Jakob K.
Your Great Imagination
Jakob K. (Jakob Kl) is a singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger and producer from Switzerland. He started his career in 1979 with the then very successful bands HAMMERFEST (Vlotho DE) and LAZY POKER BLUES BAND (Basel CH). Strengths of his melancholic pop songs are brass arrangements, polyphonic choir passages and sometimes also classical elements. Curiosity and the joy of experimenting with his music are a common thread. The result is fascinating soundscapes and a great diversity - but never arbitrariness. You can feel the boundless joy of music. The hoarse and unpretentious touching voice of Jakob K. adds personality and depth to the songs. "The idea was to produce an album that would have touched and thrilled me as a teenager in the early '70s, and I've always loved a lot of different music, so my pop songs come in different styles like rock, reggae, funk, Blues, Country and Folk. " Eight of the ten songs are original compositions. The two cover versions are independent and personal interpretations; on the one hand a bow to the original, on the other hand typical Jakob K .. The result is a melancholy, sometimes humorous, timelessly old-fashioned album - after a 40-year musical career, the first solo album by Jakob K. ever.