"delicious + nutritious - repetitious x ambitious = CHElicious!"- CRJ
CHEography : life
AMERICAN ARTIST LEFT NEW YORK TO LAND UPON
EUROPE'S DOORSTEP IN ORDER TO PERSUE A
CHARMING CAREER IN THE WORLD OF ART...
ARMED WITH PAINTBRUSHES -UNPUBLISHED
MANUSCRIPTS... SONGS&POEMS, HE DECIDED TO
COMMIT HIMSELF FULLY TO THE VITRIOLIC WORLD
OF THE STRUGGLING ARTIST -AND THEIR
SOMETIMES FRUITFUL PLIGHT.
WORKING AS SONGWRITER - AND PLAYING SONG-
WRITER/VOCALIST IN 23 ROCK/POPGROUPS AND
PULLING OF A HANDFUL OF SMALL ARTSHOWS
FOR HIS PAINTINGS WERE HARDLY UNUSUAL.
STRUGGLES WERE MANY--- PENURY, USUAL....
AND HOMELESSNESS --- OBVIOUS BUT HEY, DIDN'T
SINATRA SAY “IF I CAN MAKE IT THERE... I'LL MAKE
IT ANYWHERE” ?
BUT SOMEONE ELSE SAID “REWARD YOURSELF...
YOUR -SELF - HOLDS REWARDS -SO BE YOURSELF!”
2001 HE WAS INTRODUCED&SIGNED TO GET PHYSICAL
FROM THE START. HIS 1ST 2002 RELEASE “ONE&ONE”
(A COLLABORATION WITH M.A.N.D.Y.& BOOKA SHADE
- AND A 1ST EVER TELEVISED LIVE RADIOSHOW
PERFORMANCE WITH THE LEGENDARY DJ T.
FOLLOWED SHORT AFTER) STARTED THE BALL
ROLLING (THE 1ST ISSUE 12”
DISPLAYING HIS OWN
COVER ART).
2003 BROUGHT FORTH “I DON'T KNOW?” WHICH
TOPPED THE BELGIUM DANCE CHARTS TWICE!
AND PUT THE ARTIST ON THE MAP... WITH
THOUSANDS OF BROKEN-HEARTS TO
RESPOND&RELATE.
2005 IGNITED THE SELF-PRODUCED, CONTROVERSIAL
LO-FI MASTERPIECE“DISLOCATED GENIUS” -WHICH
ALSO
DONS AN ORIGINAL CANVAS-WORK COVER-
WE SHAN'T
GET INTO THE
POLITICS OF THAT
COVER... THIS IS NOT
THE TIME,
NOR THE PLACE.
AFTER COUNTLESS SHOWS... FEATURINGS... DRAMAS...
AND OBVIOUS MOUNTAIN
CLIMBING
2007 SEEMS TO BE
THE MOMENT FOR THE LONG-AWAITED FOLLOW-UP
-ENTITLED: “CHATTERTON” ---THERE HAS BEEN MUCH
DEBATE ON THE MEANING&
CONTENT,
BUT WE SHAN'T
DELVE INTO THIS EITHER (SORRY).
IN A WORLD WITH SO MANY “MOLDED&MANUFACTURED”
ARTISTS (DARE I USE
THE WORD
-ARTISTS-?) IT IS A
PLEASURE (OR TO SOME, A HINDRANCE) TO
INTRODUCE
AN ARTIST WHOSE
AIM IS FRIGHTFULLY TRUE
(simply CHElicious...
not just delicious)...
ladies and gentlemen............ Chelonis R. Jones.
Sounds Like
CHEography : songs
chelonis r. jones "one & one", "blackout!"
(GPM 12") 2002
chelonis r. jones "I don't know?"
(GPM 12") 2002
chelonis r. jones "I don't know? remixes"
(GPM 12") 2003
booka shade ft. chelonis r. jones "s.t.a.r.r.z."
