Wide Valley is the title of the new project from Madrid-based singer/songwriter J.González. He recently got in touch to share with us his new single Thirty which features musicians Rick Costa and members of St Woods and Owl C. They also feature in the accompanying video as well as Spanish actress Anna Castillo.
His personal influences range from Wilco and Dylan to Nick Cave whose faces appear on the tarot cards of the cave-dwelling fortune teller he seeks out to guide him. Throughout there are plenty of musical references with albums ranging from Coltrane, Dylan and even Jim Reeves, as well as literary influences including Jeff Tweedy’s memoir “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)” and Jack Kerouac especially. If these are all the roots of his musical inspiration then I’m looking forward to more…it could almost form the basis for a new Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
In his own words “Thirty is a song that deals with the cyclical passing of time and the process of self-knowledge in which you realize that you are not the kind of person you expected to be. This song tries to assimilate that feeling of disappointment, transforming it into a less ambitious animal that learns how to breathe again, figuring out the paths that the future holds.”
Thirty was recorded at studio ‘El Invernadero (Madrid)’ with the producer Brian Hunt, and it’s the first song off their brand new album (2020).