Alain Johannes

Alain Johannes Moschulski (born May 2, 1962 in Santiago de Chile ) is an American rock musician and music producer .

Career

As a teenager, Johannes founded the band Anthym with Hillel Slovak , Jack Irons and Todd Strassman , which later became part of What Is This? was renamed. The band broke up in the mid-80s after Slovak and Irons joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers . At the end of the 1980s Johannes met his future partner and bandmate Natasha Shneider and together with her they published their first joint work in 1987 called Walk the Moon . In 1990 Johannes, Shneider and Irons founded the band Eleven , which was to become one of Johannes more extensive and long-term projects and was only dissolved in 2008 after Shneider's death. In the middle of the 90s Johannes began to work on projects of musicians he was friends with, including Chris Cornell and UNKLE . In 2000 Johannes took part in the second album of the band Queens of the Stone Age and thus had many contacts with Josh Homme and his bandmates and was then involved in almost all of Homme's side projects. Johannes took part in Desert Sessions 7 & 8, as well as 9 & 10, had guest appearances on Queens of the Stone Age's albums Songs for the Deaf and Lullabies to Paralyze and played guitar and bass on the following tour from 2005 to 2006 . Johannes also worked as a musician and producer in Homme's side projects Eagles of Death Metal and Them Crooked Vultures before going on tour with the latter from 2009 to 2010. Johannes can also be heard on various Mark Lanegan's albums. His last works include the band Spinnerette , as well as his solo album Spark , released in 2010 , which he dedicated to his partner Natasha Shneider, who died in 2008, and recorded it entirely by himself.

Bands

Discography (selection)

Over the course of his career, Johannes has worked with a wide variety of artists and bands of various genres. In addition to various instruments, he also worked as a sound engineer, mixer and producer.

