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  1. Jim Kroft

    Interview auf deutsch über die Geschichte und Entstehung von dem Album "The Hermit and the Hedonist": http://t.co/S6wxAa7l

  2. Jim Kroft

    Lyrics to - Memoirs, Monk & Jailer added! http://t.co/SBiADjP1

  3. Jim Kroft

    Brain is divided up across the city doing many chores, across a million chord changes & keepin up w/ the spirit of independence

  4. Jim Kroft

    Rehearsals rolling well. Band in the groove. Sun shining. Moon aching. Some tests to overcome. Moving forward. A day in the life....

  5. Jim Kroft

    I think to overcome a regret is one of the great achievements

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  • Bernd Meyer

    Hi Jim, I wish you a happy new year and a lot of success in 2011.

    Bernd

    1 year ago
  • BAI Eytinge

    We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year !!!

    1 year ago
  • Rosie Heise-Blank

    Merry christmas and a wonderful christmastime in uk!
    Thanks for your music and for everything....! x

    1 year ago
  • Jim Kroft

    Hey ya all - here is the Facebook Page, come say hi:

    http://www.facebook.com/Jimkroft

    1 year ago
  • Tim Joppien

    Imagine yourselve a rainy, a bit grey Berlin evening. Imagine yourselve you were near Rathaus Neukölln inside a tiny bar called BROSCHEK. It's around 9 o'clock in the evening. Friday 5th of November.
    There are cool people inside, drinking some beer or wine (you can see the empty bottles on the table) laughing about... whatever they want to laugh about. It creates en intimate atmosphere, watching all these, sometimes familiar, briht faces. You may call it a home for an evening.
    But then there was a canary. A canary in a coal mine. Ahhh... What?

    It's Jim Kroft starting his first song (Canary in the coal mine) of the evening.
    Accompanied by Ben Barrit on Guitar, Master Scholli on the violin and (apologizes for not knowing your names guys) acustic bass and cajon and "Vera on the seat", Jim created great vibes, even if the Audience tried to "sabotize the gig" clapping there hands to the beat ;-)
    Everyone who was familiar with Jim's songs sang along, everyone else was cheering with good grace and all over the time you could hear someone slightly laughing out of joy.
    Most of the "ragdolls" did not "fall apart" this evening, and only Jamie was able to "guess what the god's say".
    Charisma was in the air this night. Thanks
    x
    tim

    1 year ago
  • Stacey Chandler

    great music :)

    1 year ago
  • Martha Pate Bell

    Hello Jim, I was stopping by to listen to your music and to say hello, I hope you have a wonderful week!

    1 year ago
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"To be modern is to experience personal and social life as a maelstrom, to find one's world in perpetual disintegration and renewal: to be part of a universe in which all that is solid melts into air" Marshall Berman

Jim Kroft is in no mood for half measures and is coming out of the lunatic fringe wild and frenzied and swinging blindly. An independent artist living in Berlin, Kroft chronicles life in the 21st century and the adventures of his own spirit. Widely unknown in Europe, he considers himself in exile from the UK.

His debut album was released in July 2010 and made considerable impact on the blogosphere before returning swiftly to obscurity.

“Kroft is a genuine talent” There Goes The Fear

New song Memoirs from the Afterlife is like Esther´s staircase set to music. The same melody migrating through different keys, a paradox leading endlessly back on itself. In this way it attempts to portray the shifting realities facing modern man. The song posits that in the myriad of uncertainties, the polarization of ideas and the morphing of cultures, understanding can only come through acquiescence before the great tide of things.

Before leaving the UK, Kroft conducted a series of interviews with men he considers luminaries (James Lovelock (Gaia Theory) & Colin Wilson (The Outsider)). Filled with their revelations and insights, he decided that a life of austerity and discipline would be the only way to ever make a valuable contribution to the great debate.

In Berlin he underwent an alternate education for the modern songwriter. One that seeks knowledge from the tradi tions while keeping atop the crest of the new.

Manically back to front and filled with half digested wisdom, Memoirs From The Afterlife (produced by Laura Mar ling drummer Matt Ingram) will be released on the 21st Feb ruary 2011 on Jackalope Records.

One of the last songs to be mixed at Ray Davies´s famed Konk Studios (by Richard Wilkinson (Adele/Kaiser Chiefs)), the hand printed silk screen artwork comes courtesy of Berlin´s Sunst Brothers.

Memoirs from the Afterlife is Kroft´s latest thunderbolt from the underground.

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  • Location Berlin, DE

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    Last Login: 8/22/2011

    Member Since 4/9/2009

    Type of Label Indie

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    MEMOIRS FROM THE AFTERLIFE MEMOIRS FROM THE AFTERLIFE "To be modern is to experience personal and social life as a maelstrom, to find one's world in perpetual disintegration and renewal: to be part of a universe in which all that is solid melts into air" Marshall Berman Jim Kroft is in no mood for half measures and is coming out of the lunatic fringe wild and frenzied and swinging blindly. An independent artist living in Berlin, Kroft chronicles life in the 21st century and the adventures of his own spirit. Widely unknown in Europe, he considers himself in exile from the UK. His debut album was released in July 2010 and made considerable impact on the blogosphere before returning swiftly to obscurity. “Kroft is a genuine talent” There Goes The Fear New song Memoirs from the Afterlife is like Esther�s staircase set to music. The same melody migrating through different keys, a paradox leading endlessly back on itself. In this way it attempts to portray the shifting realities facing modern man. The song posits that in the myriad of uncertainties, the polarization of ideas and the morphing of cultures, understanding can only come through acquiescence before the great tide of things. Before leaving the UK, Kroft conducted a series of interviews with men he considers luminaries (James Lovelock (Gaia Theory) & Colin Wilson (The Outsider)). Filled with their revelations and insights, he decided that a life of austerity and discipline would be the only way to ever make a valuable contribution to the great debate. In Berlin he underwent an alternate education for the modern songwriter. One that seeks knowledge from the traditions while keeping atop the crest of the new. Manically back to front and filled with half digested wisdom, Memoirs From The Afterlife (produced by Laura Marling drummer Matt Ingram) will be released on the 21st February 2011 on Jackalope Records. One of the last songs to be mixed at Ray Davies�s famed Konk Studios (by Richard Wilkinson (Adele/Kaiser Chiefs)), the hand printed silk screen artwork comes courtesy of Berlin�s Sunst Brothers. Memoirs from the Afterlife is Kroft�s latest hunderbolt from the underground.

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