Jordan McDonald

Jordan McDonald says his favourite thing to do is sneeze, because for that single second where your body acts on its own accord, he feels the same explosive excitement as when he is creating his music. “Writing has always just come naturally to me” he says with a look of intent, “I guess its just always been something I had to do at the end of the day.” The convincing look in his eyes followed by the nervous laughter at the end of the statement creates an awkward tension that could only be resolved by hitting the play button on the CD player. Jordan smiles as the first song starts playing, a song with an expression of change called “Forever Incomplete.” The song is beautifully written and obviously took a great amount of work to create. That being said, I wouldn’t be the first one to acknowledge Jordan’s hard work as an article was written about Jordan where he was described as extremely independent. While most artists have a huge team of people working at their success, Jordan does all these jobs himself. The article compares his determination in many roles to a hat rack. This hat rack would have to hold a lot of hats because Jordan does all his own writing, recording, producing, promoting, and performing. In fact, this would leave me to believe that he was the one actually writing this bio but that can’t be true Jordan is still hard at work in the next room on his new CD, the follow-up to 2005’s “I Hate What You’ve Done With The Place.” “This new CD, it just feels like a record, not like a CD. I know for a fact that these songs were meant to played together.” His excitement is contagious. In fact I feel a cold coming on, but that’s okay, Jordan McDonald can make me sneeze any day.

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