[SRB] Jan Blomqvist nije imao lak put do svoje karijere. Od barmena do LIVE virtouza, ovaj umetnik iz Berlina je prošao trnovit put. Uspeli smo da ga uhvatimo u pauzi između gigova i pred njegov nastup u Beogradu koji će se održati 13. aprila ove godine gde će nam predstaviti nove i neizdate pesme.
[ENG] Jan Blomqvist didn’t have an easy way through his career. From bartender to LIVE virtuoso, this artist from Berlin went through the thorny way. We managed to get him in the pause between the gigs and before of his performance in Belgrade where he will on 13th of April present his unreleased tracks.
Ćao Jan, drago nam je da dolaziš u Beograd i svi su uzbuđeni u vezi ovog događaja, tako da želimo da ti zahvalimo na vremenu koje si izdvojio za nas i ovaj intervju.
[SRB] 1. Ko je Jan LIVE i ko je Jan u klubu?
[SRB] 1. Ako je ovo pitanje u razlikama kada sviram sam i sa bendom, odgovorio bih: Sa svojim bendom, svako svira svoj instrument uživo. To zahteva vežbu i daje manje prostora za improvizaciju. Kada sam sam, očigledno ne mogu da sviram svaki instrument sam, tako da koristim Ableton live i semplove. U klubu, bliži sam sa publikom tako da mogu lakše da uhvatim atmosferu na podijumu i da reagujem na nju. To čini celo iskustvino intenzivnijim. Malo intenzivnijim nego što je postavljen live gig sa bendom. Sve u svemu, Jan LIVE i Jan u klubu je otprilike isto: Moja muzika se svira uživo u oba slučaja, samo na drugačiji način. Ono što moram da dodam je da nikada ne DJišem. 🙂
[ENG] Hello Jan, We are glad that you are coming to Belgrade. Everybody is so excited about this event and we want to thank you for making time for answering to us in this interview.
[ENG] 1. Who is Jan LIVE and Jan in the club?
If this is a question about the difference between me playing alone or with the band, I would answer: With my band, every instrument is played live. This needs practice and gives less room for improvisation. When I’m alone, I obviously can’t play every instrument myself, so I play with Ableton live, using samples. In the club, by myself, I’m much closer to the audience and can more easily catch the vibe on the dancefloor and react to it. This makes it an intense experience. A bit more intense than the structured live gig with the band. But all in all, Jan LIVE and Jan in the club is kind of the same: My music is played live both times just in a slightly different way. What I need to add: I don’t DJ. Like ever. 🙂
[SRB] 2. Da li je tačno da nikada nisi plakao kao dete, da si samo pevao?
[SRB] 2. To je iz moje biografije koja stoji već neko vreme. U stvari je to prvo bila fora, karikatura kliše biografije muzičara. Svakako, ima istine u tome. Često su mi roditelji govorili da sam pevao kao dete. Pre nego što sam progovorio, budio sam ih ujutru u 6 pevajući im u krevetu.
[ENG] 2. Is it true that you never cried as a kid, only sang?
This is from a biography of mine that was out there for some time. It was actually
meant as a joke, a caricature of the cliché musician’s biography. Anyway, there is
a grain of truth in it. I’m often told by my parents that I sang a lot as a child. Even
before I could properly talk, often waking them at 6 in the morning by singing
in bed.
[SRB] 3. Kakva je razlika u postupku pravljenja pesme sa bendom i kada radiš solo kao producent/DJ?
[SRB] 3. Zapravo ne postoji razlika između ta dva. Pesme koje pišem ja i moj pijanista u studiju su samo drugačije struktuirane za nastup, bilo da nastupam sam ili sa bendom. Ista je muzika, iste su pesme. Sa bendom imamo opciju da sviramo pesme na drugačiji način, da eksperimentišemo sa brzinom, brejkovima i sa mojim vokalom. To nije baš moguće na podijumu kluba gde muzika mora da bude precizna kako bi ljudi plesali. 120-124 BPM-a je tu pravilo.
[ENG] 3. What’s the difference in workflow of making a track in the band and as a solo
producer/DJ?
[ENG] 3. There actually is no difference between the two. The songs are written by me and my pianist in the studio and are just differently realized on stage whether I’m
playing alone or with the band. It’s the same music, the same tracks. With the
band, we have the possibility to play tracks in a different way, to experiment with
speed, with breaks, with my voice. That’s not possible on the dance floor of a club
where the music needs to be on point and – bam – makes people dance.
120-124BPM is the rule for that.
[SRB] 4. Ti si eksplodirao oko 2011. i kasnije sarađivao sa Oliverom Koletzkim – kako je došlo do toga?
[SRB] 4. Ja i Oli smo se upoznali 2008. na afteru kod mene. Bili smo mladi i dalje smo radili te stvari tada 🙂 Stvarno mu se svidela moja muzika i želeo je da je izda. Ali nisam tada bio spreman, a ni zadovoljan sa svojim pesmama. 3 godine kasnije, ponovo smo se našli, super se združili i počeli smo da radimo zajedno. Želeo je moje vokale na svom albumu. Tako je pesma sa mojim vokalima odabrana da bude prvi singl na Großstadtmädchen 2 albumu što je bilo sjajno i za mene i njega. I dalje smo prijatelji i voleo bih da ponovo radim sa njim iako smo se muzički pomerili u drugim pravcima od naše saradnje. Tako da, Oli ako čitaš ovo: Hajde da radimo ponovo zajedno. 🙂
[ENG] 4. You exploded around 2011. and later collaborated with Oliver Koletzki. How that happened?
