Jason Pierce

Jason Pierce 1998

Jason Pierce (also J Spaceman , born November 19, 1965 in Rugby , England ) is a British musician. He is a singer , songwriter , producer and plays guitar and keyboard .

Career

He became known with the space rock band Spacemen 3 , where he and Pete Kember (also known as Sonic Boom ) formed the creative dual leadership. With Spacemen 3 Pierce released four albums. After several line-up changes and an inevitable conflict with Kember, the band broke up in 1990. Pierce then founded the formation Spiritualized with the other musicians of the band , of which he is now the only constant member.

With the spiritualized album Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space in 1997 he was able to record his greatest success to date. Pierce was in a relationship with Richard Ashcroft's current wife for years , who was also a member of the band. He processed the separation from her with this album. Since 1999 he has been running his own label Spaceman , through which the band's subsequent albums are distributed.

In 2002 Pierce contributed the guitar track to the album Amassed of the British lounge music project Spring Heel Jack and accompanied them on their follow-up tour in 2003. At these concerts an official live album was finally recorded and released on the Spring Heel Jack label. The musicians of the project support him with the songwriting for the meanwhile sixth album of his band Spiritualized . These rehearsals resulted in various improvised recordings, which were released in early 2006 under his pseudonym J Spaceman as Jason Pierce's first solo album.

health

Pierce has always proclaimed the importance of mind-expanding substances for the creative processes of his musical work. Pierce had been addicted to heroin for years, which he made no bones about. In 2005 he collapsed due to drastic weight loss as a result of unnoticed life-threatening pneumonia and was admitted to intensive care for several days. He has reportedly given up drug use since recovering.

Discography

Spacemen 3

• Sound Of Confusion (1986)
• The Perfect Prescription (1987)
• Playing With Fire (1989)
• Recurring (1991)

Spiritualized

• Lazer Guided Melodies (1992)
• Pure Phase (1995)
• Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (1997)
• Let It Come Down (2001)
• Amazing Grace (2003)
• Songs In A&E (2008)
• Sweet Heart Sweet Light (2012)

Spring Heel Jack

• Amassed (2002)
• Live (2003) official live album
• Songs & Themes (2008) J Spaceman - electric guitar on tracks 9 and 12

J Spaceman

• J Spaceman Guitar Loops (2006)
• Silent Sound (2006)