by the song ‘Dandelion’ that celebrates the innocence and beauty of the common weed”. Always on the lookout for new sounds and musical colors Jude also added cello on three of the albums songs. “I had one song that I thought for sure would be great with a cello part on it, but once I heard Jeff play I threw another song at him, one that seemed to be missing something – and it just came to life with a cello part. Finally I had this little song ‘Borderline’ that I thought would be good with some strings. Jeff came back and laid down four parts – I think the finished piece may be something truly unique – one voice, a baritone ukulele, and a cello quartet”.
Upon nearing completion of the recording of the album, Jude began to search for some images that could visually represent the music. He stumbled upon the art of photographer, Eric Vondy. “When I hit upon Eric’s website the images I saw just blew me away. Not just the photos themselves, but the unique way in which he treats them – they almost look like oil paintings. I immediately envisioned several of his pieces as album covers. Once I started looking at the vastness of his work I knew if I could get him to agree, his images would make a beautiful booklet for the album and would be a wonderful collaboration between his art and my music”. Eric agreed and the result is a stunning 28 page booklet that combines Jude’s lyrics with Eric’s photos – a beautiful piece of art in and of itself.
Once the album is released Jude will begin rehearsals with his ten-piece band to bring the new album to the concert stage with shows already booked for April 2011. “I’m fortunate to work with an incredibly talented group of musicians, and it’s always such a treat to bring the music to the next level with live performances. The most difficult part will be choosing which songs to do”. Will there be costumes this time around? "Well the second act will be all 'Circo' material - so make-up and costumes then for sure, but for the 'Eden' part of the show? - Hmmm, maybe we'll all have to be in fig leaves or something. . .that might make for an interesting evening" laughs Jude.
Born in the nor… Read Full Bio ↴The early years - College, The Wogs & The Sensations
Born in the northeast port of Hartlepool England, Jude grew up with a somewhat nomadic family life moving between England, Australia, and Canada until finally settling in Canada in 1975. While recovering from a bicycle accident, and inspired by the music of 10cc, The Kinks and Kiss, he taught himself to play the guitar and immediately began penning his own songs. His first band, The Vandals, formed from a high school Beatles look-alike contest, drew inspiration from the new wave sounds of the day: The Clash, The Police, and Elvis Costello. After graduating from high school, Jude enrolled in the Music Industry Arts Program at Fanshawe College in 1981, to study recording engineering. Here he co-founded his second band, The Wogs, wrote and recorded multiples of original songs, and won the college’s Best Composition Award both years running. The songs he wrote and recorded during these two years would later comprise his first two CDs – Brand New Shirt & Tie, and Picture Perfect.
After college Jude moved to Toronto and formed his third band, The Sensations, which performed in the Toronto area playing a repertoire of Jude original songs augmented with classic Motown tunes. In 1984 the band were finalists on Toronto radio station Q-107’s homegrown contest, landing Jude’s song, Picture Perfect, on Q-107’s 1984 album. After The Sensations broke up, Jude moved to London England to experience the musical landscape of the UK and play gigs while shopping demo tapes to UK labels. Upon returning to Canada a year later Jude began playing his first solo gigs and unknowingly began his own independent musical career by recording and releasing three cassettes: Long & Sharp (1985), Pigeon Moods (1986), and The Greatest Escape (1987).
Crusoe - Back to the Wonderful & Strange Fruit
In 1990, and with a newly inked publishing deal for two songs and interest from a major record label, Jude relocated to Canada’s west coast and signed with Vancouver management company New Hayden Music. Jude’s first fully-realized, big-budget album, Back to the Wonderful, was completed in 1991 and found a release in both the USA (Caliber Records) and Germany (Eurostar). The album’s first single, Lifeline, reached #25 on the Gavin Report AC radio charts (USA), while other songs were used in movies and soundtracks alongside Elton John and Dan Hill. Two of the album’s tracks were licensed to the world’s most syndicated TV show, Baywatch and the song, It’s a Mystery was covered and released in Asia by film star Veronica Yip. Jude’s follow-up album, Strange Fruit, featured a slightly rockier sound and was released in Canada on TomCat Records. Two songs from this album were licensed to the American and Canadian TV shows, The Hoop Life and Higher Ground.
Drop Dead Scene - Fetish & Neurotic Erotica
After touring the Strange Fruit album and inspired by a business trip to Hollywood and the sights and sounds of the LA music scene, Jude began writing songs for an imaginary rock band he called Fetish. The project soon began to take on a life of its own; characters emerged, a story line was hatched, and the project began to emerge in the shape of a movie script. Jude drafted a synopsis and wrote and recorded an accompanying edgy soundtrack album called, Neurotic Erotica, reminiscent of early David Bowie and Iggy Pop records. Jude then collaborated on a screenplay version of the project with poet, Blake Parker. The finished script, Drop Dead Scene, is the story about the rise and fall of a group of rock ‘n roll misfits, set against a satirical backdrop of music industry hype and was Jude’s first foray into dramatic writing and composing music ‘in character’.