(momento lp & amp;12") 2004
booka shade ft. chelonis r. jones "stupid questions"
2004
chelonis r. jones "le bateau ivre"
(GPM 12") 2004
chelonis r. jones "deer in the headlights"
(GPM 12") 2005
chelonis r. jones "dislocated genius"
(debut cd album) 2005
röyksopp ft. chelonis r. jones "49 percent"
(single/12" & cd: "the understanding") 2005
röyksopp ft. chelonis r. jones "go away"
(cd: "the understanding" (deluxe version)) 2005
dj remo ft. chelonis r. jones "empire"
2005
dj remo ft. chelonis r. jones "black sabrina"
2005
dj remo ft. chelonis r. jones
"black sabrina" -the remixes-" 2005
bioground ft. chelonis r. jones "complexity"
(cd "love addiction")
2005
huntemann ft. chelonis r. jones "terminate the fire"
(12") 2005.
belivers ft. chelonis r. jones
"(you'll never change) the world" (black mix 12") 2005.
belivers ft. chelonis r. jones
"(you'll never change) the world" (white mix 12") 2005.
franz & shape ft. chelonis r. jones "god lost my address"
(12" ep "destination / location" & cd "acceleration") 2005.
chelonis r. jones "na na na" featured on
GPM label anniversary cd 2006
huntemann ft. chelonis r. jones "scary love"
(12"prt.2&cd: "fieber") 2006.
röyksopp ft. chelonis r. jones "go away"
(cd: "röyksopp's night out - live ep" 2006.
pinktronix ft. chelonis r. jones "baby boo"
(12" & amp;cd "right on delay") 2006.
pinktronix ft. chelonis r. jones "crash!"
(12" & amp;cd "right on delay") 2006.
tennishero ft. chelonis r. jones "alone"
(12") 2006.
dj remo ft. chelonis r. jones "sabrina says..."
(12") 2007.
pinktronix ft. chelonis r. jones
"crash!" and "baby boo" remix. (12") 2007.
marc romboy vs. chelonis r. jones "helen cornell"
(12") 2007.
chelonis r. jones "dirty lipstick" featured on
GPM 5th year label anniversary 2cd 2007.
eddie thoneick presents female deejays
ft. chelonis r. jones "if only" - 2007.
> tocadisco ft. chelonis r. jones "shrine"
12": remixes by audiofly, crookers, extrawelt
cd album "solo": shrine (original)
Superstar Recordings - 2007.
> crackdown ft. chelonis r. jones "the wassily chair"
> chelonis r. jones "deer in the headlights - hell rmx"
featured on "body language six" mixed
by junior boys
get physical music - 2008.
> marc romboy vs. chelonis r. jones
"helen cornell (the remixes)"
systematic recordings - 2008.
> el carlitto ft. chelonis r. jones "on and on"
parquet recordings - 2008.
> c. banx ft. chelonis r. jones "destination unknown"
kostbar musik - 2008.
> urban hussy [edwin james | chelonis r. jones]
"mardi gras"
elevation recordings - 2008. myspace / urban hussy
> marc romboy's album "contrast"
vs. chelonis r. jones: "the beat", "side fx"
and "the slam!"
systematic recordings - 2008.
> bush II bush ft. chelonis r. jones "my salvation"
plastic city - 2008.
> jochen pash ft. chelonis r. jones "mathematics"
(12") caballero recordings - 2008.
> pinktronix ft. chelonis r. jones "back to black" remixes
spectra - 2008.
> [alex dandi | chelonis r. jones] 4gottenfloor
album "the forgotten floor" - 2008. myspace / 4gottenfloor
>
spektre feat. chelonis r. jones "the ride" ep
suruba - march 2009.
>
chelonis r. jones "rehabilitation" ep
systematic recordings - january 2009.
>
marc romboy feat. chelonis r. jones
"contrast (remixes)" double 12"
systematic recordings - february 2009.
