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Artist
Jadiid
12+ albums
honest
about
Jadiid (jah-deed) is a band. They live in Chicago. “We started listening to Bill Withers, to Al Green, some Charles Wright, even some Slow Train Coming era Dylan. They kept getting these sounds that didn’t seem rushed or forced, yet energized with well worn color and rythym. These sounds were somehow down home and urban, direct and dry, yet incredibly lush” This was the start of the transformation for the band Jadiid (jah-deed). The band began in 2006 with Matthew Boll who was just interested in having a venue for songwriting. “I remember thinking if I could just write one song, you know like “Can’t Always Get What You Want”, something people would sing, sing together, sing loudly, especially when they needed something to get them through that next minute, hour, year… however long the darkness stayed. Then I started noticing those soul records. You remember those first times you started listening to music and you really had no idea how they were getting those sounds, forming those word, or why it felt like it was written for you. It was so unknown it honestly felt like magic. That’s what these soul records were doing for me all over again. Its like they were making magic.” Jadiid went through some typical changes: several band members, an indie rock phase, everything orchestrated, in its place, huge sounds… “You know I’m a white kid from the Midwest who moved to Chicago. Everything is about the “folk” artist, or the newest indie band, or whatever electronic noise you can jam
