CD JO..N", "RISE & FALL", DMG 2002 IS AVAILABLE BY: TOCA Records
CD JO..N, "SWEET NOTHINGS", DMG 2004 IS AVAILABLE BY: TOCA Records
PAINTINGS and "BLIND" DRAWINGS copyright by Johanna Faßbender www.johannafassbender.com
Jo..N is a singer/performer/songwriter/professional artist
The languages in which she sings are German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Russian.
PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT MORE PAINTINGS/DRAWINGS/PICTURES AT
www.myspace.com/johannafassbender
AND
www.johannafassbender.com.
THE STORY:
Born in Cologne...childhood in Bavaria...ABBA - the first big musical love...school choir...then Leonard Cohen...back to Cologne...Mozart..s "Requiem" in a church choir...Peter Gabriel, The Doors, John Cale...a turn to the fine arts...studies in art...in her early twenties Big Label-Contract as bassplayer and backing vocalist...again fine arts...Francis Bacon...discovery of Eric Satie, Dead Can Dance...speech training, studies in classical and jazz-singing...Lead- Singer of a Big-Band...development of her first own songs...together with the musician and producer Markus Apitius: the birth of "Jo..N"...concerts with various musicians...a short trip to Drum..n Bass... Lead-Singer of a Jazz/Bossa Nova-Group...first exhibitions..."blind nudes and self portrait drawings"...big and abstract oil-paintings...1999 beginning of the work on "Rise & Fall"...piano lessons...engagement with New Music...Iannis Xenakis... Strasberg-Training ...Performances...2002 "Rise & Fall"...cooperation/ concerts in Cologne/Bonn with Markus Apitius, guit., voc., Robert Gasper, piano, voc., Mike Haarman, drums...2004 "Sweet Nothings"...moving from Cologne to Berlin...trips to the north cape, to Alaska... slowly arriving at Berlin...studio in Berlin-Weissensee ...Santiago de Compostela...and again concerts...CD "two steps" with kara deniz... trips to Scandinavia and Russia...concerts in Greece, singing old pontiac songs together with EUDOUSIN..."Jo..N"-concerts with Joro Gogow "City" and Ilya Kurtev in Berlin...interpretation of Georges Brassens-Chansons...trip to France..."Johanna Fassbender & Band"...trip to England...trip to the USA...participation in Georges-Brassens-Festival, Berlin...
May 2008 beginning of the work on her new album "LA VIE TROUVÉE"...
Some references of Jo..N/Johanna Fassbender as musician/artist:
WDR, Deutschlandradio, BR, HR, Theater im Ballsaal (Bonn), Deutsche Welle, Internationaler Presseball, Museumsmeile Bonn, BUND, RWE, Kammermusiksaal des Beethovensaals Bonn, IGNIS (Cologne), Kantine (Cologne), Crowne Plaza, Stadtgarten (Cologne), Palace Hotel (Berlin), Siemens, Kölner Bank, Auswärtiges Amt, Bayer Leverkusen, WABE (Berlin), Georges Brassens-Verein (Berlin), LUXOR (Cologne), Festival Créole (Dortmund), Mylos (Thessaloniki), Festival St. Stefano (Athen), Rickenbacker..s (Berlin), PodcastOper (Berlin), Haus der Sinne (Berlin), Tour d..Atélier (Düsseldorf), ARTheater (Cologne), Filmhaus (Cologne), Köln Klang 2000 (Cologne), Jazzmeile (Cologne), Harmonie (Bonn), Theater 89 (Jüterbog), Arcadas Theater (Cologne), Studio672 (Cologne), BlueShell (Cologne), MTC (Cologne), BerlinGuitars (Berlin), ECC (Berlin), Löhrer Hof (Hürth), Schokoladenmuseum (Cologne), Kulturhaus Mitte (Berlin), Bungertshof (Königswinter), Domforum (Cologne), Rhein in Flammen (Cologne/Bonn), Schlot (Berlin), Englischer Garten (Berlin)