>
chelonis r. jones "pompadour" ep
systematic recordings - march 2009 - OUT NOW
>
[alex dandi | chelonis r. jones] 4gottenfloor
album "the forgotten (dance) floor pt. 01" - april 2009. www.soundcloud.com/4gf-records/ - OUT NOW
>
chelonis r. jones' album "chatterton"
systematic recordings - april 2009 - OUT NOW
Brilliant corners ----------
All hail the Dislocated Genius of
Chelonis R. Jones's electronic soul San Francisco Bay Guardian, By Johnny Ray Huston
In the last year of the 20th century, Kodwo Eshun charted musical forms of Afrofuturism in the book More Brilliant than the Sun. Six years into the 21st century, I wonder what Eshun would think of Chelonis R. Jones.
"Camera! Lights! Action!" The words at the very beginning of Jones's debut Dislocated Genius herald an ambivalent performance. "I didn't want to burn it now, burn cork to dance and sing," he soon recites with lack of affect over a
marching beat. The detached attitude and robotic melody outdo Pete Shelley's "Homosapien." In the company of this lyric,
and Jones's cover painting for Dislocated Genius, the first utterance in the next song — "Life is hardly ever fair," probably
sung by New York–to–Europe voyager Jones, but treated to sound like a sample from an old record player — arrives with
vital irony.
The eight-minute track that follows, "Middle Finger Music," moves through menaced verses and curses over the type of automaton beat that Kraftwerk would factory stamp with approval before being overtaken by abstract daydreams and
nightmares. Crying gulls and King Tubby–like dub motifs flicker through the song's lonely, vast inner and outer space as
Jones near-whispers the titular words to himself, his voice multitracked into a self-harassing chorus. Here, and on the
gloomily humorous next song, "Vultures" (sample lines: "They circle-dive inside my dome ... They never leave my ass
alone"), paranoia pervades the atmosphere, which Jones renders like the imaginative painter he happens to be when he
isn't making music.
As a writer and singer, Jones possesses many voices, and if on "Middle Finger Music" he both listens to them and claims
they'll lead him to his doom, there and elsewhere on Dislocated Genius they yield extraordinary results. This recording's
avant-reaches have bewildered some club music writers who know of Jones strictly as the name behind a pair of sublime
and relatively straightforward — if poetic — soulful house-inflected singles, "I Don't Know" and "One and One." On those
tracks (as well as another mathematics-of-love number, "49 Percent," recorded with Röyksopp), Jones's voice trembles
and swoons like that of Off the Wall–era Michael Jackson — that is, when he isn't more freely vamping like a diva.
Describing a movie-ready tearful good-bye by train tracks, "I Don't Know”'s vocal outdoes some of the sensational male
testifying of early Chicago house: Jones laughs bitterly to himself and seems to cradle his own pain while reaching deep
into his chest for low notes as he feels a — that word again — "burn" in describing his crushed passion. He can also do
butch swagger — witness the quarrelsome and smart (rather than daft) punk of "L.A. Mattress."
Jones's talent is exciting because it reaches from pop melody to stranger realms; time and time again, the unique perspective of his songs dissolves into embattled technological chatter. The chorus of "The Hair" is as memorable as the
one to Wire's "I Am the Fly," and even more layered in its critique of a certain greed, and yet it's sung in a tone that's a
sly update on Smokey Robinson. In More Brilliant than the Sun, Eshun explored "Myth Science" through written or typed
words; Jones's "Mythologies (Myths I and II)" does so in sound, with skepticism — his voice is processed in a way that
brings the sweet but stinging theoretical distance of Scritti Politti's honeybee R&B to mind. A motif from "Mythologies"
returns in "Deer in the Headlights," further proving the formidable post-Baldwin, post-Basquiat methods within his
fractured madness.
By the end of Dislocated Genius, as "Debaser" forms an abstract contemporary take on the stripped-down funk of very
early Prince, Jones has made it clear that blackface is only the surface and the start of a defiant creative imagination just
as comfortable being mauve, olive green, or "ho-ish pink." In the final minutes of this extraordinary album, he's turned
Rimbaud's “The Drunken Boat” into a love song dedicated to someone who "defecate(s) words like Molly Bloom," and
managed to make the vocal melody float like a spectral ship on an ocean at night.
