Jeremiah Jonathan

Good Day Jeremiah Jonathan

Drawing on the likes of Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, Richie Havens, John Martyn, Carole King and James Taylor, 'Good Day' is nonetheless far from a counterfeit time capsule. It's instead about Jonathan identifying the appropriate manner in which to present his songs, and if there's anything he's learned over the years, it's that "Timing is a feeling, and music is a feeling. When you get people playing together, it's about that feeling. I can't see a link between computers and a feeling. Computers don't breathe; they calculate."

'Good Day' was recorded at Ray Davies' Konk Studios, described by Jonathan- who also produced it - as "a beautiful environment in which to get six or seven people together." He didn't stop there, however, cramming a 19-piece string and horn section into the room. "That's what I'm trying to capture with my records," he explains. "The sound of people together..."