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FROM THE HERMIT'S BEDROOM in its Sterx Version is available to stream! From The Hermit's Bedroom [The Sterx Versions] by Jean Koning     >>>For the LIMITED CD VERSION, go here>>> From The Hermit's Bedroom marks Jean Koning’s songwriting coming-of-age -Observer Music Monthly Dense and intense…beauty and passion unravels with repeated plays... ★★★★   -Heat Without question his finest [album] since the scorching ‘theLOTUStape’  -The Times It’s been five years since the release of FROM THE HERMIT’S BEDROOM—an album based on experiences of total lockdown. A self-imposed lockdown, that is. After years of premiers, openings, and high-class parties, #JK choose to retreat from public-life. However, experience proved, when there’s less white noise coming from the outside, the inner workings tend to seek them in news clippings, rumors, and fantasies. In the wake of such an epiphany, #JK wrote the stories for his fifth solo album. Inspired by books, ne...

“From The Hermit's Bedroom marks Jean Koning’s songwriting coming-of-age” Observer Music Monthly “dense and intense…beauty and passion unravels with repeated plays” 4* Heat “without question his finest [album] since the scorching ‘theLOTUStape’” The Times It’s been five years since the release of FROM THE HERMIT’S BEDROOM—an album based on experiences of total lockdown. A self-imposed lockdown, that is. After years of premiers, openings, and high-class parties, #JK choose to retreat from public-life. However, experience proved, when there’s less white noise coming from the outside, the inner workings tend to seek them in news clippings, rumors, and fantasies. In the wake of such an epiphany, #JK wrote the stories for his fifth solo album. Inspired by books, news events and the outside world—which found a way to seep in through the doors and windows—and on a daily dose of hallucinogenic mushrooms, he fought against the thought of being imprisoned by his own echoes. During the record...

The Hermit is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing SESSIONS LIVE (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit in which The Hermit a.k.a. #JK loves to work—a stripped-down set, an intimate setting—just a different space. Jean Koning's SESSIONS LIVE (home) concert debut takes place in what looks like close quarters. The singer-songwriter, whose music has served as a beacon for many listeners during his thirty-year career will sit on his beloved bed (or, for the matter, at any place in his bedroom) with a Fender acoustic guitar nearby. Nice detail on the side is perhaps that, in that very bedroom, there's an open doorway to a hidden library, filled with books full of ideas, theories, studies, and stories. As his voice fills the room, it is streamed directly into yours. It's easy to imagine he's in a lighthouse on the cliffs of an unknown region somewhere on Earth instead of the seventies-...

Starting now, til the 30th, you support an Ukrainian relief effort in the process of buying this album. $2 per album sold (from Bandcamp) will be donated to >>>Voices of Children , an organization that provides psychological help for children affected by war. Poor Jericho by Jean Koning