Jon Gomm signs to Kscope
Jon Gomm has signed to Kscope!
Having as an independent artist since the release of his debut album in 2003, now, singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist Jon Gomm has signed to Kscope, marking the first time he has teamed together with a record label.
Speaking about signing to Kscope, he says, “I’ve always been known as a fiercely independent artist, with whatever successes and failures all achieved by my own merit. In reality, it was a team, with my wife Natasha as my manager for over a decade. But when our daughter was born, something had to give, so she wisely quit.
So after my own internal battle like when Clarke Kent fights a drunken Superman clinging to his old powers, I had to admit to myself that a big part of my working alone was that I was scared of being rejected. And because of that I’d fostered a lot of mistrust, to protect myself. I realised that it’s not compromising my ethics to work with other independents who can help me. And maybe it was time to finally grow up. As soon as I mentioned to friends I was looking for a label, Kscope came up twice – once from Dan Tompkins [TESSERACT], and once from someone who works in music promotion, and they both thought it would be a good home for me. So I met with the label, and they just want to help artists they love release music. It’s that simple. They don’t want to change me or my music or control it. And they are so, so patient. Thank fuck.
It feels like a symbiosis of two independent entities. I have not been eaten. In fact they’ve given me freedom I never had.”
Alongside signing with Kscope, Jon Gomm has released a brand new recorded version of his hit song Passionflower for Spotify. The song initially went viral online, with the video passing six million hits at the time, resulting in national TV appearances in the UK, Portugal, Holland, Brazil and Turkey. Filmed in November 2019 fans can watch a recently recorded clip of Jon performing Passionflower at the Paul McCartney Auditorium, Liverpool.
Speaking about the song that changed his life, Gomm says, “judging by what people tell me, it’s the song everyone wants to be able to stream. Living in the inner city in Leeds, your “garden” is a 12-foot square concrete yard glued to a million others. I once threw some passion fruit seeds in the dirt, almost as a joke. One day I came back from tour, and went out into the yard and there was green everywhere. I traced the vines back to this little pot where I’d thrown the seeds. It was like Roald Dahl had written this huge plant across my life. Then the first day of summer arrived, and this plant tasted sunlight, and buds all over it burst open into flowers pulsating with life. Thousands of miles from its tropical home, lost in the grey urban north, turning seemingly pointless struggle into vivid existence.
So I wrote this song for it, and my friends made a video of me playing it, and the song then started to live out its own meaning, as it went from nothing, just from people sharing it, into a this life-changing phenomenon, so that I ended up playing on TV shows and stages all over the world, touring Europe, Australia, North and South America, Africa, China. Famous people told me they were fans, my childhood music magazines sprung to life.”
Watch the official music video for Passionflower here:
For more information on Jom Gomm like his official page on Facebook.
