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Jono is the AOR-solo project of Jonatan “Jono” Samuelsson – bassist in the bands Narnia & Starmen. The project took shape ahead of Jonatan’s upcoming 50th birthday. Together with two of his bandmates in Narnia – CJ Grimmark (guitars, bass, keyboards) & Anders Köllerfors (drums), Jonatan creates 1980s-influenced, melodic hard rock in the same style as Europe and similar bands.
JONO:
Jonatan Samuelsson: All vocals
Featured musicians:
CJ Grimmark: Guitars, bass, keyboards
Anders Köllerfors: Drums
Lyrics & music: Jonatan Samuelsson
Produced, mixed & mastered by: CJ Grimmark
Graphic design by: Jonatan Samuelsson
JONO-logo by: Jonatan Knutes
Contact: jonatan@jonomedia.se
Silver Screen
My first song for this AOR-project. It’s a song about daring to believe that you can actually succeed. An uplifting song that I originally wrote with my daughter, Agnes, in mind. She was going to choose a high school course and had big dreams, which I wanted to encourage her to follow.
I strove to mix modern AOR with the rock that I myself grew up with in the 1980s, like Europe and other phenomenal bands. CJ Grimmark, together with Anders Köllerfors, has done a fantastic musical job.
/Jonatan Samuelsson
Don't Look Back
The second single from my AOR-project “Jono”. This song is about daring to let go of things that keep you stuck in the past. Things that you constantly return to, but that should be left in the past, while you should look forward instead. In my case, the song is about all the time I spend on certain projects, which I should really see as a closed chapter. But the text is double-bottomed and can also be about my Christian faith.
The music just popped into my head one day in the studio and I quickly recorded a demo, which CJ Grimmark produced and Anders Köllerfors gilded with drumming.
/Jonatan Samuelsson