Leland Frank - Slow Resurrection & God's Big Radio
As soon as Drop Dead Scene was finished Jude began work on his next character-driven project – a screenplay titled Slow Resurrection: the Life and Times of Leland Frank. Set in the post-plague future, Slow Resurrection follows the life of cowboy troubadour, Leland Frank and features the ‘soundtrack’ album, God’s Big Radio - a collection of original, traditional-sounding country songs penned by Jude. The story was, again, co-written with Blake Parker and with the help of some grant money eventually evolved and toured as a multi-media theatrical production, featuring poetry, video, and live music. Later the song, In Time We All Must Die, from the soundtrack album was licensed to the TV show, Cold Squad.
Cybersoul - University & Musicals
Jude briefly returned to school in 2000 to complete a Bachelor of General Studies degree with concentrations in Music and English. Inspired by courses in Shakespeare, Modern Canadian Theatre and Creative Writing, Jude began to think about writing a piece for theatre. A conversation about cyborgs and clones spawned the idea for his next project: a Broadway-style musical called Cybersoul. With an out-pouring of creative inspiration, within four months Jude had written and demoed eighteen songs and polished a script. The result is undoubtedly Jude’s most ambitious project to date: an original piece of contemporary musical theatre that combines classic-sounding soul music, cyborgs, and Shakespearean themes, into a story of love, betrayal, murder, revolution, forgiveness and ultimately redemption.
Jude Rain - Angels in the Slipstream
Shortly after completing Cybersoul, Jude received a call from singer, Rain Shields, asking him to produce a song she had written for a spiritual healer from India. This led to a new musical partnership that resulted in the album, Angels in the Slipstream. With Jude providing the music and production and Rain the lyrics, the album became a collection of spiritual songs celebrating the unity of humanity and was released on Slipstream Records in July of 2005.
Terminal City Trilogy - Poetry/Music & Blake Parker
In between writing and recording the ‘Angels’ album, Jude found time to once again work with long-time collaborator, Blake Parker, who was now, unfortunately, battling cancer. This time the pair’s collaboration was based around Blake’s rich back-catalogue of poetry, and resulted in three CDs of original spoken word and music. Titled, The Terminal City Trilogy, the CD collection was released in the fall of 2005 and enjoyed airplay and some notoriety on Canada’s CBC radio. Blake passed away in January, 2007.
Acoustic Trilogy - Uncertain Heaven, Ordinary Dream, Bread & Bones
Throughout this period Jude also worked extensively as a music producer. These projects were often very diverse, ranging from heavy metal, country music and a Tibetan prayer album, to a Doukabour choir CD, a Waldorf School CD, to a couple of Americana CDs by Seattle artist Eva Tree, as well as numerous singer/songwriters projects. Jude also continued to play a weekly house gig that featured a repertoire of acoustic original and cover songs. To augment these performances, Jude learned to play several new instruments: mandolin, baritone ukulele, and dobro. He recorded a trilogy of CDs: Uncertain Heaven (2002), Ordinary Dream (2006), and Bread & Bones (2008). These CDs perfectly captured Jude’s acoustic performances and combined eclectic cover versions of songs by the likes of Kate Bush, Elvis Costello, Prince, and Radiohead, along with Jude’s own original acoustic songs.
Circo de Teatro
In 2009 after 17 diverse CD releases, Jude returned once again to a full-blown artistic album, Circo de Teatro. Inspired in-part by the book Water for Elephants, Circo de Teatro is difficult to pigeon-hole as it is a truly unique sounding album that borrows and combines sounds from Americana, Roots, R&B, Dixieland and Mexican Mariachi music, and forges this with the story and theme of a traveling circus. In a Tom Waits-esque manner the music brings to life the sights and sounds of a circus as well as many of its characters – the misfits, the freaks, the performers, who make their life working on a traveling show. The album has received unanimously rave reviews from Los Angeles, to Tokyo and all throughout Europe and has garnered extensive radio airplay. In January 2010 Jude put together a stellar 10-piece band and presented the album, in its entirety, as a theatrical live show. The show was a sell-out. Live video clips can be seen on this website and at youtube.com
Outskirts Of Eden - the new album
In these days of single song downloads and shuffling iPod playlists being the way of the world what’s an artist doing releasing a classic concept album - something designed to be listened to as a whole entity, from beginning to end, and not necessarily in bite-size pieces? Well that’s exactly what Jude Davison did in 2009 when he released “Circo de Teatro” – the story of a Mexican circus and its colorful characters. The album’s songs, production, and theme, garnered unanimous praise from critics around the world. Americana UK called it “a bold musical statement by an honest, progressive musician not afraid to venture off the beaten path in search of a creative muse”, while All Access Magazine in Los Angeles wrote that "Circo de Teatro is a spectacle of sound . . . think Fellini meets Estrella de Jalisco de Ernnesto Molina after they had coffee at the Country Music Hall of Fame". 2010 saw Jude and his ten-piece band in full costumes and make-up bring the album – in its entirety – to the concert stage, highlights of which can be seen on this website. The album just picked up the "Concept/collaboration album of the year" at the BCIMA awards held in Kelowna BC , April 2011, and Outskirts of Eden was awarded "Best CD/DVD artwork/graphics" at the same awards.
