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Steve Jansen is most famous for being the drummer of the band Japan. He has released a number of albums as a solo artist, and with former Japan bandmates David Sylvian (his brother), Richard Barbieri, and Mick Karn. After Japan's break up, Jansen recorded with bandmate Richard Barbieri under the name Jansen/Barbieri and released an instrumental album Worlds in a Small Room and later (Catch the Fall) as the Dolphin Brothers, with Jansen handling lead vocals as well as drums and percussion.
He released his first solo album, entitled Slope in 2007. Regarding the creative process behind the alb ...read more
Steve Jansen is most famous for being the drummer of the band Japan. He has released a number of albums as a solo artist, and with former Japan bandmates David Sylvian (his brother), Richard Barbieri, and Mick Karn. After Japan's break up, Jansen recorded with bandmate Richard Barbieri under the name Jansen/Barbieri and released an instrumental album Worlds in a Small Room and later (Catch the Fall) as the Dolphin Brothers, with Jansen handling lead vocals as well as drums and percussion.
He released his first solo album, entitled Slope in 2007. Regarding the creative process behind the album, Jansen stated that he "approached composition attempting to avoid chord and song structures and the usual familiar building blocks. Instead I wanted to piece together unrelated sounds, music samples, rhythms and 'events' in an attempt to deviate from my own trappings as a musician." The album was released on Samadhi Sound, and features Sylvian in a "bluesy" duet with Joan Wasser, and contributions by Anja Garbarek, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Thomas Feiner and Nina Kinert. On 15 April 2016 Jansen released a second solo album entitled Tender Extinction via Bandcamp and other digital music retailers. « hide |
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