Melody As Truth is happy to announce a new album from Jonny Nash.
“Point Of Entry”, his first solo album in four years, builds from the experiences of his recent forays into folk traditions (2021’s “Poe” and 2021’s There Up, Behind The Moon), but points the compass delicately inwards, casting aside any conceptual frameworks in exchange for a simple desire to imagine and explore a “personal folk music”.
Employing a stream-of-consciousness approach to writing and recording, Nash’s guitar takes centre stage, it’s melodic lines painting a world that resonates with positive yet contemplative energy. From the smudged acid-folk bliss of “Theories” and “Eternal Life” to the layered acoustic guitars of “All I Ever Needed” and the delay-soaked Durutti Column-esque “Knife”, a wide variety of textures weave their way through the album’s eleven tracks.
This is however much more than a guitar album; “Point Of Entry” draws on a rich and diverse palette to achieve it’s purpose. The delicate saxophone work of ambient-jazz contemporary Joseph Shabason swells on “Ditto” and “Light From Three Sides”. Cascading piano lines ripple through the waters of “Face of Another”, whilst echoes of his work with Gigi Masin and Young Marco as Gaussian Curve appear in the dancing synth sequences of “Ditto” and “Golden Hour”. Nash’s reverb-laden voice also appears for the first time since 2016’s “Exit Strategies”, used delicately throughout the album to conjure up a world of dusk and golden light.
Combining the effortless human touch and naivety of earlier Melody As Truth releases with widened scope and vision, “Point Of Entry” is arguably his most complete work to date.
