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Record Store Day 2022… Back to Spring-form… April depicts you should pick up some vinyl for your collection… Aficionados know… Back in form for the last time in its delicate existence: From The Hermit’s Bedroom … So, go, US of A, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, Ireland… You have a front-seat ride direct into the world of the Hermit… And it’s a world we love to visit… Over and over again―in any form it presents itself to us… Whether it’s for the Alice Walker’s references of Possessing the Secret of Joy , or the Nov 13, 2015 – Nov 14, 2015 attacks on Paris ―causing 137 (including 7 attackers) deaths, and 416 civilian injured people. It’s an album full of death and hurt. An album which entered the Archive For Pop Music within a year after its release―which is rare and an absolute honour; & in this way it will be preserved forever, until the end of mankind―and remains one of the best written and composed #JK albums in existence, or one of the best written and composed a...

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...

“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-...