Jont’s “All Become One” is a Hopeful, Cathartic Anthem for Our Times – A Song of Unity, Awareness, and Love Amid the Chaos
Nova Scotia via London singer-songwriter Jont shares his stirring new single “All Become One” – an intimate indie anthem about collective healing, unity, and the power of love over fear.
Jont recalls:
“I remember doing some yoga on my own at home listening to East Forest, enjoying that feeling his music brings on. I just started singing. I turned off the music and picked up my guitar… The first lines, ‘I just wanna lie down with you’ came out. Like it is now, it was a messed up time. It was impossible to know what was true and what was lies. And again like now, there was pressure on people not to say certain things. Just naming what was going on in the world felt challenging. It felt like many people weren’t wanting to do that. When the lines ‘We’re going down, we’re going down’ came, I didn’t know what the song was going to be about… But I thought, ‘Ah well, here we go…'”
“This song is being sung by many of us in different ways, because it is the song of our time,” explains Jont. “This is the eternal news, that you are me and I am you. This song is an anthem to the breaking down of division, and coming out of fear of the other.”
The recording has a raw and spontaneous feel. It was the very first song that Jont and his band, The Fish, recorded in the studio.
“The climax at the end where I sing the high note of ‘all become one’ twice – that was just an ad lib that came out because the song was wanting to come through,” Jont states. “So there’s a magic to the recording, a spontaneity and a life.”
Musically, the track is a melodic indie rock tune, but lyrically, it digs deep – like a cosmic folk song wrapped in a singable chorus.
The official video, directed by frequent collaborators Annaka Gale and Dario Lozano Thornton, features a striking mirror motif – people of all identities and backgrounds looking at their reflection and seeing someone else.
“The video reinforces the meaning with a stunning, simple visual metaphor,” Jont says. “Celebrating our diversity, the video shoot contains the glorious spectrum of humanity – people with disability and the able bodied, white and BIPOC, LGBTQS2+ and cisgender women, men, kids…”
With its message of resilience, presence, and spiritual awakening, “All Become One” offers a timely reminder of what connects us.