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Artist Highlight: Jan Roth

Today we had a chat with new artist Jan Roth. His brilliant debut album L.O.W , will be released on 29th July 2013. The album is packed with majestic and quirky melodies that strike a fine balance between post-rock, electronica and chamber music.

Let¹s begin by having you introduce yourself and declare your onstage weapon of choice:
I prefer quiet places. I'm very healthy, because I laugh a lot. My favourite animal is the sloth, a remarkably slick creature: too slow to be seen by predators; bumblebees are very cool, too. I like a simple life. My favourite colours are blue, green, yellow, and red, everything else is black and white.
When I say something, (some) people, including myself, have difficulties to recognize whether i'm just joking or actually serious. Music was my first love and it will be my last.
My onstage weapon of choice: no choice.



If you could create a new genre for your music, which one would it be:
Happy metal..?

Name the poster was hanging on your bedroom wall when you were fifteen:
I never gave my posters any names ... but seriously, don't remember.

Top tracks that been warming your iPod or spinning on Spotify recently:
I'm more like an old fashioned album listener.
MF Doom - Special Herbs
Alva Noto/Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen
Miles Davis - Four & More Recorded Live In Concert
Atoms for Peace - Amok
Jim Black Trio - Somatic

Name one of your musical guilty pleasures:
Karaoke-ing the sh*t out of Eros Ramazzotti' superhit "Se bastasse una canzone"

Pick one album from your youth, that made you think "this is what I am going to do for the rest of my life":
Keith Jarrett Trio - standards live (it was one of my first jazz records and I was instantly hooked on drummer Jack Dejohnette)



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