Jo Meares will be releasing 'BACK TO THE WORLD' on June 15th, 2018.

Recorded over 2 years in Sydney and Melbourne it involves an extraordinary range of musicians including...

Melbourne - Mark McCartney(guitars), Trent McKenzie(bass), Dave Milne(drums), Matty Vehl(piano)

Sydney - Murray Cook(guitar), Marc Denis(guitar) Justin Tauber(bass), John Butler(drums), Kari Pihl(piano/bv's)

Backing vocals by Jess Cassar

Violins by Michael Bridges
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'KING OF THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN' Jo Meares' last album was released in June 2014

Produced by Charles Jenkins it features the guitar work of virtuoso Jeff Lang and the sublime harmonica work of Reuben Alexander
and Kari Pihl's beautiful piano work.

The haunting backing vocals were recorded by an all girl choir in an old church in Helsinki, Finland.

From Simon Sweetman at Off The Tracks....

'...the whole album hit me in a way that some albums do; something by Richmond Fontaine, say. Or Springsteen's 'Ghost of Tom Joad'. A complete thing, a completed album that plays out like a movie or a book or a stage-play. It’s there. It unfolds for you. You’re listening to it but you can see it in front of you – you can imagine, the mind wanders due to the beauty and intensity and integrity of the music and the lyrics. Big bold stories. Real'.

From Chris Famiton's 4 star review at The Music....

Mood and atmosphere are key factors in the creation of immersive and transportive music and Jo Meares' new album is richly imbued with both. Eerie, forlorn harmonica; delicate and heart-wrenching piano; slow, shuffling drums; and exquisite guitar courtesy of Jeff Lang are the backdrop to Meares' tales of love, pain and emotional turbulence, rendered in the talk/sung style of Leonard Cohen yet invested with the gothic country ambience of Howe Gelb (Giant Sand) and Wovenhand. King Of The Crystal Mountain is a richly detailed and beautiful set of recordings from start to finish.