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Living In A Paradise features Jeremy Loops on harmonica.

Recorded by Yanick Bathfield at The Hive
Drums recorded by Dean Bailey at Cloud Studios
Mixed by Dean Bailey
Mastered by Simon Ratcliffe at Sound and Motion Studios

The music video was shot in Zambia, Zimbabwe and at the GreenPop's Earth Fest 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dihSa5U-wjM

Living in a Paradise

Nominated you tonight
You don't know but you're first prize
And all the boys can keep on trying
But they'll have to get in line
because I've nominated you tonight

Calculated the perfect time
Conversation downed with wine
Sweep you right off your feet
Pick up lines with extra cheese
Calculated the perfect line

It's just you and I in this crowd
It's just our hearts thinking out loud
We aint leaving here like this
I'm not leaving here until I taste those lips

All our mates can step aside
You're calling me with those eyes
Pretty girl you're such a tease
But I can see you looking at me
So all our mates can step aside.

Recorded and produced at Anti Motion Studios


Dibs

Dehydration

Chopsticks

This is my brand new song called Weekend Shy Boy. It's out all over the internet for free or for real money. You can download it here too.

Check out the music video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FTlViAkWiU

It's a love story dedicated to everyone who works on weekends.

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/za/album/weekend-shy-boy-single/id1251663694

Google Play Music: https://play.google.com/music/m/Brclaqwg7uwsdo3wj56qsu32nsy?t=Weekend_Shy_Boy_-_Yo_Grapes

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Weekend-Shy-Boy/dp/B0738645J6

Weekend Shy Boy

I Dont Think of Japan

Big Dogs Bark

Methuselah is a project consisting of 4 tracks that started out as what would have been an acoustic EP, but by
adding layers of vocals, percussion and guitars, has turned into Jackal & the Wind’s most exciting project to date.
The project was recorded in the very same room where I, Chris Kruger, wrote our first song in 2013. The isolation of
lockdown set the perfect stage for me to sit and be attentive and honest to the song-writing and recording
process.
The project revolves around the themes of love, loss and isolation. Nature has always been a source of inspiration
to my song-writing, so to take the listener from the forest to the beach and to put emphasis on these natural
landscapes through sound has always been important to me.
I then sent the raw mixes to our drummer, Johan Pretorius and our bassist, Alex Mayers, who then also added their
brilliance to the mix. The lead guitar parts were recorded in Correggio, Italy, where our lead guitarist, Peter Kruger, is
based.

Sailing Seas

Wind To Find You

In a world of illusions and where things don’t always seem the way they are, four young men from the tip of Africa have come together to put pure, palpable, unadulterated emotion into sound. The jackal is what we are as individuals and as a group, the hunger to find something tangible in sound. The wind is there to serve the purpose that not all things we don’t see aren’t there. Emotion and sound can’t be seen but our soul purpose is to try and make those two things as tangible as possible through what we produce through our instruments.

Big Dogs Bark

Jackal and the Wind

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