Jack Younger

For JACK (10), having a family is the most important thing in the world. Then, one day, his mother disappears. Together with his younger brother MANUEL (6), he embarks on a journey to find her… the journey of a boy who has learnt from an early age to take responsibility. In the end, his brave and startling decision holds up a mirror to all of us.

In 1998, Universal released "Wives and Lovers/Dear Heart & Other Great Songs of Love", which contained two complete albums - "Wives and Lovers" (1963, originally released on Kapp) and "Dear Heart & Other Great Songs of Love" (1965, originally released on Kapp) by Jack Jones on one compact disc.

Holly Rankin’s life was irreversibly changed at age 14, after the sudden, accidental death of her younger sister. The New South Wales singer/songwriter's debut album as Jack River, Sugar Mountain (an homage to Neil Young’s track lamenting the end of youthful innocence), arrives 12 years later, depicting the hazy grief that engulfed the years that followed. She remembers her sister on the largely acoustic “Her Smile” (“Her smile pierces through the universe”) and reveals the lingering darkness she’s lived with since. “There’s all these people in the room/I just wanna be alone,” she sings on the luminescent “Ballroom”, and on “So High”, admits, “I don’t know how to tell you this/I am so sad.”

As the title indicates, this album brings together various members of the musical Thompson family: Teddy Thompson, his acclaimed folk rocker parents Richard and Linda, brother Jack, younger sister Kami, her husband James and nephew Zak Hobbs, collectively dubbed Thompson. This collaborative album of original songs captures the warmth, intelligence and humour of this supremely talented family as they record together for the very first time. The family members all wrote and recorded their songs where they live and sent them in; once done, the family met up for four days of studio time in London and New York City where the tracks were recorded with Teddy at the helm. The recordings feature abundant musical cross-pollination from all the performers as well as shared backing vocals.