Jay-Jay Johanson

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Jay-Jay Johanson

Jay-Jay Johanson (* 11. October 1969 in Trollhättan as Jäje Johansson ) is a Swedish musician , singer and composer . His music, which is mainly characterized by Johanson's melancholy lyrics, was initially based mainly on the genre trip-hop .

Life

After the first demo recordings had been made in November 1994, Jay-Jay Johanson released his debut Whiskey in August 1996 , the sound of which was characterized by jazzy singing and bizarre film noir arrangements. In 1998 the successor Tattoo appeared .

Johanson's third album Poison was released in April 2000 and entered the French charts at number four. It also included contributions from Cocteau Twins founder and guitarist Robin Guthrie . In the same year Johanson composed the soundtrack for the film La confusion des genre by the French director Ilan Cohen . The following year Jay-Jay Johanson appeared with the sound-image installation Cosmodrome , which was presented to the public for the first time in Dijon . This work of art traveled around the world and was last shown at the Musée d'art modern in Paris .

With the album Antenna , which was created in collaboration with the German IDM artists Funkstören , Johanson took a new musical direction in 2002 and turned to electroclash . In 2004, under the title Prologue, a compilation of Johanson's previous work was published, which was aimed at the American market. In 2005 the album Rush followed , which was partly produced by the French producer Jean-Pierre Ensuque .

In the spring of 2006 Jay-Jay Johanson gathered the musicians with whom he had worked on the first three releases. With the resulting album The Long Term Physical Effects Are Not Yet Known , Johanson returned in 2007 to his characteristic sound. The subsequent tour started in China and led through 30 cities worldwide.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Antenna
  SE 37 09/12/2002 (2 weeks)
Rush
  SE 52 09/22/2005 (1 week)
The Long Term Physical Effects Are Not Yet Known
  SE 36 01/25/2007 (1 week)
Singles
On the radio
  SE 57 05/30/2002 (1 week)

Studio albums

title Details Chart peaks
SWE
 FRA
whiskey
  • Released: May 5, 1996
  • Label: RCA
- -
Tattoo
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: RCA
 - 16
Poison
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: RCA
 - 20th
Antenna
  • Released: September 2, 2002
  • Label: RCA
 37 53
Rush
  • Released: September 19, 2005
  • Label: Virgin , EMI Sweden
 52 116
The Long Term Physical Effects Are Not Yet Known
  • Released: January 21, 2007
  • Label: Virgin, EMI Sweden
 36 84
Self-portrait
  • Released: October 13, 2008
  • Label: Art, Virgin, EMI Sweden
 - 107
Spellbound - 117
Cockroach
  • Released: September 23, 2013
  • Label: Universal
 - 170
opium
  • Released: June 16, 2015
  • Label: Kwaidan Records, Le Plan
 - -
Bury the Hatchet
  • Released: September 15, 2017
  • Label: 29 Music
 - 150
Kings Cross
  • Released: April 19, 2019
  • Label: 29 Music
 - 176

Compilations

  • 2004: Prologue: Best of the Early Years 1996-2002
  • 2013: Best Of 1996 - 2013

swell

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: SE
  2. ↑ Discography Jay-Jay Johanson . Retrieved January 31, 2012.
  3. ^ Discography Jay-Jay Johanson ( French ) Retrieved January 31, 2012.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Johanson, Jay-Jay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johansson, Jäje (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish musician, singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Trollhättan , Sweden