SHAPESHIFTER
Sep 10th, 2021
CREDITS
All songs written by Tessa Rose Jackson, except “I’m Not Leaving” (Tessa Jackson & Darius Timmer) and of course “Blowin’ In The Wind” (Bob Dylan)
All songs produced by Tessa Rose Jackson & Darius Timmer
Mixed by Darius Timmer
Mastered by Darius Timmer
Tessa Rose Jackson - Vocals, Guitars, Keys, Bass and random percussion; Darius Timmer - Piano & Additional Keys; Kevin van Moorsel - Guitars; Dan Huijser - Drums & Percussion; Dave Wismeijer - Bass Guitar; Sam Rowe, Phoebe Snelling, Kasia Ziminska, Helen Sanders-Hewett - Strings on “Strange World”, “Take It As It Comes” and “Shapeshifter” (arr. Sam Rowe); Pat Cleaver - Double Bass on “Paris At Midnight”; Randell Heye - Trumpet on “Paris At Midnight” and “Shapeshifter”; Wouter Rentema - Backing Vocals on “Shapeshifter”; Benjamin Longman - Electric Guitar solo on “Strange World”; Josephine Odil & Simone van Vugt - Backing Vocals on “Health”; Frank Wienk (Binkbeats) - Additional Production & Percussion on “Shapeshifter”
Artwork by Bibian Bingen
ABOUT SHAPESHIFTER
During 2020 I noticed that I was gravitating - as a listener - to more intimate, human-sounding music. Nick Drake. Joni Mitchell. I wanted to hear skin on guitar string, or a voice that sounded as clear and close as if that person were sitting right next to me. Looking back, it makes sense that I was seeking out that human touch in a time that was so robbed of it. Just like everybody, it was a hard time for me. Christmas had been loving but distant, it was a bloody cold winter. In my head, so many conflicting thoughts were twisted around one another as I was trying to make sense of the situation. I needed to vent. And so, in January 2021 I started writing. Like therapy, pretty much. I wanted to make something warm, something soothing. A blanket I could throw around myself and snuggle into. And not only that: I wanted to share it. And so to help me finish this album, I called on many old friends who lent their musicianship to these songs which means that now (for me) this record is fuelled not by solitariness, but friendship instead.