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Makin Waves Song of the Week: “Close 2 U” by Ser Xerri


By Bob Makin

originally published: 08/20/2021


Jersey Shore-based Bar/None recording artist Little Hag appears in the video of the new solo single of Remember Jones guitarist Ser Xerri. The track was produced by Brick + Mortar drummer John Tacon. PHOTO BY LVL 13

After a pre-pandemic year that included touring the U.S. as guitarist for Remember Jones and having his song, “Sympathetic Response,” placed on Investigation Discovery’s nationally televised “Primal Instinct,” Ser Xerri (pronounced “Sir Sherry”) has released his new single, “Close 2 U.” 

Produced and drummed by John Tacon of the Asbury two-piece Brick + Mortar, the single is accompanied by a cinematic music video filmed on location in Asbury Park and Bradley Beach and featuring an acting turn by Shore-based Bar/None recording artist Little Hag, aka Avery Mandeville. The funny, erotic clip was filmed by the Asbury-based LVL 13 production company.

As the Makin Waves Song of the Week, “Close 2 U” also can be heard between 6 and 8 p.m. on Aug. 19 on “Radio Jersey” at ThePenguinRocks.com

The lustful, social-distancing-themed power ballad features a spacious groove, a simple hook, and dramatic guitar solos. Where lyrics of a typical song in the genre ask for love and sex, Ser instead yearns simply to be “within six feet” of his love interest, eroticizing otherwise mundane acts like taking “your gloves off one finger at a time.”




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The track also features performances by Remember Jones keyboardist Mark Masefield.

For more about Ser Xerri, visit www.SerXerri.com.

Bob Makin has produced Makin Waves since 1988. Follow Makin Waves on Facebook and contact Bob at makinwaves64@yahoo.com



New Jersey Stage is proud to be the home of Bob Makin's Makin Waves column since 2017. His Song of the Week column comes out every Friday. He also writes an Album of the Month and Interview of the Month as well.



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