"i hope my death makes more cents then my life"

the first song I learned to sing and accompany on the piano at the same time. so appropriate.

Yael Naim - My Dreams

"Sad big blue eyes" from Tango with Lions' debut album "Verba Time" released by InnerEar Records on June 21st 2010.

Sad Big Blue Eyes

Gregorio Allegri - Miserere mei, Deus.

Mademoiselle Noir-Peppinamusic

Hooverphonic With Orchestra - Vinegar And Salt

My Body is a Cage -Peter Gabriel

What he wrote - Laura Marling

Cayetano - Fairy Tales

Joker 2019 Soundtrack

Send In the Clowns (Joker Soundtrack Tribute)

I decided to make this little remix of Soap&Skin's "What a wonderful world" after watching the ending of the German Netflix series Dark. The ending was beautiful and... inspirational, in a way. Alongside Soap&Skin's cover of Louis Armstrong's 1967 hit "What A Wonderful World", the ending of the show spurred me to create something for my own personal closure to my favorite show.

A bit about Dark: the show is extremely thrilling and ambitious in its storytelling, delivering a mind-boggling, even tear-jerking ending to its masterful plot. The writers challenge the viewers to follow the story but never leave them in the dust. Give the show a watch if you have the time. It is phenomenal.

What A Wonderful World - Soap&Skin (DirtyElectro Dark Remix)

was in 1996 that Jay-Jay Johanson, a young man from a cold climate, fascinated by the Bristol sound they called trip-hop and Portishead in particular, first tapped delicately on our eardrums.
The intoxicating album that definitively put this rare and elegant Swede on the map was called Whiskey. It was the beginning of an enthralling adventure. In only a few songs he revealed a family tree that spread its roots far and wide: on one branch Lee Hazlewood, or pop from Talk Talk or Nilsson, on the other John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, and a whole army of calm jazz or symphonic
recordings sampled from everywhere imaginable.
Almost 20 years later he has returned with an
incredible new album. This new release is called Opium and it contains the very essence of Johanson’s music: an ease with inventing melodies, a voice that gently caresses, and the jacked up, heady rhythms that lift and carry the songs. From the peaceful harmonica opening of Drowsy / Too Young To Say Good Night to the smoke-wreathed love song I Don’t Know Much About Loving, via titles with a sporadic and light groove (NDE, Alone Too Long), Opium is a courageous offering. Johanson opens his heart with
fearlessness and modesty, gracefully lowering his guard and evoking the questions that torment men of his age: love, solitude, immaturity. The songwriting is unerring, the words have a suppressed poetry. This
new Johanson is the work of a guy who has survived the avalanches, who is no longer looking for answers and is content to sketch out the perspectives in as many songs. Some titles are serious (Harakiri), but others immediately take up the reins casting a more
gentle, peaceful light, like Scarecrow, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie that would not have sounded out of place on a Cocteau Twins album, or of the strange positivity of Be Yourself or I Love Him So.
The strength of Opium is that it asks questions that don’t necessarily have an answer; it offers a collection of songs freed from any certitude but which convince
through their modesty, through their precision.
In short, Jay-Jay at his best.

Send In the Clowns (Joker Soundtrack Tribute)

JAY-JAY JOHANSON

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