Jim Kroft to release debut single "One Sees The Sun"

"One Sees the Sun" is the debut single from Jim Kroft, an up and coming singer/songwriter based in Berlin.

The single is taken from Kroft's forthcoming album 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea' which is about a young man's effort to grow up sane in a bonkers world.

'One Sees the Sun' was inspired by a meeting with Colin Wilson, author of the famed 1956 masterpiece The Outsider, who Kroft went to Devon to meet one summer.

The strange old sage insisted on the young songwriter staying the night in his library which housed over 40,000 books.

During the long evening the old raconteur recalled how Dostoyevsky had coped with being imprisoned in Siberia for 10 years, and how, in looking out his cell, he remembered Victor Hugo's words - one can still see the sun!

Some years later Jim found himself living in a situation not dissimilar to the protagonists in Wilson's book, and wrote the song in memory of the man.

Exiled in Berlin the song became the starting point for the album with its realization that only when you are at your bottom most point can you really know that you are on the right path.

With lyrics like "When you truly want to live that's when one sees the sun" the song is an expression of Jim's life - affirming optimism.

After making friends with fellow Berliner Gordon Raphael (The Strokes), Gordon offered Jim the use of his East London Urchin Studios (Fyfe Dangerfield) to work with Adam Ficek producer Matt Ingram, where the album was recorded.

The record was picked up by London label Sidewalk 7, and the single "One Sees the Sun" will be released on 4th April, 2010 in the UK and his debut album Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea will be released in May.

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