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01. Marc Jonson - Earn That Love
02. Marc Jonson - When A Heart Breaks Down
03. Marc Jonson - Desperate
04. Marc Jonson - Cold Weather
05. Marc Jonson - When I Fall
06. Marc Jonson - Numbers
07. Marc Jonson - Love Radiates Around
08. Marc Jonson - Thru The Void
09. Marc Jonson - Larry Stein
10. Marc Jonson - Real True Lover
11. Marc Jonson - King Of Love
12. Marc Jonson - Little Cricket
ARTIST
TITLE
12 In A Room
FORMAT
LP+CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
MR 374LP MR 374LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
7/6/2018

Munster Records present a reissue of Marc Jonson's 12 In A Room, originally released in 1992. Self-recorded and produced, Marc Jonson's second album came out in 1992, two decades after his debut, the psych folk/baroque pop masterpiece Years (MR 379LP). 12 In A Room was another brilliant display of his gift for beautiful pop music, now available on vinyl for the first time. Includes CD.

"... 'A melody comes into my head 'da-da-dah-da, show me some mer-cy' and I start thinking is that some Motown song from the Sixties? And I go uh-oh, no it isn't, it's mine. I gotta write it down.' So he runs into a candy store and buys a Bic pen and a pad. And then he goes up there to his room, the timeless teen-space where everything stops, where he does his dreaming and his scheming, laughs at yesterday and puts it on tape. From the ELOish opener to the cosmic 'Love Radiates Around', from the Bardo-haunted love ballads to the drowning 'Larry Stein', from the dire conditions of "Cold Weather" to the dire straits of 'Desperate', all the songs on this album were written, recorded and produced in that little 11x14 foot room high above Cornelia Street on a four-track TEAC. It's a little like making your own movie and playing all the parts. Clouds go by -- no clock ticking --night comes down -- guitars strumming -- pulse of the street -- drums smack -- reverb -- mix down to two track -- crash 'till late afternoon -- call up to play it over the phone -- can you hear the words? I'm hungry -- wanna get a bite with me and walk around? But there's a little of the mad scientist, too. 'It's where I get in touch with the thing.' Marc at the controls -- turning all the knobs -- he's everybody in the whole universe and he's blasting off. Head exploding 'till it fits the whole room. Head is room. Room alive! 'A song is a collection of the way a certain period of time feels,' he says. That's where the real weather is, inside." David Dalton