Steve Jansen



album in pagina:

- Worlds In A Small Room
   (with Richard Barbieri)
- Ism
- A Secret Life
   (with Steve D'Agostino & John Foxx)
- Slope
- Beginning To Melt
   (with Richard Barbieri and Mick Karn)
- Pulse X Pulse
   (with Yukihiro Takahashi)
- Stone To Flesh
   (with Richard Barbieri)
- Tender Extinction
- The Extunct Suite

collabora in:

- Marco Polo vol. II
  (Nicola Alesini)

- Stranger Inside
  (Richard Barbieri)

- Smiling And Waving
  (Anja Garbarek)

- Your Sleekest Engine
  (Genre Peak)

- Alexandrine
- One Thousand Birds
  (Grice)

- Adolescent Sex
- Gentlemen Take Polaroid
- Obscure Alternative
- Oil On Canvas
- Quiet Life
- Tim Drum
  (Japan)

- Dreams Of Reason Produced Monster
- Bestial Cluster
- The Tooth Mother
  (Mick Karn)

- Brilliant Tree
- Dead Bees On A Cake
- Died In The Wool
- Gone To Earth
- Pop Song
- Rain Tree Crow
- Secrets Of The Beehive
- Words With The Shaman
  (David Sylvian)

- What Means Solid, Traveller?
  (David Torn)

- Rice Music
  (Masami Tsuchiya)

- Worlds In A Small Room
with Richard Barbieri
(1987) Pan East 105 - vinile

1. Breaking The Silence 3.38 - 2. Toys 2.42 - 3. Blue Lines 4.14 - 4. Mission 4.50 - 5. The Way The Light Falls 5.05 - 6. Balance 3.40 - 7. Moving Circles 4.27 - 8. Distant Fire 5.21

Musicians:
Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri

Produced by Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri
Recorded at Victor Aoyama Studios, Tokyo on November 1984
Engineering by Tatsuo Umezu
Cover by Stylorouge

“Mondi in una piccola stanza” è un magnifico titolo per quest’opera placida e meditativa. Non rimane che immaginarla raccolta e discreta.
Steve Jansen e Richard Barbieri hanno realizzato una sorta di colonna sonora per celebrare a modo loro i maestri dell’ambient music che li hanno più ispirati.
Si potrebbe supporre una qualche connessione con il disco strumentale che David Sylvian ha incluso nel suo ottimo Gone To Earth, ma Worlds In A Small Room riluce in climi espressivi differenti e risponde con precisione ad un diverso progetto artistico.
Laddove infatti David Sylvian conferisce splendida unità all’insieme dei vari episodi concepiti sull’onda delproprio ideale estetico, Steve Jansen e Richard Barbieri paiono rivolti all’espressione di un’assoluta varietà tematica, esponendo il loro disco al rischio di apparire frammentario o poco personale e vincendo con semplice poesia.
Si avvertono accentti e influenze di Harold Budd, David Van Tieghem, il David Bowie berlinese, Riuichi Sakamoto e naturalmente Brian Eno.
Non mancano momenti di notevole efficacia, vibranti ed impalpabili pathos e di magiche inflessioni intimistiche: Breaking The Silence, sospesa come un albatro ai fluidi aerei di un pianismo perlaceo; la bellissima Distant Fire, i colori proibiti di Moving Circles, le simmetrie cristalline in The Way The Light Falls.
Ora che David Sylvian è riuscito ad esprimersi al massimo grado della propria ispirazione, ora che i Japan paiono sul punto di riformarsi, Worlds In A Small Room è testimonianza preziosa di un talento vivissimo e generoso da parte di due musicisti intelligenti e raffinati come Steve Jansen e Richard Barbieri.
Alessandro Calovolo da Rockerilla n° 77 Gennaio 1987

- Ism
(1999) Medium mpcd 9 -cd

1. The Swallow Pool 6.32 - 2. To The Core 4.30 - 3. Sacrifice 2.43 - 4. Cold Light 6.39 - 5. Carry The Ashes 8.30 - 6. Red Track Dance 7.30 - 7. Beast Haunted 4.45 - 8. Alone In His Shoes 5.46 - 9. Found In A Shell Of Murmurs 4.48 

Musicians:
Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Mick Karn, David Torn, Aziz Ibrahim, Sugizo, Zoe Niblett, Masami Tsuchiya, Theo Travis, Nick Cooper, Clive Bell

