Lead Single for I've Changed EP (Street Date - 3/31/2022)

These Old Streets

jawima - These Old Streets

After releasing the full-length “Weekends” in 2020 (released via Wicked Wax in Amsterdam), a string of singles, collaborative projects, and EPs in 2021, Jonny Tobin releases another full-length solo album “Together” to kick off 2022. Facing isolation and loneliness (as many people in the world did throughout 2020), the album is a collection of tracks that Jonny made to channel negative feelings into something hopeful and forward-looking.

While the album was created without any other collaborators, many of the tracks on the album relate back to an experience that personally inspired Jonny, or to a connection with someone else. “Take Your Time” was an evolution of a Masego remix contest submission from the summer of 2020 (while Jonny didn’t win the contest, he received a memorable shoutout from Masego on Instagram). On “What I Didn’t Do”, Jonny features a clip from friend and fellow musician William Chernoff speaking about unrealized potential and some of the negative self-talk that can hold people back. “Vivid Dreams” also features vocals by way of a chopped lead vocal from the Jonny Tobin-produced track “Mars” by Janette King. Closing off the album is the introspective track “Leonidus”, which was born out of a beat Jonny created for Loop Sessions, a monthly beatmakers hang. The track expanded into a tribute to Jonny’s friend Leonidus Edwards who passed away suddenly in 2021.

“Together” represents Jonny’s response to all the tragedy, despair, and grief of the past 2 years - holding space for those emotions but also seeking to provide glimmers of optimism with an almost playful delight, as the compositions encapsulate his bright outlook on the world. 

credits:

all production, mixing - Jonny Tobin
album mastering - Shaquille Headley (The Drum Temple)

"What I Didn't Do" features Will Chernoff (spoken) and a sample of Thad Bailey-Mai playing rhodes from Will Chernoff's song "Reliable Friend".

"Vivid Dreams" features a vocal sample from Janette King's song "Mars".

"Leonidus" features spoken words from Leonidus Edwards in some of our final conversations before his passing. Love you and miss you my brother.

What I Didn't Do

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faith's interlude

This song was created on a Sunday afternoon in August 2017. I had been drawing influence musically from a Nigerian children’s gospel song I grew up listening to when my grandma was staying with us. Still early in my writing stage (just under a year of writing music), this song came rather seamlessly. (I did make a few edits, of course, as recently as last year.)

This is one of those songs that truly has no deeper, esoteric kind of meaning. It’s the purest representation of being in tune with myself through the music. It’s a song about what music does for me on an emotional, intellectual & spiritual level and sharing that with the people.

I’d performed it live for four years —at every open mic, basement gig, and local venue I could get a chance at — before ever making the studio recording. I knew I was sitting on something special, so I took my time with it. But now is that time. And I want everyone to sing along with me.

LYRICS

'Kechi
Chai
Na na
Long time coming
Sweetest melody
It's like

 Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special
Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special

Melodies harmonize
Don't try to criticize my vocals
That was realized through classical and local
'Kovsky and Kuti, Bilal and Beethoven
Just like Lupe, rap wasn't my first chosen
Then I became open to the rhyme, play the rhythm in my heart
Bells chime, telling my own izm like Badu
Call it 'Kechi-izm, but the shit ain't catchy
Spit my flow, can't nobody else match me
Actually it ain't just about the flow
Put the Durag on it
From the velvet to the silk, anyway I don it
This songs about what's embedded deep within
But if I go deep within her in bed then that's a sin
I knew a Sim, I hadn't seen her since
Got so cynical
Life's no Cinderella or Sims
Or wonderland like Little Simz
Anointed by Simba
But seems it ain't simple no more
I feel I'm tryna make a deal staring at three doors
Can't tell what's in store
My hands getting sore
Conga for hours, I'm soaring, I'm so empowered
Swallowing the beat cuz music is my remedy
As I sing over this melody

Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special
Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special

Melodic dictation, ain't that a situation
Listening to inner tunes while y'all having conversation
But it ain't oral, it's aural - skills for the drums
Y'all still talking shit, block my ears with both thumbs
Ask yourself
Do you listen for content?
For the lyrical views or the musical elements?
Cuz I've spent days on the same line, the same beat
I even skip lunch time
Food for thought, my treat
Let it thaw out in my mental
Pause, reflect, repeat
Eating up the instrumental, let it thaw out in my mental
Pause
See the effect I caused
My mind's sharp like the teeth on jaws
Or the sharp on D, it fits the harmony
I fit the armor that God sent me
When the walls fall down, the final trumpet sounds
And I'll be found bound for the heavenly
As I sing over this melody

Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special
Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special

Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special
Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special
Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special
Melody in my heart
It's the start of part of something special

Melody

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VIDEOCLIPE LINK: (MONO) https://youtu.be/NgTq27FkUgU?si=wPYaH-DUuE7yrZ2G

(STEREO) https://youtu.be/3aRGOn-db4Y

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