John Goldrust, a pre-eminent Songwriter and Producer from Oxford, has unleashed '
How Like The Goddess’ the third single to be released from his cutting edge album ‘Travellers In Timing’, being rolled out as a series of groundbreaking song productions from 2025 to 2026.
The song is based on a previous relationship of John's that ended quite badly and without proper closure, sufficient to change the course of his life afterwards. However, the concept of the song and reference to 'The Goddess' alludes to the question of whether the relationship between the genders is changing in modern times, driven in particular by the media and perhaps a hidden agenda behind it. Although 'female empowerment' is an attractive idea, it is being pursued with an almost religious fervour in the media, but where does this leave the men, especially young men, who rarely get a mention these days, becoming a forgotten underclass. The rise of influencers such as Andrew Tate fills this vacuum with a reactionary ultra-macho message and an increasingly secular culture means the patriarchal old religion of Christianity is fading in it's influence over western society, resulting in the phenomenon that men and woman may now, in a sense, be following different gods from each other and for women perhaps it is now 'The Goddess' that guides them - in other words, the archetype of female empowerment. The narrative of the song is based on Homer's 'Odyssey'.
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 studying maths at 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. Initial ideas began to emerge of a new theory of music and the first stages of development were laid down - it would be several years before the system was completed. At around 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’. Since then John Has been releasing Singles from the album, the latest being ‘How Like The Goddess’
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