Cela faisait bien longtemps que je n'étais pas retourné en terres danoises...Le nom n'est pas neuf, Jeppe est présent dans mon Itunes depuis au moins, l'âge de glace (d'abord avec Junior Senior - Together for one last dance) et il semble ne pas vouloir en sortir.
Comme je lui ai mentionné et comme je vous l'ai déjà écrit, il a cette incroyable voix et aussi ces très beaux arrangements qui envoient tout au milieu des années 80. Vous y retrouverez du Depeche Mode pour les puristes, du Fine Young Cannibals pour les abonnés aux tubes et du Tear For Fears pour moi.
Il est assez amusant de faire écouter ponctuellement quelques unes de vos trouvailles à vos parents (mélomanes) parce qu'ils ont des réflexes et des références qui leur sautent aux yeux et qui souvent nous échappent, jeunes sots.
A la première écoute de Big Boy, ma très chère maman a pensé qu'elle était en face d'une unreleased remastered track des Tear For Fears mais rien du tout, le morceau avait trois mois à peine.
Jeppe prouve qu'avec de la passion, un sacré talent et du travail, on peut faire revivre une décennie.
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It'd been a while since I had returned to Danish lands...
The name isn't new, Jeppe is in my Itunes since at least, the age of ice (first with Junior Senior - Together for one last dance) and he doesn't seem to want to go out of it.
As I mentioned it to him and as I've already written it to you, he has this incredible voice and also these very beautiful arrangements which send you directly in the middle of the 80's. You will find some Depeche Mode for the purists, some Fine Young Cannibals for the subscribers to the charts and some Tear For Fears for me.
It's rather funny to make punctually listen to some of your new tunes to your parents (music lovers) because they have these reflexes and references which are quite obvious to them and which nearly always escape us , young fools.
In the first listening of Big Boy, my dear mom thought that she was in front of an unreleased remastered track of Tear For Fears but the remix had hardly only three months.
Jeppe proves us that with the passion, a sacred talent and work, we can bring back a decade.
1- First, where did you get this incredible 80' spirit voice ?
Thank you for your nice words. I never had lessons about singing techniques so I just kinda sing how it feels best for me, but in my early teens I was this crazy Depeche Mode fan, like I collected any rare b-sides, remixes etc, then I got tired of them, sold all my records to my dad for nothing and started being a crazy Morrissey / Smith fan instead. So I'm pretty good at imitating Morrissey, Martin Gore and Dave Gahan. My first release was a 4 song EP by my first band LudoX when I was 17 years old and it has a really embarrassing Morrissey soundalike moment.
2- Your featuring with Classixx was a huge success, what did it bring to you ?
It was a fun spontaneous thing, I was in Berlin and the Classixx guys sent me the instrumental from LA and I came up with the rest, recorded the vocals and sent it back to them 2 days later.
3- We're all expecting a Jeppe ep. but for when ?
Right now I'm starting to work with some different producers / collaborators on finishing my first album, I'm really excited to see how others will interpret my ideas so far.
4- Your dream duet ?
It'd be a dream to do a duet with country star Tanya Tucker when she was 14 (early 1970's) her voice was so incredible on her first 2 albums.
5- The last time you've been dancing ?
Probably by myself. I often dance when I write songs, I often start writing a song with a simple beat, then dance around and then melody and words come out easily, it sounds really cheesy but it feels really natural to come up with melodies and ideas while your dancing to a good beat you just made (and nobody is watching).
Jeppe - Big Boy (SSION's bang bang rmx)
Jeppe ft. Classixx - I'll get you
JEPPE MYSPACE
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