Showing posts with label Jean Paul Rena. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jean Paul Rena. Show all posts

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Jean Paul Rena - 2 albums: Can't Be Satisfied / A Thief Known For Stealing Hearts

Album: Can't Be Satisfied
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:26
Size: 108.6 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[4:11] 1. Hoochie Coochie Man
[4:12] 2. Too Drunk
[3:13] 3. Memo From O. S
[3:20] 4. Love Flue
[4:09] 5. Voodoo Chile
[3:07] 6. Torre's Walk
[6:14] 7. Sun Is Shining
[3:01] 8. Crossroad
[3:02] 9. Make Believe
[3:02] 10. Blues
[3:08] 11. Can't Be Satisfied
[4:05] 12. Blue Son
[2:37] 13. Buzz Buzz

Steaming, screaming blues bar rock from the Dutch waterfront with Mississipi Delta influence.

Can't Be Satisfied mc
Can't Be Satisfied zippy

Album: A Thief Known For Stealing Hearts
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:09
Size: 85.1 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[3:40] 1. A Thief Known For Stealing Hearts
[3:32] 2. If Only For A Day
[4:03] 3. Paper Bag
[3:04] 4. Spoonful
[2:44] 5. Who Do You Think You´re Fooling
[3:16] 6. Homework
[3:07] 7. Spanish Trucking
[3:43] 8. Hurricane
[4:17] 9. Worrying Kind
[4:06] 10. My Country´s Got The Blues
[1:34] 11. Hello Baltazar

Jean Paul Rena – Gitaar & Zang; Kit Carrera – Drums (The Deaf); Remco Visker – Gitaar (De Kraaien); Michael Baumgarten – (Soul Sister Dance Revolution).

The fans who followed him since the very first release in 1996 have had to wait a long time but it's finally there. After four previous albums, the fifth album is now released. Exactly 10 years after the previous release. A long time, caused by, inter alia, a "writers block" and because of the fact that the man performs more fun than recording, Rena said there was no need to "bring something out if it does not feel nice". However, this year everything fell into place. The right songs, the best musicians and a great studio. It turned out to be possible.

Everything adds value to the fact that Rena has made this album together with his son Kit Carrera (drums) known for The Deaf. According to Rena, 'family style vibes' give this a special extra dimension. Hence, family on vocals and in the organization of the entire project. I think this makes the whole thing even more special.

Rena explains about the album 'It's a reflection and documentation of my life, my blood, my heroes and my musical journey over the years. I therefore allowed myself to be completely honest and transparent as an artist, singer, guitarist and especially as songwriter and producer. Only so I could use the things in my life and shape them in music. (Translated from Dutch.)

A Thief Known For Stealing Hearts mc
A Thief Known For Stealing Hearts zippy

Monday, January 15, 2018

Jean Paul Rena - A Thief Known For Stealing Hearts

Size: 101,5 MB
Time: 37:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. A Thief Known For Stealing Hearts (3:41)
02. If Only For A Day (3:33)
03. Paper Bag (4:04)
04. Spoonful (3:03)
05. Who Do You Think You're Fooling (2:44)
06. Homework (3:16)
07. Spanish Trucking (3:07)
08. Hurricane (3:42)
09. Worrying Kind (4:17)
10. My Country's Got The Blues (4:06)
11. Hello Baltazar (1:34)

Being from an artist family, he is a blues and guitar addict from the first day he remembers. Growing up in an atmosphere of black African and American roots music he found blues the most natural way to follow this path in his musical career.
All his heroes were fine guitarplayers, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Albert King , B.B. King, Clapton & Stevie Ray Vaughan. After meeting and talking about blues and bands with Stevie Ray a long time ago, he eventually started writing his own material and fronting his own three piece bands, Red Shoes, The Bluesscatters, Jean Paul Rena & Terrawheel, Jean Paul Rena and released four cd´s. New album release 16 December 2017.

Jean Paul Rena´s music is recognizable as emotional mix of Blues, Roots-Music & Rock & Roll.

