Burial‘s amazing album Untrue from 2007 is one of my favourites, so when I heard the teaser of Jamie Woon‘s new song Night Air on singles club of the Guardian Music Weekly Podcast I began to salivate for more.
Londoner Jamie Woon shows considerable talent on his first EP Wayfaring Stranger, he is a great singer with a voice nestling between John Mayer and Antony Hegarty and his own music has R&B qualities.
Although a decent outing, Wayfaring Stranger was never going to set the world on fire. It did however lay the seeds for what is an unlikely but possibly ground-breaking collaboration.
After Burial remixed Wayfaring Stranger they have now worked together to produce a new single, Night Air. It’s magical. The beautiful electronic landscape is perfectly matched by Woon’s luscious vocals.
Jamie Woon – Night Air (mp3)
I can only hope that the album, due for release in spring 2011 from Universal will be equally ethereal. If it is, we may have a much needed male solo singer who makes music which makes you go, ‘WOW’.
About Rylan HoleyMusic blogger on this very site, cellist with Silvermoths, member of London Philharmonic Choir, digital marketer of corporate law and am a multicultural mashup mess.
