Ascultatorii intreaba, Jay Jay raspunde: un scurt inteview de warm-up si de facut idee despre cine e omul pe care-l veti vedea pe 4 decembrie la The Ark. Cine rateaza ala este.

OneDay: Is there a difference in the way your music relates to the music that is made now from, let’s say, the way things were ten years ago? Do you feel, musically speaking, closer or rather distanced from the present products on the market?

Jay Jay Johanson: Well, ten years ago…. hmmm…. I think the opposite. I fell that what I am making is closer to what was made 50 years ago (jazz), 40 years ago (singer/songwriter and folk), 35 years ago (kraut, psychedelia and soundtracks), 20 years ago (the beginning of what was later called trip hop), and I feel close to what is going on today with the acoustic improvisation, the new type of art-music scene. but ten years ago was the most horrible musical period ever, people were only focusing on sampling, and beats and breaks, there was no interest in storytelling and melody or the vocal capability of the singer. now things have changed luckily.

OD: Please tell us some of your favorite new/recent bands.

JJJ: Tape, Burial, Fink, Midlake. But I actualy don’t listen to so many new bands, well, I actually don’t listen to so much music at all….

OD: What’s your favorite music to dance to?

JJJ: I don’t dance.

OD: Apparently people preferr listening to singles, or to select their own songs, or just to shuffle them instead of  approaching an album from beginning to end. Do you think the structure of an album should look different in the future, in order to comply with the way we listen to music?

JJJ: The way people listen to music has always changed, before Beatles’ Sgt Pepper nobody listened to an album from the beginning to the end, but after it became the new standard, now the trend is something else, But it will pass sooner or later, and the way we build up the dramaturgy of an album by choosing the order of the songs will in the future possibly be listened to in the way it was meant to be heard…

OD: If you were to choose an American director and compose a soundtrack for his movie, who would it be?

JJJ: Hitchcock, Kubrik.

OD: What is the weirdest thing a fan or someone from the audience ever said to you?

JJJ: Well, said… I don’t know, but they once ripped my pants apart in Turkey.

OD: Tell us three things you imagine about Romania (or just Bucharest).

JJJ: A great young generation, interesting past – interesting future, great food experiences.

OD: Where is your best place in the world?

JJJ: Tokyo, Reykjavik and Home.