Google Translate: “Jim Of Seattle ‘is the alter ego of a certain Jim Owen, one in his spare time besides family father being active composer and singer of songs. He lives in Seattle, Washington and wrote in the past a lot of music for theater and movies. But he has in recent years concentrated on composing simple songs he now presents itself to the outside world on a first studio album titled “We Are All Famous”.
His musical past is still clearly audible in the 19 compositions and music clips on this album he has collected. With bombastic and theatrical orchestrations around his lyrics as the songs “OK” and “Dear God,” he is clearly not aiming at the general public. To illustrate, you can look at the attached video to the song “Laboratory Rat” that sounds more like something from the British ska group ‘Madness’.
His daughter Madi Owen allowed two songs sing on this album with the traditional children’s song “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” (the recording of her childlike song dates from many years back) and by her self-written song “The Martians Are Going To Eat Us “. They indeed play along on the violin with a number of tracks on the album of her father.
Beside that, “One Beautiful Summer” a typical musical number where you hear the performances of performers only have themselves to invent. In some cynically titled “A Conversation” hear a completely instrumental and very beautiful, almost classical piece on piano. The piano plays the leading role in a number of other compositions, such as the three short pieces composed “Cloud Cuckoo Land” and “When She Landed” or the song “Welcome To Windows” which he described the world famous startup sounds of the “Microsoft Windows XP “System subtle in its composition has processed.
The title track “We Are All Famous” and closing song “ABCD Puppies” are actually the most commercial sounding songs on this for us somewhat exceptional and eccentric disc, which we dare to doubt that “Jim Of Seattle” a wider interested public will can find. Let it be awarded to him all the way.
(Valsam)