He may be a "laughingstock since the age of 13," but this self-described "gaudy cross of Streisand and Curtis Mayfield" is
still traveling. Where is he headed next? A place I'd like to hear. SFBG johnny@sfbg.com
(used with the kind permission of the San Francisco Bay Guardian, sfbg.com)
Röyksopp feat. Chelonis R. Jones - "49 Percent"
on their album "The Understanding" and
on these remixes:
Röyksopp feat. Chelonis R. Jones - "Go Away"
on their albums "The Understanding (Deluxe Version)" and
"Röyksopp's Night Out (Live EP)"
LIVE at Rockefeller Music Hall, Oslo, Norway:
I met Chelonis during his performance at the Fetisch Club in
Athens. We started talking and the talk wouldn't end. To be
honest, i would like to have his opinion about everything that
bothers my mind.. Electropop's first cosmosexual
antihero, blessed yet cursed, chelonis is a cult symbol.
- do you consider yourself a dislocated genius?
I CONSIDER MYSELF BLESSED- AND CURSED
-THERE IS MUCH BLOOD ON THE SOIL THAT MAKES
MY FLOWERS GROW (not water, but BLOOD, and sometimes
urine as well---- i know exactly what i am. trust me.
'dislocated' is probably/sadly an understatement... WHICH IS
WHY I'LL NEVER BE A BIG SUPERSTAR).
- would you go to bed with chelonis r jones?
NEVER NEVER NEVER! I LIKE PEOPLE WHO ARE EXACTLY
THE OPPOSITE OF MYSELF (I LOVE INTELLIGENCE...
BUT I'M SO INTENSE AT TIMES... AND THIS ANNOYS ME
WHEN I OBSERVE MYSELF OUTSIDE OF MYSELF!)
- do you miss the big apple?
NO! TO ME -THE STAGE IS THE BIG APPLE... MY WORK
IS THE BIG APPLE... THE (SOMETIMES) BRILLIANT PEOPLE I
MEET ARE THE BIG APPLE... MY BED... MY SOUL! THIS IS ENOUGH.
-(YOU make the SPACE special.... NOT the PLACE which makes YOU!)
- would you ever write gospel lyrics?
NO.
- which cartoon character could be chelonis r jones?
THAT'S A GOOD ONE (RESPECT! HA HA HA)
"DROOPY" -he is this ugly little small dog
everybody laughs at him, they think he is too
funny looking/weak&small to get himself out of certain situations
(you know - he should be BIGGER and STRONGER... or act/look
like THE HERO type)
--HE SOMEHOW WINS IN THE END, AND KICKS EVERYONE'S ASS;
LIFTING HOUSES AND TREES ...AND THEN KICKS THE BAD GUY'S (DOG'S) ASS
ALL THE WAY TO ASIA!!! -I LOVE THE ANTIHERO /THE UNDERDOG!
- would you play in a porn movie?
HELL NO! WHAT WOULD I HAVE TO SEXUALLY OFFER?! HA HA HA
THE WORLD HAS (sadly) SEEN IT ALL!
MANY HAVE SAID THAT IM ALMOST ASEXUAL (i don't radiate hardcore
sexual vibes.....) -THIS IS INTERESTING, BECAUSE I'M FASCINATED
WITH MEN&WOMEN, YET I'M ALSO BORED/SCARED& CONFUSED
OF/ BY THEM!
I AM A -COSMOSEXUAL- (part hetero&bi&homo&
lesbian&trans&asexual&spiritual)
i've worn/wear/meditated the religions of all these coats= COSMOSEXUAL)
-I'M ELECTROPOP'S FIRST COSMOSEXUAL !!!
-do you consider art as a kind of masturbation?
ART IS ONE OF 2 THINGS:
A PREGNANCY........................ OR RAPE!!!
- present of chelonis r jones and future plans?
