Jay Jay Johanson in Moscow for One Night Only
Клубные российские · 24.07.2003
According to the official version, Jay Jay Johanson was born in 1969 in the small Swedish town of Skara to ordinary Swedish parents. His childhood was spent under various music, from the widespread Swedish fascination with ABBA to Chet Baker and Scott Walker, whom his father listened to. By his own admission, at the age of five, future Jay Jay favored the band Kiss: "I found their costumes and makeup amazing and funny." In his early school years, Johansson was actively involved in several instruments, including piano, saxophone, and clarinet. A little later, he played punk in a youth band, and as he grew up, he returned to jazz and even studied at the conservatory. But learning theory was much more boring than freely improvising, and the young talent decided to turn music into a hobby, playing jazz in clubs.
An event that turned Johansson's life upside down was Portishead's album "Dummy." This record inspired him to use electronic sounds to record new music, and soon the concept was realized in an album titled "Whiskey." Calm electronic music combined with complex rhythms and unusual melancholic vocals. The vigorous approving reaction of critics confirmed Johansson's belief that he was on the right path. The next two releases, "Tattoo" and "Poison," develop the theme of unity between electronic and "live" instruments.
Jay Jay quickly became popular throughout Europe, as well as North and South America: each of his three discs was sold in circulation of more than a hundred thousand copies only in the Old World. A talented composer and poet, writing lyrics and music everywhere - on tour, at home, on the street - wherever inspiration visits him, he has the ability to harmoniously weave different styles and genres into a single musical fabric.
Johansson's last album from 2002, "Antenna," takes the listener back to the 80s, which from the height of the new millennium can already be called "retro." What Jay Jay has done this time is best described as "decadence": his new sound recalls both Pet Shop Boys and Erasure, and much of what was done by the "new romantics."
According to one British reviewer, "Jay Jay Johanson currently balances delicately between electro-funk-pop music and dynamic synth-pop. His lyrics touch on familiar themes: love, its search, life experience. Prepare to make a little room for him in your heart, and you won't regret it."
It’s fair, especially since Jay Jay Johanson's creativity is aimed at engaging a person's entire senses, perfectly fitting into the concept of the seven senses Sensation 7. Check your senses on July 25 at the Sphere club! Guest gathering at 21:00
On July 25, the legend of European electronic music - Jay Jay Johanson will perform at the Sphere club.