[ENG] 4. Me and Oli met in 2008 at an after hour at my place. We were young and still did these things back then. 🙂 He really liked my music and wanted to release it. But I wasn’t ready back then, wasn’t satisfied with the tracks yet. 3 years later we got together again, got along great and started working together. He wanted my vocals on his album. That the track with my vocals was then chosen to be the first single on Großstadtmädchen 2 was great for me and him. We are still friends and I would actually love to work with him again although we have musically moved in slightly different directions since our collaboration. So, Oli, if you are reading this: Let’s work together again. 🙂
[SRB] 5. Nedavno si izdao „Winter Roads“ – da li možeš da nam ispričaš priču iza tebe pesme i šta je sledeće što dolazi?
[SRB] 5. Priča iza „Winter Roads“ pesme počinje kada su me pitali da obradim Vivalidijevu „Zimu“ iz „Četiri Godišnja Doba“. Svidela nam se bas linija Vivaldijeve pesme toliko da smo odlučili da je još malo obradimo. Rezultat je „Winter Roads“ pesma. Zato što je mračna i zato što je zima dolazila, odlučili smo da je odmah izdamo. Čak i pre albuma, iako na njemu radimo već 2 godine. Skoro smo ga završili. Naziv albuma je Disconnected. Plan nam je da imamo 4 izdanja u 2018. 3 EP-ja sa po 3 pesme preko leta i da to prati na kraju album u septembru. Pesme su snimljenje na četiri različite lokacije: u Berlinu, na Islandu, u Njujorku i u Kaliforniji. Dok odgovaram na ova pitanja, nalazim se trenutno u studiju, u Joshua National Tree parku dok sam na pauzi između snimanja.
[ENG] 5. You recently released „Winter Roads“ – can you tell us the story behind that track and what’s coming next?
[ENG] 5. The story of Winter Roads started when I was asked to rewrite Vivaldi’s Winter of the Four Seasons. We liked the baseline of the Vivaldi track so much that we decided to work with it some more. The result is the Winter Roads track. Because it’s so dark and winter was approaching, we decided to release it immediately. Even before the album that we have been working on for 2 years now. We are almost done with it by now. The name of the album is Disconnected. Our plan is to have four releases in 2018. 3 EPs with 3 tracks over the summer, followed by the album in September. The tracks were recorded in four different locations: in Berlin, on Iceland, in New York, and in California. I’m actually answering these questions at a studio in the Joshua National Tree Park while having a break from recording.
[SRB] 6. Koji je najbolji savet koji si dobio kada ti je bilo teško?
[SRB] 6. Najbolji savet koji sam ikada dobio je da treba da verujem u sebe i da ostanem iskren sebi ko sam jer na kraju, samo ti znaš šta te čini srećnim. Čuo sam to poprilično često, ali i dalje je istinito. Ako prestaneš da budeš autentičan i pokušaš da budeš neko drugi, ljudi će prestati da te shvataju ozbiljno. U suštini, ali i na bini. Možda to nije tačno za druge segmente muzičke industrije. U pop muzici je možda bitno da igraš uloge. U ovoj maloj niši i muzici u kojoj živim, moje iskustvo je da ljudi ti daju kredita ako si posao uradio na svoj način i svim svojim srcem stao iza toga. To isto znači ako ti se ne sviđa više pesma, ne sviraš je više. I ako imaš nekad konflikt, moraš da budeš egoističan.
[ENG] 6. What’s the best advice you ever received when it was tough for you?
[ENG] 6. The best advice I ever got is that you have to trust in yourself and stay true to who you are because in the end, only you know what makes you happy. I’ve heard this quite often actually, but it’s still true. If you stop being authentic and try to be someone else, people stop taking you seriously. In general but also on stage. Maybe this is not true for other parts of the music business. In pop music, it might be important to even play with roles. In the little niche me and my music are living in, my experience is that people give you credit if you have done the work yourself and wholeheartedly stand behind what you do. This also means that if you don’t like a song anymore, you stop playing it. And, if there’s a conflict, you sometimes have to be egoistic.
[SRB] 7. Za kraj reci nam šta ljudi u Beogradu mogu da očekuju od tebe 13. aprila 2018?
[SRB] 7. Ja i moj bend ćemo svirati dosta neizdatih pesama! Počeo sam da ih sviram tokom solo nastupa, ali u Beogradu će po prvi put biti show na kom će ceo bend njih izvesti na bini. Show će biti kao napredna turneja oko albuma. Uzbudljivo će biti! 🙂
[ENG] 7. For the end tell us what can Belgrade people expect from you on 13th of April
2018?
[ENG] 7. Me and my band will play a lot of new unreleased tracks! I started to play them during solo gigs already, but the Belgrade show will be the first time that the band will perform them on stage. The show will be kind of like an advanced album tour gig. Exciting! 🙂
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