A Thief Known For Stealing Hearts

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Jean Paul Rena & Terrawheel - 2 albums: Introducing... / Can't Be Satisfied

Album: Introducing...
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:28
Size: 124.7 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2004/2011
Art: Front

[2:20] 1. Enough Is Enough
[4:32] 2. Low Down
[7:27] 3. Jail Cell Wall
[5:14] 4. Mean Mistreater
[3:14] 5. Catfish
[4:25] 6. If I Was You
[2:30] 7. My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble
[5:07] 8. Meat On The Bone
[3:26] 9. Doin' All The Things
[3:44] 10. Money
[5:24] 11. Remember Me
[2:51] 12. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
[4:07] 13. Some Changes

Blues Revue (USA) has described the sound of Jean Paul Rena & Terrawheel as ‘Roadhouse Blues’. During live shows the band shows its true quality, that roadhouse-BBQ smoky character. When listening to the album just close your eyes and you can imagine sitting in a Mississippi juke joint or a true Chicago blues venue, hollering from an Alabama porch or hanging in a gung-ho New York City mobster lounge.

No pussyfooting; the gaps between the songs are not long enough for you to recover. The tight-knit hard ballin' sound is held together by groovin' drums and bass, allowing JP to overlay a dark howlin' voice and a distinctly wailing ‘ crash and burn’ guitar. Punctuated and supported by familiar echoes of a venom-minal ‘Mississippi saxophone’ in the tradition of Marion "Little Walter" Jacobs, the best harmonica player who ever set foot on this planet.

Ask Jean Paul Rena where the future of his band lies and he’ll tell you: “It’s out there!” Out there where Rock and Soul meet the Blues, where Led Zeppelin meets John Lee Hooker, where the nail hits the wood. A deadly combination of dedication, heart, skill and quality. Blending originals with a dash of Albert King and Muddy Waters. Honest traditional raw roots-rock, drawing heavily on Chicago and Mississippi-delta influences as well as inspiration from Texas axe-men.

Jean Paul hails from a little old Dutch seaport, of which the name has proven to be a tongue-breaker to many, a foreigner. Story has it that JP used to call in the fishermen's ships when heavy weather was imminent and so became a blues-shouter. Ascertaining his raw and powerful ‘dark-brown’ voice this could well be the true reason how the head-honcho blues-scatter acquired that necessary ingredient to Terrawheel’s gritty blues-rock blend.

Introducing... mc
Introducing... zippy

Album: Can't Be Satisfied
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:17
Size: 108.3 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:10] 1. Hoochie Coochie Man
[4:12] 2. Too Drunk
[3:12] 3. Memo From O.S
[3:19] 4. Love Flue
[4:09] 5. Voodoo Chile
[3:07] 6. Torre's Walk
[6:14] 7. Sun Is Shining
[3:00] 8. Crossroad
[2:58] 9. Make Believe
[3:01] 10. Blues
[3:07] 11. Can't Be Satisfied
[4:05] 12. Blue Son
[2:37] 13. Buzz Buzz

In December the night falls early in the South. It's a quarter past four on the road from Memphis, Tennessee, to Clarksdale, Mississippi. Twilight has set in. I throw another CD in the machine & set the cruise control to maximum. Just when I see the exit to Helena, home of the King Biscuit Flower Hour blues tradition, a very danceable out-of-left-field version of Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Koochie Man" starts rocking the car. I don't need seven doctors to say I'm born for good luck: got my lovely Deb'rah on my side & a 'hoochie koochie son of a guitar' almost blasting the windows out. For a moment or two my heart skips a beat when an officer behind me turns on his blue lights. Maybe I'm 20 decibels above the local limit. But he turns around on screeching rubber on the way to a worse crime. "Rock ' roll, I'm on a mission" my man Jewan-Paul belches out & the pedal hits the metal to get us in time to the Crossroads of the Blues, where Highway 61 meets Highway 49. Standing on the crossroads, not knowing what way to choose." Where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. With a Dutch voice electrifying me on the way to the cradle of it all. Where Ike Turner went to school to become the inspiration for the greatest guitar-moments of the Spencer Davis Group, the Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, Jeff Beck, the Stones (& other British rockers 'pillaging the blues') & three generations of Dutch heroes, from Cuby & the Blizzards via Barrelhouse to Julian Sas. In this part of the States more blues than oil wells up from the soil. We're on the holy grounds of Muddy Waters, Model T-Ford; Junior Parker, Super Chikan Johnson and his Fightin' Cocks, John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke, W.C. Handy, Eddie Boyd & Ike's sidekick Jackie Brenson (who invented rock 'n roll with "Rocket 88"). ~Evert Wilbrink

Can't Be Satisfied mc
Can't Be Satisfied zippy