Jupiter's Wife, by Joseph Chester

Jupiter's Wife

by Joseph Chester

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1.	Jupiter's Wife 03:16	buy track
2.	Staying Together For The Children 05:50	buy track
3.	My Shipwrecked Mind 04:34	buy track
4.	The Heart of Saint Laurence O'Toole 06:31	buy track
5.	Somewhere Between Oblivion and Bliss 05:06	buy track
6.	Nothing At The End 06:14	buy track
7.	Is Cuimhin Liom (I Remember) 03:55	buy track
8.	A Red Balloon 04:53	buy track
9.	Synge's Chair 04:25	buy track
10.	A Siren Song to a Shipwreck 06:44	buy track
11.	Sweet Bird 03:30	buy track
12.	Hilton and Michael 06:55	buy track
13.	Novena 06:59	buy track

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Irish Album Of The Year (2020) - The Irish Mirror

Jupiter’s Wife is one of the greatest Irish albums of the decade. Jason O’Toole, Irish Daily Mirror

The rich sound of Joe’s rare 40-year-old Lowden guitar becomes the centrepiece of the master songwriter-producer’s latest set of melodic, thoughtful compositions. Superior sonic cocooning. Eamonn Carr, The Evening Herald

Chester is back with Jupiter’s Wife, a characteristic mix of subtle lyricism and beautifully orechesrated music bristling with literary references. Apt for man who may belong in the same rarefied territory as Robert Forster of The Go-Betweens.

Alan Corr, RTE

Dans Jupiter’s Wife, il est évidemment question de folk à l’état pur. Habilement joué, sincèrement mis en forme. Un bel objet sonore.

Magic, Revue Pop Moderne

The mood is meditative, the music absorbing. This music stimulates the mind as much as it pleases the ear.

The Sunday Times

Jupiter's Wife is a beautiful album that aches with melancholy, heartbreak & reflectiveness but also with hope. Recorded in the famous Sun Studios, An early Choice Music Prize contender. PlayIrish

The sound throughout is warm and welcoming, even when the lyrics bleed pain… this album slowly and sensuously reveals its charms. The Heart of St Laurence O’Toole is a folk epic. From the haunting instrumentals to the soulful vocal and reverb-laden guitar, Jupiter’s Wife reels you in. An album to lose yourself in.

****½ - Sunday Business Post

Jupiter’s Wife is a double album and a substantial piece of work it is too. There are several songs, like “Staying Together For The Children,” that resonate powerfully.. It is typical of Chester’s approach to songwriting. Not for him the sort of cliched fare that pockmarks the work of so many of his peers. He has amassed more than a quarter century of high-quality music. He should be a household name.

The Irish Independent

Album of the week - RTE Lyric FM

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Joe Chester's albums have been written about in the books 101 Irish Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, by Tony Clayton-Lea and Buried Treasure by Dan Hegarty and featured recently in The Sunday Times list of the best Irish albums of all time.

Irish Album of the Year, 2020 - Irish Mirror (Jupiter's Wife)

Irish Album of the Year, 2017 - Irish Sun (The Easter Vigil) ... more

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I produced this record by Freddie in a cottage in Provence after a long tour we did together from Barcelona to Tromso. Freddie's a great songwriter! Joseph Chester
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I think this is the last record I made in my old studio in Blessington Street, Dublin before moving to France. We got some great sounds there. Joseph Chester
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