Produced by Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri and Mick Karn
Recorded at Kashmir, London on November 1997 and June 1998
Engineering by Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri
Cover by photo by Andy Earl

- A Secret Life
(2009) Metamatic meta 22 - cd

1. A Secret Life (part 1) - 2. A Secret Life (part 2) - 3. A Secret Life (part 3) - 4. A Secret Life (part 4) - 5. A Secret Life (part 5) - 6. A Secret Life (part 6)

Musicians:
Steve Jansen, Steve D'Agostino, John Foxx

Produced by Steve Jansen, Steve D'Agostino and John Foxx




- Slope
(2007) Samandhisound  ss012 cd

1. Grip - 2. Sleepyard - 3. Cancelled Pieces - 4. December Train - 5. Sow The Salt - 6. Gap Of Cloud - 7. Playground Martyrs - 8. A Way Of Disappearing - 9. Ballad Of A Deadman - 10. Conversation Over - 11. Life Moves On - 12. Playground Martyrs (reprise)

Musicians:
Steve Jansen, Theo Travis, Tim Elsenburg, Anja Garbarek, David Sylvian, Thomas Feiner, Ingo Frenzel, Joan Wasser, Alberto Tafuri, Nina Kinert

Produced by Steve Jansen
Engineering by Steve Jansen
Cover by Chris Bigg

- Beginning To Melt
with Richard Barbieri and Mick Karn
(1993) Medium mp 1 - vinile

1. Beginning To Mail 11.50 - 2. The Wilderness 4.45 - 3. March Of The Innocents 4.09 - 4. Human Age 5.41 - 5. Shipwrecks 6.21 - 6. Ego Dance 7.39 - 7. The Orange Asylum 6.11

Musicians:
Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Mick Karn, Steve Wilson, David Torn, Robby Aceto, Rob Dean

Produced by Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri and Mick Karn
Recorded in London during summer '93
Cover by Mike Diver

- Pulse X Pulse
with Yukihiro Takahashi
(1998) Medium  mp7 - cd

1. Life's Like That 5.14 - 2. The Choice 5.14 - 3. Wave 5.53 - 4. Memory Without Consequence 5.01 - 5. A River Dry 5.13 - 6. Prayer Of Gold 4.53

Musicians:
Steve Jansen, Yukihiro Takahashi, Zoe Niblette, Hirofumi Tokutake, Kyon, Sonia Metha, Aziz Ibrahim, Theo Travis, Ben Coleman, Tony Mastield

Produced by Steve Jansen and Yukihiro Takahashi
Recorded at Consipio Studio and Metropolis Studio (London)
Engineering by Daysuke Makayama
Cover art by Mitsuo Shindo

- Stone To Flesh
with Richard Barbieri
(1995) KScope 338 - cd

1. Mother London 8.48 - 2. Sleepers Awake 9.14 - 3. Ringing The Bell Backyards 9.42 - 4. Swim There 8.06 - 5. Closer Than "i" 7.13 - 6. Everything Ends In Darkness 7.17 - 7. Map Of Falling 7.33

Musicians:
Steve Jansen, Steven Wilson, Steve Hogarth, Mark Feltham, Colin Edwin, David Torn, Richard Barbieri

Produced by Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri
Recorded at StudioFobia and The Orange Asylum, London during Winter 1994/1995
Engineering by Steve Jansen

- Tender Extinction
(2016) Steve Jansen sj01 - cd

1. Capured - 2. Sadness - 3. Her Distance - 4. Memory Of An Imagined Place - 5. Give Yourself A Name - 6. Diaphanous One - 7. Faced With Nothing - 8. Mending A Secret - 9. Simple Day - 10. And Birds Sing All Night

Musicians:
Steve Jansen, Thomas Feiner, Melentini, Perry Blake, Seigen Tokuzawa, Tim Elsenburg, Nicola Hitchcock, Stelios Romaliadis, Giorgos Varoutas

Produced by Steve Jansen
Engineering by Steve Jansen
Cover photo by Steve Jansen

- The Extinct Suite
(2017) Steve Jansen sj02 - vinile

1. The Extinct Suite 55.47

Musicians:
Steve Jansen, Melentini Toila, Seigen Tokuzawa, Thomas Feiner, Stelios Romaliadis, Giorgos Varoulas

Produced by Steve Jansen
Recorded at Steve Jansen Studios, Tokyo on 2017
Engineering by Steve Jansen
Cover photo by Anna Malina Zemlianski