So how do you follow up a classic concept album? With a classic double album of course!? Fast forward to 2011 as Jude has just released his latest album, “Outskirts Of Eden” - a sprawling two disc set of 27 new songs and a stunning 28 page booklet that features the artwork of Arizonan photographer and digital artist, Eric Vondy. In writing the follow-up album Jude’s initial goal was simply to follow the same musical trajectory as “Circo” – borrowing from an eclectic mix of styles and genres, but utilizing similar sounds and instrumentation. But in 2010 Jude reunited with an old musical accomplice and began writing songs for a proposed side project – an album of duets. While the duets album never materialized Jude now found himself with more songs than could be contained on a single CD. Realizing that his next album could be a double he decided to completely embrace that idea and open the musical doors wide open. “I figured that this might be my one and only chance to record my ‘White Album’, or ‘Exile on Main Street’, and who doesn’t want to do that” laughs Jude. Another burst of writing provided even more diversity to the mix and enough songs to make this a truly double album listening experience. The finished product criss-crosses musical genres combining Americana, country, rock, Dixieland, Jazz, blues, and folk into a truly eclectic mix.
While “Outskirts Of Eden” isn’t a concept album a theme of sorts did emerge during the writing process as Jude explains. “For a while I was using the working title ‘New Fruit For Eve’ - which is a lyric taken from the song, ‘Brain Street Boogie’ – a song about the evolution and inevitable decline of Mankind in a short three-minute R&B number. Then I had another song called ‘Magdelina Y Mi Corazon’ that was about Satan seducing Eve in the Garden of Eden – so naturally I decided to take the Eden theme a little bit farther. I wrote another couple of pieces inspired by Milton’s Paradise Lost but then I found myself interested in what might be happening ‘outside’ of Eden and for some reason imagined this to be a rather decadent affair – something like a rave meets the Burning Man festival. Lots of sex, drugs and rock & roll. That’s where the “Outskirts Of Eden” title came from. I guess when you think about it we all are just really living on “the outskirts of Eden”, but whatever the case it gave me a sort of central theme and framework for the album that in turn informed my choice of artwork”.
This album also contains a good dose of humor in some of its songs. “Tattoo Town” is a traditional country song about the perils of getting a tattoo you quickly come to regret, while “Baby Doll” is a straight-faced sentimental paean to a blow-up doll. Another tongue-in-cheek song is “Justin Bieber’s Dad” as Jude explains. “I was playing a gig in Stratford, Ontario this past summer and had an incident where Justin Bieber’s Dad was in the audience. I thought it was bizarre and kind of funny that this kid - who is like the biggest thing since sliced bread, was from this little Canadian town – a place where I spent my formative years. Anyhow his dad apparently got pissed at me for some off-the-cuff remark I made – so naturally I turned it into a song”.
The juxtaposing of musical styles and lyrical themes is something that makes this album a little different than Circo de Teatro. “I purposely made the choice to jump around musically this time. To me it was really the only logical way to sequence a double album. For instance there is a rocking song about Roman Polanski’s 1970s rape of a young girl – ‘Blood In The Aftermath’ followed by the song ‘Dandelion’ that celebrates the innocence and beauty of the common weed”. Always on the lookout for new sounds and musical colors Jude also added cello on three of the albums songs. “I had one song that I thought for sure would be great with a cello part on it, but once I heard Jeff play I threw another song at him, one that seemed to be missing something – and it just came to life with a cello part. Finally I had this little song ‘Borderline’ that I thought would be good with some strings. Jeff came back and laid down four parts – I think the finished piece may be something truly unique – one voice, a baritone ukulele, and a cello quartet”.
Upon nearing completion of the recording of the album, Jude began to search for some images that could visually represent the music. He stumbled upon the art of photographer, Eric Vondy. “When I hit upon Eric’s website the images I saw just blew me away. Not just the photos themselves, but the unique way in which he treats them – they almost look like oil paintings. I immediately envisioned several of his pieces as album covers. Once I started looking at the vastness of his work I knew if I could get him to agree, his images would make a beautiful booklet for the album and would be a wonderful collaboration between his art and my music”. Eric agreed and the result is a stunning 28 page booklet that combines Jude’s lyrics with Eric’s photos – a beautiful piece of art in and of itself.
Once the album is released Jude will begin rehearsals with his ten-piece band to bring the new album to the concert stage with shows already booked for April 2011. “I’m fortunate to work with an incredibly talented group of musicians, and it’s always such a treat to bring the music to the next level with live performances. The most difficult part will be choosing which songs to do”. Will there be costumes this time around? "Well the second act will be all 'Circo' material - so make-up and costumes then for sure, but for the 'Eden' part of the show? - Hmmm, maybe we'll all have to be in fig leaves or something. . .that might make for an interesting evening" laughs Jude.
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