Jordan Carp
Spaceman
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New Jersey born and bred Jordan Carp didn’t consider music as a profession until he was living in New Orleans, weeks away from joining the Army. Months before this, a career test indicated he would excel as an officer in the armed forces, but Jordan stumbled on a path leading him to realize that being a songwriter would best suit him.
Jordan grew up in a musical home with an oboist/English Horn player father who started him on the piano. The first guitar, purchased by his grandmother at a yard sale for $5, made it into the Carp home when he was eight. At the time, Jordan lacked the discipline necessary to progress with an instrument. Years later, when he was in high school, he began spending more time with the guitar, learning songs by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Cat Stevens and many others.
After high school Jordan drifted down to New Orleans. This turned into a four-year period in which he became immersed in the music and culture of the city. While Jordan tended bar and worked security for concerts at the legendary Tipitina’s music venue (once as an on-stage security guard for the band GWAR), he spent his days studying music and creative writing at Tulane University. The work Jordan was doing led his professors to direct him to Berklee College of Music, where Jordan was accepted but decided to spend a little time brushing up on his guitar skills before attending. He moved into his mom’s basement in Boulder, Colorado where he practiced and taught himself theory for sometimes sixteen hours a day for two years. For a few hours a week he would emerge to deliver flowers for a local florist. While in Colorado he studied with avant garde pianist Art Lande and with guitar legend Dale Bruning (with whom Bill Frizell studied before attending Berklee). After the two years of non-stop guitar practice, Jordan was ready to attend Berklee. He graduated cum laude in 2001.
By 2003 Jordan was performing almost every night of the week: college campuses, clubs, coffeehouses, churches, theaters, on the streets of Harvard Square and in subway stations, where he managed to sell a thousand CD’s. In 2005 filmmakers John Givens and Phil Lane licensed six songs and commissioned Jordan to compose music for their documentary “Working Title”, which has been well received by independent film festivals across the country. Since then Jordan has composed music for and licensed his songs to television and over a dozen independent and student films, including CBS’s “The Young and the Restless” and “The Dialogue Project” which will air on HBO, Sundance, Discovery, PBS and selected theaters.
Jordan’s current release “Spaceman” is his third and strongest record to date. It is a ten-song EP filled with beautiful yet unorthodox melodies, thick, dark harmonies, and Jordan’s signature warm vocals backed by thought-provoking lyrics. Produced by Josh Fix, many risks were taken in the making of this record, placing it in a category of its own, perhaps best described as “Beatles and Pink Floyd remembered by Peter Gabriel and George Martin”.