"Rock outside the box"
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Jam Esther is a quiet refusal of any stereotype. Her music cuts across styles.
Beautiful Monday plays with Mondays' bad reputation, overturning schemes.
Full Sails is a song about the fear and excitement of sailing in search of fortune.
Bless This Mess is a song about chaos leading to creation, quite literally.
in a nutshell
Outside the box discreetly, Jam Esther is a quiet refusal of any stereotype.
She's an unconventional human and musician who won't fit any standard
definition.
Her music could be defined as alternative rock, but wanders
across various styles.
She released her first single Bless This Mess on 11/06/2021, but her love story with music spans a long time.
Songwriting since teenager, she literally went across borders through a journey made of bands and live performance mostly. She always kept writing and now the best of her production so far, plus more to come, is being released.
Beautiful Monday plays with Mondays' bad reputation, overturning schemes as it often happens with Jam Esther's music.
After a dreamy intro, the song progressively picks up groove and energy, reaching its peak with the chorus and the second part.
Just like it happens within a day, ideally.
Full Sails is about the fear and excitement of sailing in search of fortune.
It blends some elements of hard rock with an upbeat riff recalling reggae
and a punk-ish climax.
Bless This Mess is a song about chaos leading to
creation.
It's an alternative rock song that blends a pretty familiar
blues chord progression with odd rhythms and an exotic riff.
Bless This mess, indeed!
long story short
Jam Esther discovered music very young, when she started playing toy
instruments around the age of four. Her discovery proceeded mostly by
ear and guts for many years to come. Gradually moving to real instruments, she learnt the basics of theory and reading on piano, at
six years old.
That single year will be a precious foundation of theory on which to build, along with a pretty sharp ear.
Jam started
writing music and songs around the age of 11, on piano first, but in the
meantime she was discovering rock music.
In the following years she got
to know and try new instruments and got her first guitar at 16. Jam
had already been jamming (pun intended) with other local musicians
since 14 and now they were having garage jams with electric instruments,
covering classic and contemporary rock.
Her twenties were an
intense and incredibly formative time of live performance.
New to the stage, she started playing covers in a 4-piece rock band, performing and touring continuously as rhythm/lead guitarist and backing vocalist for 3 years.
After that, Jam started bringing to life her original project. A lot of songs which had only existed in full in her mind finally started to be recorded and come to light. Having the chance to play and record all instruments, Jam can finally listen to the mix she always imagined. Since then, she'll always pursue the aim of having her music roam free and please as many people as possible.
Along with numerous collaborations with bands and a seasonal tour with a big band as a session musician, the following years saw a slow but steady progress. Jam performed her music live with a trio and appeared on local tv channels. Her music was broadcast on the national radio station Rai Radio 1, along with her interviews.
Shortly after, Jam arrived
in the UK. In spite of a rough start made of very hard work and
basically no way of making music consistently, she never stopped looking
for inspiration and connections.
Oh, and she never stopped writing!
So apart from jamming around London, she eventually went back to the stage in a hard rock tribute band and played iconic venues like the 100 Club, the Monarch and the Windmill. Then she studied at the I.C.M.P. London and got a Guitar National Higher Diploma, to top up her theory and technique.
She hopes to hit the stage again soon with her originals, so please support if you'd like that too and... Stay tuned!