Jonah Rank
Syosset, NY      Comedy / Pop-Fusion / Half-Jewish
    • Songs
    • Nobody Needs To Like You
    • Und Alle Das Jazz
    • Getting an F On a Breath Alcohol...
    • Yedid Nefesh (Preliminary)
    • Alaskan Mice Eating Nachos (Part...
    • She's Always a Woman (Jig Bill...
    • I Don't Believe You (She Acts Li...
    • Prison Food (Latin-esque Ben Fol...
    • Dog (Blues Ben Folds Cover)
    • And So It Goes (Light Rock Bill...
    • Motorpsycho Nightmare (Hoedown ...
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Status Twitter_icon_for_status I was ReverbNation's #2 Comedy Artist for 6 days, and my music's at the NY Time's Columbia Ballet Collaborative article's vid (6:06-6:46).

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Members: Jonah Rank - vocals, guitar, piano, drums, bass, violin, viola, harmonica, banjo, trumpet, accordion, keyboards, etc.
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Label: Rank Records

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It is not often that a Jewish college student from New York is mistaken for a founding member of Swedish pop sensation ABBA. But in the summer of 2008, Jonah Rank's "Genetic Test (The Missing ABBA Song)" confused ABBA fans across YouTube and the rest of the Internet.

Born on May 26 1987 to a Rabbi and a Jewish educator, Jonah Rank spent the first twelve years of his life in Springfield, NJ. Rank showed an early appreciation of music, beginning piano lessons in first grade, and composing original music by fourth grade. In the summer of 1999, Rank moved out to Long Island, where he gradually expanded his musicality even more as he took up new instruments and began to write serious lyrics for his music. By eighth grade, he had recorded over an album's length of his own pop music, with each instrument performed by Rank himself. In his senior year of high school, Rank recorded his debut commercial album Loud and Dumb, comprising tracks ranging from Rank's most serious art to his musical satire. Less than two years later, Rank released his sophomore CD, Your Favorite Album, made up of entirely "experinstrumental" (experimental and instrumental) music. Jonah Rank, whose music can be heard on the website of The New York Times, is currently turning his musical attention to an album of Jewish prayer music, a solo album of comedy music, playing keyboards for hip-hop group Verses for Masses, composing for an upcoming short film, and much, much more.

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"Rockin' out" while "sleepin' lots" and "playin' piano with [his] feet," Jonah Rank is one of the most exciting rising artists in the music scene today. Though "only a part-time musician" and a current undergraduate student at Columbia University, Jonah rocks the piano harder than just about anyone else in the music industry.

Though he despises being compared to other artists, Jonah Rank's wild piano playing and his musical sensibility - combined with his own personal spiritual life - has often termed him "the Jewish Ben Folds" or "the Jewish Frank Zappa".

In March of 2008, Jonah Rank released Your Favorite Album, what he calls his first album of "experinstrumental music - meaning that the music is both experimental and instrumental, and I don't have to say both words." On Your Favorite Album, Jonah performs a different instrument-sound on each track (organ, bass, banjo, chromonica, piano, shofar, trumpet, drums, guitar, violin, and more). Putting the indie in independent artist, Rank recorded this album so that he could learn how to better record all of his instruments he has lying around. "I was very proud of my debut CD, but it was recorded all wrong. I hope this one's gone a little better."

Rank blames himself for the "unique" sound quality of his debut CD from 2006, Loud and Dumb, which Jonah recorded himself as mixer, producer, singer, and the entire back-up band. "Though I could certainly play all of the instruments decently," says Jonah, "I didn't necessarily know how to record an album; but I did it anyway."

Trying to mend the past, he has started re-recording some of the songs from Loud and Dumb that he felt were good songs which his earlier recordings "simply did not do justice." More importantly though, he is also amidst recording a pop/rock-comedy followup to Loud and Dumb, and Jonah has already released the first single from this upcoming album, "Genetic Test (The Missing Abba Song)". Though Rank says that "Genetic Test" was a song he wrote in 1973 and was rejected by Swedish pop sensation ABBA, few facts do support his claim, and it seems more likely that "Genetic Test" is a recent satirical work of his poking fun at Mamma Mia!.

On top of all the above, Rank is currently involved in more projects than he can ever think of at one time. Though he can be found banging away at a drum kit behind pianist/singer-songwriter Lance Rhodes, he can also be found playing keyboard for hip-hop group Verses for Masses (led by Ghanan singer/poet/author Ishmael Adjetey Osekre). Rank is currently collaborating with a number of other artists, composing soundtracks, sound-scores, and musical settings for all sorts of works of art (dance, film, plays [including musicals], poetry, and more). Perhaps his most curious project of late has been his composing of musical settings for various Jewish prayer texts, about which he recently wrote and whose "Yedid Nefesh" is currently available for a free listen (click above to listen to a preliminary demo). 

"I've got a lot on my plate right now, and I'm digesting it all very slowly," Rank says. "In a little while, we'll see if it all looks as good as the menu makes it sound; but I'm very optimistic."



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