TO KEEP CHALLENGING PEOPLE/MYSELF
TO STAY TRUE TO MYSELF
TO BRING FORTH MY NON-PERFECTIONS...MY MISTAKES (to stand by these flaws -proudly)
TO IMPROVE ON MYSELF, AS WELL
TO STAY ORIGINAL (even if people laugh OR hate it... OR IT KILLS ME!)
TO GO BEYOND THE TRENDINESS OF CURRENT FADS
AND OTHER SENSELESS BULLSHIT
TO SOMEHOW TOUCH A FEW PEOPLE ALONG THE WAY...
(i somehow have this little cult following going on... it's very special how
a few people are willing to embrace something which they are not
use to simply because they can connect/relate! ---- i attract the most
intense type of crowds:
/hetero men hug&kiss me
/hetero women call me a god AND a goddess
in one night!! /gays think i'm a new prototype of DIVA... /lesbians want
to date me /transvestites & transexuals think i'm a completely different
species!!
-these types of crowds are small, but EXTREME... and they sometimes
scare the fuck out of me when they approach me... but i seem
to be a magnet and these types are drawn to me. it's very strange! -
they obviously feel a connection.
...then you have people who are scared of me... and others who don't
like me, and rather have a LIGHTER meal instead.
it's all good at the end of the day).
...CHELONIS R. JONES IS LIKE A DARK, YET SPECIAL
LITTLE SECRET: I'M CULT... AND THIS IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.
I'M REAL! I'M WORTH IT, BABY!!
SURUBA 014 ------------------------------------------------+ SPEKTRE FT. CHELONIS R. JONES "The Ride, The Remixes"
Tracks:
Spektre ft. Chelonis R. Jones - The Ride (Kreon remix) Spektre ft. Chelonis R. Jones - The Ride (Gorge remix) Spektre ft. Chelonis R. Jones - The Ride (Minz remix) Spektre ft. Chelonis R. Jones - The Ride (Los Suruba remix)
Supported by Steve Lawler, Mihalis Safras, Sebo K, Monoroom, Benna, Ludovic vendi, Jaumetic and many more...
Thx so much for the add I love your music even more ! I wish you like my sound, tell me what you think, your opinion matters for us ! We are a French electro label, listen to our last band “haxis” Visit us and our electro music: http://www.myspace.com/neosonnix
Mr Chelonis R. Jones You really are a genious everything you do is greatness. will you ever be coming down to australia ? Would be unbeliveable to see you live. Keep doing what you do best Sammy.
Download now: Crystal Fake - Promo DJ Mix (March 2009)
No. - Artist - Track - Label
01 - Dusty Kid - Luna - BPitch Control 02 - Moonbeam Feat. Blackfeel Wite - Your Wind is in My Hands (Ramon Tapia Vocal Mix) - Moonbeam Digital 03 - Milton Jackson & Sei A - Glasgow Kiss (Original Mix) - Urbantorque 04 - Kellerkind - Natural Juice - Flash Recordings 05 - Crystal Fake - Sea Buzz (The Quasar Remix) - Foundation Records 06 - Prompt - Evolve - 7Noise 07 - Chelonis R. Jones vs. Marc Romboy - The Beat (Technasia Remix 1) - Systematic Recordings 08 - Alex Kenji - A Lot Of - Hotfingers 09 - Butch - Dark Fader - AFU Limited 10 - Alex Sosa - Minotauro - Circuit Records 11 - Gennaro Mastrantonio - Night in the Jungle (Matador Remix) - Perc Trax 12 - Guy Gerber - Timing - Cocoon Recordings 13 - Paul Ritch - Walk The Line - Quartz Rec 14 - Mr. G - Makes No Sense (Radio Slave's Shaking The Tree Remix) - Rekids 15 - Igor S feat. Lady Brian - Keep It Going (Original Extended Mix) - Polar Noise 16 - Roderick Fox - Wonderfull - 3rd Wave Music 17 - Shoddy Lynn & Skyler Taugher - Avant Punk (Shekimon Remix) - Impakt Recordings 18 - Profile25 - Mini - Fairlads Digital
