Steve Jansen & Charles Storm
01 126
An improvised performance recorded live at Cloudchamber, Gothenburg during the making of the second album of their band project 'Exit North'. Available only via Bandcamp. The download comes with front and rear sleeves in high resolution
Steve Jansen & Maiya Hershey
01 Toward The Surface
02 Vertical Sleep
03 Neither Present Nor Absent
04 As We Drift
05 Blue Nest
An ambient work recorded in Lebanon and London.
Subtle piano meld with gentle orchestral elements and synthesisers with layered sound design, loops and field recordings
Streaming available via Bandcamp. Vinyl (while stocks last) and streaming available from State51 Conspiracy
Music For A Dying Star - CD / Streaming - 2015
Alma Music Box x 11 Artists
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array telescope (or ALMA) sits 16,570 feet above sea level in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. Its 66 antennas peer into the depths of outer space. ALMA listens to the electromagnetic radiation that comes from the stars and pieces that data together to figure out what’s going on in outer space. The data recorded from R Sculptoris in 2011 was mapped directly to circular discs that could be played on a symphonium music box. 70 different radio images onto 70 musical discs. As the disc spins around the player, little teeth pluck the holes and emit a twinkling sound. It sounds sweet, like a lullaby coming from the mobile above a baby’s crib. But there’s a sadness to it, too, perhaps because we know the star is in the process of dying out forever
A selection of 11 artists were commissioned to compose music incorporating melodies drawn from a dying star
In 2016 the music was performed by the artists with the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra at the Miyako Messe in Kyoto
01 Alma Music Box No. 07
02 The Signals
03 Limbo
04 #31-#40
05 Sea Ice
06 Waves Of The Frequency
07 The Blossoms Close At Sunset
08 Lost Star
09 Thoughts Of Colours
10 Chascon 5850
11 Awai
12 Alma 712
Artists: Sawai Taeji | Mito | Steve Jansen | Goro Ito | Shuta Hasunuma | Taro Umebayashi | Throwing A Spoon | Shione Yukawa | Taikuh-Jikang | Christian Fennesz
Shift III - Nissan CM Tracks- CD - 2009
17 Artists
01 Design For Tomorrow
02 Waltz For Debby
03 Sowing The Seeds Of Love
04 Bongo Breaks
05 We Will Rock You
06 The Powered Suit
07 Driving In Your Car
08 C'Mon Everybody
09 Nanimo Iranai
10 La Vie En Rose
11 Open Arms
12 Use Me
13 Don't It Drive You Crazy
14 Now I Know
15 Sleepyard
16 Kitto Kitto!! Tooku Tooku!!
17 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
Jansen was commissioned to adapt his track "Sleepyard" for a Nissan TV cmmmercial shown in Japan
Nissan release tracks used in their commercials on CD, in their unadapted form
A Secret Life - CD - 2009
Steve D'Agostino, John Foxx & Steve Jansen
02 A Secret Life - Part 1
02 A Secret Life - Part 2
03 A Secret Life - Part 3
04 A Secret Life - Part 4
05 A Secret Life - Part 5
06 A Secret Life - Part 6
After meeting when performing with Harold Budd in 2005, (where Jansen performed one of Budd's pieces for solo gong), Foxx invited Jansen to record something similar for an ambient album. The result is "A Secret Life".
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Tribute- CD - 2007
12 Artists
01 Penguin Cafe Single
02 Air A Danser
03 Telephone And Rubber Band
04 Pythagoras's Trousers
05 Paul's Dance
06 Simon's Dream
07 Music For A Found Harmonium
08 Isle Of View (Music For Helicopter Pilots)
09 Southern Jukebox Music
10 Sketch
11 Perpetuum Mobile
12 Vega
11 Japanese artists plus Steve Jansen created a tribute album to the Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Track 8 "Isle of View" was performed, arranged and mixed by Steve Jansen
Christian Fennesz, Steve Jansen, Keigo Oyamada , Skuli Sverrisson & Ryuichi Sakamoto,
In August of 2005 Jansen took part in a special performance (along with the rest of the Ryuichi Sakamoto 2005 tour band members) at the ICC (NTT Intercommunication Center) - a cultural facility in Tokyo Opera City Tower in Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo.
The performance was an extension to the Laurie Anderson exhibit "The Record of the Time'" This was an improvised performance which also incorporated recorded narration from Laurie Anderson. The recording resides in the ICC archive
Steve Jansen & Claudio Chianura
01 Awakening
02 Operator
03 Gates Of Moscow
04 Life Size
05 Elevator
06 At Work
07 Playtime
08 Dusk
09 Machine Room
10 Mirror
11 Ballerina
Recorded in Milan, Palazzina Liberty on 11th December 1999, Steve Jansen with keyboardist Claudio Chianura, his brother Piero Chianura and guitarist Roberto Zorzi performed live to a screening of Dziga Vertov’s film "The Man With A Movie Camera" (Kinoapparatom). Originally released on Jansen's own Medium Productions label in 2001, this was reissued on Bandcamp in 2015 with three additional tracks by Jansen ("Machine room", "Mirror", "Ballerina"), all previously unreleased, taken from the same inspiration and completed in 2015.
The music is dark and foreboding whilst also at times playful and whimsical. As in the movie Kinoapparatom there are elements of magic and trickery and a sense of montage. Many fragments creating the whole. Virtov set about being a visual poet against the backdrop of everyday life in a Russia just prior to the weight of Stalinist orthodoxy that came crushing down on the avant-garde movement. This impending weight underlies many of the titles with mechanised loops and ambient dissonance, often interrupted by human or analogue frivolity.