Band or musician	album	year	Credits
Addie Brik	Wattsland (EP)	1984	Singing , guitar , production
What is this?	Squeezed (EP)	1984	Vocals, guitar
What is this?	What is this?	1985	Vocals, guitar
What is this?	3 Out Of 5 Live (EP)	1985	Vocals, guitar
Thelonious monsters	Baby, you're bummin 'my life out in a supreme fashion	1986	Flute , saxophone
Walk the moon	Walk the moon	1987	Vocals, guitar, saxophone, percussion , e-bow , programming
Eleven	Awake In A Dream	1991	guitar
Sun 60	Only	1993	guitar
Melissa Ferrick	Massive blur	1993	guitar
Eleven	Eleven	1993	Vocals, guitar
Eleven	Thunk	1995	Vocals, guitar, percussion, horn , sitar
Jason Falkner	Presents Author Unknown	1996	guitar
Gouds Thumb	Gouds Thumb	1996	guitar
Dalbello	Whore	1996	guitar
Chris Cornell	Euphoria Morning	1999	Background vocals, guitar, bass , theremin , mandolin , clarinet , tabla , production, mixing
Queens of the Stone Age	Rated R	2000	Mixing
Eleven	Avant-garde dog	2000	Vocals, guitar, producer, sound engineer
No doubt	Return of Saturn	2000	admission
Desert sessions	The Desert Sessions, Volumes 7 & 8	2001	Vocals, guitar, fiddle , harmonium , saxophone, clavinet , udu , mixing
live	V	2001	Sitar, production
No doubt	Rock steady	2002	Sound engineer
Queens of the Stone Age	Songs for the Deaf	2002	Guitar, lap steel , organ, piano , theremin
UNKLE	Never, never, land	2003	Remixing
Matt Costa	Matt Costa (EP)	2003	Mastering
Desert sessions	The Desert Sessions, Volumes 9 & 10	2003	Vocals, guitar, bass, flute, mandolin, e-bow, keyboard
Mondo generator	A Drug Problem That Never Existed	2003	Sound engineer, mixing, mastering
Eleven	Howling Book	2003	Vocals, guitar
Mark Lanegan Band	Here Comes That Weird Chill (EP)	2003	Guitar, bass, drums , keyboards, mixing, production
Mark Lanegan Band	Bubblegum	2004	Background vocals, guitar, bass, drums, organ, keyboard, mixdown, production
Sugarcult	Palm Trees and Power Lines	2004	guitar
Jack Irons	Attention dimension	2004	Vocals, guitar, banjo , flute, saxophone, sarod , santur , marxophone, sound engineer, mixing
Janubia	Mother tongue	2004	Mixing, mastering
Masters of Reality	Give Us Barabbas	2004	Editing
Eagles of Death Metal	Peace Love Death Metal	2004	Background vocals, piano, sound engineer, mixing, mastering
Queens of the Stone Age	Lullabies to Paralyze	2005	Guitar, bass, marxophone, flute
Queens of the Stone Age	Over the Years and Through the Woods (Live)	2005	Background vocals, bass, guitar
Millionaire	Paradisiac	2005	Mixing, recording
Eagles of Death Metal	Death by Sexy	2006	Mixing
Wires on Fire	Wires on Fire	2006	Saxophone, mixing, sound engineer, mastering
Queens of the Stone Age	Era Vulgaris	2007	Bass, guitar, fiddle, marxophone, mixdown
Silver chair	Young Modern	2007	Lapsteel
Hilary Duff	Dignity	2007	Mixing
Puscifer	V is for vagina	2007	guitar
Spinnerette	Ghetto Love (EP)	2008	bass
Eagles of Death Metal	Heart On	2008	Horn, sound engineer
The Gutter Twins	Saturnalia	2008	admission
Kelly Clarkson	All I Ever Wanted	2009	guitar
Nosfell	Nosfell	2009	Guitar, bass, cigfiddle, marxophone, production, mixing
Spinnerette	Spinnerette	2009	Guitar, bass, cigfiddle, production, mixing, sound engineer
Arctic Monkeys	humbug	2009	Sound engineer
Them Crooked Vultures	Them Crooked Vultures	2009	Background vocals, recording
Alain Johannes	Spark	2010	Vocals, guitar, bass, cigfiddle, recording, production, mixing
Sweethead	Sweethead	2010	Mastering
The Black Box Revelation	My perception	2011	production
Mark Lanegan Band	Blues funeral	2012	Vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, keyboard, recording, production, mixing
Mark Lanegan	Imitations	2013	Vocals, fiddle, mellotron, e-bow, recording, mixing
Mark Lanegan	Has God Seen My Shadow? - An Anthology 1989-2011	2014	Guitar, keyboard, recording, mixing
Mark Lanegan Band	No Bells on Sunday	2014	Guitar, synthesizer, mellotron, percussion, drum machine

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Visions 216 p. 105

personal data
SURNAME	Johannes, Alain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Johannes Moschulski, Alain (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American rock musician and record producer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chile

[1] Visions 216 p. 105


Studio albums	Queens of the Stone Age (1998) • Rated R (2000) • Songs for the Deaf (2002) • Lullabies to Paralyze (2005) • Era Vulgaris (2007) • … Like Clockwork (2013) • Villains (2017)
Extended plays	Stone Age Complication (2004)
Live albums	Over the Years and Through the Woods (2005) •… Like Cologne ( iTunes , 2013)
Singles	If Only Everything (Promo, 1996) • If Only (Promo, 1998) • I Was a Teenage Hand Model (Promo, 1998) • The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret (2000) • Feel Good Hit of the Summer (2000) • Monsters in the Parasol (Promo, 2000) • Never Say Never (Romeo-Void-Cover, Promo, 2000) • No One Knows (2002) • Go with the Flow (2003) • First it Giveth (2003) • Little Sister ( 2005) • In My Head (2005) • Everybody Knows that You Are Insane (Promo, 2005) • The Fun Machine Took a Shit and Died (Promo, 2005 and 2007) • Burn the Witch (2006) • Sick, Sick, Sick (2007) • 3's & 7's (2007) • Make it Wit Chu (2007) • How to Handle a Rope (A Lesson in the Lariat) (2011) • My God is the Sun (2013) • I Sat by the Ocean ( 2013) • The Vampyre of Time and Memory (Promo, 2013) • Smooth Sailing (Promo, 2014) • The Way You Used to Do (2017)
Splits	Kyuss / Queens of the Stone Age ( Split with Kyuss , 1997) • The Split CD (Split with Beaver, 1998)