Music
Don't Look Back
The second single from my AOR-project “Jono”. This song is about daring to let go of things that keep you stuck in the past. Things that you constantly return to, but that should be left in the past, while you should look forward instead. In my case, the song is about all the time I spend on certain projects, which I should really see as a closed chapter. But the text is double-bottomed and can also be about my Christian faith.
The music just popped into my head one day in the studio and I quickly recorded a demo, which CJ Grimmark produced and Anders Köllerfors gilded with drumming.
/Jonatan Samuelsson
Don’t Look Back
Single
(2024)
Press reviews
“It’s amazing how they put their hands to an AOR-project and it be on par with the best AOR around”
Iridium Rock & Metal Reviews, UK
“Musikvärldens svar på Ture Sventon är Jonatan Samuelsson som vanligtvis trakterar basen i banden Narnia och Starmen, firar sitt femtionde år i livet med sitt eget AOR-projekt Jono. Så när han inte har en temla i munnen, så har han en mikrofon vid munnen och singeln har förärats med låtarna Silver Screen och Don’t Look Back. Ett intressant fall på det hela taget! Förhoppningsvis släpps det ett helt album men det är för tidigt att yttra sig om den saken ännu.”
Andreas Östlund, Rocknytt, Sweden
“I say what’s cool about this as well: It’s a project, it’s like like a side thing. And it’s like having a go AOR, if you like. And it’s perfect in it. Just competing with the best AOR out there! And that’s pretty amazing in it. If you could, you know, go for something outside your own house and just do it perfectly like that. That was brilliant!”
Iridium Rock & Metal Reviews, UK
Silver Screen
My first song for this AOR-project. It’s a song about daring to believe that you can actually succeed. An uplifting song that I originally wrote with my daughter, Agnes, in mind. She was going to choose a high school course and had big dreams, which I wanted to encourage her to follow.
I strove to mix modern AOR with the rock that I myself grew up with in the 1980s, like Europe and other phenomenal bands. CJ Grimmark, together with Anders Köllerfors, has done a fantastic musical job.
/Jonatan Samuelsson
Silver Screen
Single
(2024)
Press reviews
“Competing with the best AOR out there!”
Iridium Rock & Metal Reviews, UK
“Musikvärldens svar på Ture Sventon är Jonatan Samuelsson som vanligtvis trakterar basen i banden Narnia och Starmen, firar sitt femtionde år i livet med sitt eget AOR-projekt Jono. Så när han inte har en temla i munnen, så har han en mikrofon vid munnen och singeln har förärats med låtarna Silver Screen och Don’t Look Back. Ett intressant fall på det hela taget! Förhoppningsvis släpps det ett helt album men det är för tidigt att yttra sig om den saken ännu.”
Andreas Östlund, Rocknytt, Sweden
“I say what’s cool about this as well: It’s a project, it’s like like a side thing. And it’s like having a go AOR, if you like. And it’s perfect in it. Just competing with the best AOR out there! And that’s pretty amazing in it. If you could, you know, go for something outside your own house and just do it perfectly like that. That was brilliant!”
Iridium Rock & Metal Reviews, UK