John Goldrust, a pre-eminent Songwriter and Producer from Oxford, is unleashing ‘
The One To Call’ this week - the second Single to be released from his cutting edge album ‘Travellers In Timing’, planned to be rolled out as a series of groundbreaking Singles over the course of 2025.
Each Single will have an accompanying
Live Version and the B-Side ‘
Forever And A Day' will also be available.
‘The One To Call’ is a critique of the darker side of romantic love, as experienced in the modern era. It implies the question of whether modern dating, with it's emphasis on fast love and easy hook-ups, is routinely aborting the embryonic first stages of romantic love on an industrialised scale and seems to question whether such love, with it’s ever growing barriers of entry, is even possible in the modern age.
While traditional courtship rituals seemed to make the flowering of romantic love almost inevitable and ubiquitous, such time-tested formulas have been turned on their heads in modern times, to the point where real relationships, which cultivate a 'falling in love', seem almost a rarity.
“It is like we are living through a mass experiment, in which societal norms, that have evolved over hundreds of generations and brought us successfully to this stage, have now been overturned in just 2 or 3 generations, begging the question 'if society wasn't broken then, why are we fixing it now?'” – John Goldrust
BiographyGoldrust played in several bands at school and university, which shaped his Rock-based sound and encouraged him to start writing songs at 16.
During the second half of his time at university, Goldrust discovered Electronic Dance Music, as well as the clubbing and free party scene, in Manchester and Oxford. He began DJing, writing Dance Music and soon after, made his first attempts at Dance Music production.
Following university, initial efforts to form a rock band in Manchester with a friend, quickly morphed into joining that friend in the forming of a Trance and Hard House sound system based in Oxford. In this context, he continued to develop his skills as a DJ and music producer, while also writing rock-based songs and making plans to form his own band. At this time, John recorded his first solo album, ‘Album One Unplugged’, which was released locally to friends and family. Subsequently ‘The Karmic Submission Hold’ or ‘KSH’ was formed and a studio EP was recorded, but soon after the band disintegrated into several other band projects.
Goldrust then moved to Brighton and the South Coast to work as a Sales Team Leader while focusing on his solo music project, before returning to Oxford to form the band ‘Pulsar’, which played several gigs in Oxford, eventually disbanding.
It was at this point Goldrust began developing his skills as a Rock Music producer in earnest and set up a home recording studio, as well as collaborating with a Dance Music producer. The Electronic ‘Happy By Design E.P.’ was recorded, as well as several prototype productions of Goldrust’s rock-based songs.
Goldrust’s production skills had finally come of age when he collaborated with several Jazz-Funk and Reggae musicians from an Oxford-based Reggae band called Mackating, that Goldrust was closely connected with and which by then had disbanded. The result was Goldrust’s first official release ‘When Said Is Done’, recorded and produced in his garden recording studio. The track featured I-Lodica, a well known British Reggae Artist on Vocals and Melodica, who also played on the following release ‘Like A Phoenix From A Fire’, along with a founding member of KSH on Percussion, Dan Glazebrook.
After this, the ‘Happy By Design E.P.’ was released, before Goldrust took a break from promotion to complete his second album ‘Travellers In Timing’.
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