Johanson

The best live albums put you right there on the front row. And as the raucous Friday-night crowd welcomes Eric Johanson to the stage at the Ground Zero Club in Biloxi, Mississippi, for a set that mines his Billboard-topping studio catalogue, you’ll feel this generational performer in your bones. “I want Live In Mississippi to make people feel like they're at our show,” says the Louisiana-born bandleader of the live album bottled last August in the home of the blues and released in March 2025 on Ruf Records. “Whether they've just seen the band and want to take a piece of that home with them, or they’ve never seen us perform at all, I want it to bring across the energy and emotion of the live show.”

After a first best of dedicated to the first part of his career, (PROLOGUE (1996-2013), EMI), Jay-Jay Johanson releases a second best of featuring all the best song of the second part of his discography, including the new song LABYRINTH. Among the 15 tracks: "Heard somebody whistle" his biggest success until now, "Vertigo" & the piano piece "The girl with the Sun in her eyes" which has been chosen to illustrate the new BALENCIAGA fall 22 campaign. Through the years, Jay-Jay is still following his initial influences: jazz, pop & trip hop. At the occasion of his 25 years career anniversary, Jay-Jay Johanson, who reminds since the beginning "Chet Baker's voice" still make us enchanted with a new song probably one of his strongest ballad written.

Jay-Jay Johanson 's 14th album is one of the most refreshing of his discography. After an introspective and intimate trilogy (“Bury the hatchet” (2017), “Kings Cross” (2019) “Rorschach Test” (2021), FETISH open a new era for the iconic Swedish artist. With this new album Jay - Jay Johanson explore the melancholic, aerial atmosphere that makes the DNA of his music with a cinematographic view. On the other side he offers songs made for the most elegant dancefloors with "Stars Aligns" and "Jeopardize" with their electronic hypnotic melodies.

Unique melancholic: tenth album by the Swedish Electronic-Songwriters.
Since 1996 the Swedish producer, songwriter and singer Jay Jay Johanson provides us regularly with his coined by film-noire atmosphere and jazzy vocals Trip-Hop and Electronic. With "Opium" Jay Jay Johanson puts before his tenth album, which in ten songs he tells us ten stories and once again takes us into its very own world, always something otherworldly-looking.

Après avoir vendu plus d’un million d’album à travers la planète, le suédois Jay-Jay Johanson présente Bury the Hatchet son 11ème album. Considéré dès ses débuts, à la fin des années 90, comme l’un des pionniers de la scène trip hop, Jay-Jay Johanson interprète d’une voix douce, qui n’est pas sans rappeler Chet Baker, des textes sensibles sur une patte mélodique immédiatement reconnaissable.

A NEW TIMELESS CLASSIC BY THE SWEDISH CROONER - FEAT. JEANNE ADDED & ROBIN GUTHRIE.Kings Cross is the new album of Swedish crooner Jay-Jay Johanson, featuring Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins)and a duet with Jeanne Added. The opening track "NotTime Yet" sets the mood right away: a cinematic triphop that has been Jay-Jay Johanson's blueprint sincethe mid-90s. The first single < Heard SomebodyWhistle" is a high tempo driven big beats jazz bangerwith an unforgettable whistling hook. Again Jay-Jaymanages to capture us with his melancholicoutstanding voice, singing haunting melodies, dressedup in mysterious sounds and experimental drum beats.

New Orleans based Eric Johanson was tearing up nightclub stages in Louisiana with his soulful blues guitar before he finished high school. He has toured across the US and internationally as lead guitarist for the legendary Cyril Neville, Grammy-winning Zydeco artist Terrance Simien, and performed onstage with Tab Benoit, JJ Grey & Mofro, Eric Lindell, Mike Zito, Anders Osborne, the Neville Brothers, and many more. Recently signed to Whiskey Bayou Records, his debut album was produced and engineered by Tab Benoit at his studio in Houma, featuring Tab on drums, and Corey Duplechin on bass.