Ernesto is 24 year old soulful singer and music maker Jonatan Bäckelie from Gothenburg, now based in Birmingham.

Ernesto has toured Europe and Japan with Compost Records nu jazz/broken beat pioneers Beanfield, been seen collaborating with Swell Session (Freerange Records) and in action with Plej (pronounced 'play') from whose debut album Electronic Music from the Swedish Left Coast (exceptional) has been has been an underground word-of-mouth smash in European electronica circles. Plej's music featuring Ernesto's vocals has also been heard on the prime time TV series Six Feet Under and on Jaguar car commercials in the US.

Not content with this hectic schedule, Ernesto has also been busily working away in his own studio, and has now completed a most extraordinary and unexpected album. Presented to Exceptional Records as a finished album, Jonatan had previously hinted at its contents only by saying it was something he had been working on in between his many other projects. The album...