Jay Jay Johanson

Jay-Jay Johanson (born 1969) is a Swedish musician and singer-songwriter, known for his melancolic vocals and his androgynous looks. His music has integrated the trip-hop genre until he switched his sound to a more electroclash-oriented direction with the 2003 release Antenna, which featured "On The Radio".

Biography

Swedish singer/songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson, born in Trollh?ttan, October 11, 1969, released his first album, "Whiskey", in August 1996. Recorded at Break My Heart Studios, in the Stockholm archipelago. The album was caractarized by its jazzy vocals over trippy, film noir arrangements.

In 1998, Johanson released "Tattoo", taking a step into a more richly textured, poetic ambience. Johanssons third album, "Poison", was released in April 2000 and went straight into the French charts at number four. The album featured contributions from The Cocteau Twins founder and guitarist Robin Guthrie. The same year Johanson also composed the soundtrack to the film "La Confusion Des Genres", made by French director Ilan Cohen, and in 2001, Jay-Jay Johanson emerged with "Cosmodrome", a sound-and-image installation first exhibited in Dijon. This art-piece has travelled around the world and was last shown at Mus?e d'Art Modern in Paris.

"Antenna" was released in 2002, recorded with assistance from german electronica experimentalists Funkst?rung. 2004 marked the release of a compilation, "Prologue", meant for the American market. It was followed by new album "Rush" in 2005, an album partly produced by French producer Jean-Pierre Ensuque.

In the spring of 2006 Jay-Jay Johanson called together the musicians he had worked with on the three first albums, and January 2007 saw the release of their collaborative effort "The Long Term Physical Effects Are Not Yet Known". A "Long Term" tour started off in China and continued to more that 30 cities around the world.

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