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Adam Jansch

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorBorn in London in November 1981, Adam Jansch grew up around music, being the son of influential acoustic guitarist Bert Jansch . Through school he performed in various bands playing keyboard, guitar or bass guitar.
In 1997, after moving to Frome in Somerset, Adam became bass player for rock band 77th Cow , headed by Alastair O'Kane . This proved to be an excellent introduction to performance outside of the school setting and led, in 1998, to Adam forming Bellefield with fellow Cow guitarist Matt Keen and new boy Nick Baron on drums. The trio performed from home town Frome all the way to Totnes in Devon, and recorded a five-track EP entitled Rode .
At this time Adam had started a Music Technology course at City of Bath College and created a solo project. In 2000 the Rev Forty project was born, and over the next two years three LPs were realised: The Day Stars Collide (2001), Conquering Green Mountain (2001) and One Certain Dark (2002).
2001 saw Adam start an undergraduate degree in Music Technology at the University of Huddersfield and the introduction of previously unconsidered approaches and techniques saw him change his musical direction. The underdeveloped ideas of Rev Forty became disillusioning and Adam mothballed the project. During this time Adam collaborated with fellow student Nick Dawe on The Flat 39 Project and had also been keeping up on the bass guitar, having performed with his father on several occasions. Also, his bass playing had made its way onto two of his father's albums: Crimson Moon and Edge of a Dream .
2004 was a significant year for Adam, having completed his degree, composed a new album and performed more than he ever had. For a university project Adam set himself the task of writing a 30-minute album using Cycling 74's Max/MSP programming language as the main composing tool. Written under the name Hydletts Zoo , Passage Through Mysterious Forests (2004) is an ambient and minimal work whose electronic underpinnings produce a haunting and unsettling atmosphere.
On the performance side, Adam was the regular bass player for Battered Soul , a covers band organized by Andrew Lindo. He also started up The Nursery Crymes , managing to secure a slot at Glastonbury Festival's Avalon Café stage. Finally a performance as part of the Electric Spring Festival in Huddersfield saw Adam and fellow students Keith Forryan and Christina Lockwood perform Three Piece Suite , an electronic music performance played out on the set of a living room.
In 2005 Adam took the opportunity to continue studying, taking up a Masters in Studio Composition at Goldsmiths College, London. Notably, perhaps his strongest piece came from this period, the menacing multi-speaker Vortex . More significant though was the creation of The Lost Zoyd , a replacement for the obsoleted Rev Forty, and a consolidation of old and new pieces has produced the first album of the new project: Death/Rebirth (2007).

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Member Since: 27/04/2006
Band Website: http://www.adamjansch.co.uk
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Death/Rebirth now available in Huddersfield record shops

The Lost Zoyd's Death/Rebirth is now available in Huddersfield's independent record shop network at a price of £5. Where are they you ask? Here: Radar Records, Spin Records and Wall of Sound Rec...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:20:00 GMT

A significant change for The Chaos Engine.

It seems that as fast as the 'The Chaos Engine', follow up to Death/Rebirth, debut album of The Lost Zoyd, has been confirmed as underway its conceptual underpinnings are being tampered with to such a...
Posted by on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:32:00 GMT

Adam Jansch: V4 section change - a welcome to Music: undefined

In a major change to Adam Jansch: V4 the Concept Centre section has been replaced by a portal to Adam Jansch's new PhD research project entitled Music: undefined. The project, which should begin this ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:35:00 GMT

The first Adam Jansch interview - translated

As promised a translation of Adam Jansch's first interview, covering part of the relationship between himself and his father, into English has been completed and can be accessed at www.rock6070.com. M...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT

Photography at Adam Jansch: V4

As part of a structural change to the Adam Jansch: V4 Media Room the media sections have been rejigged, with the Visual section being renamed Graphic Art and an all new Photography section, replacing ...
Posted by on Sun, 25 May 2008 03:05:00 GMT

Research

It has been confirmed that come October this year Adam Jansch will be in full research mode having started a PhD at the University of Huddersfield. His research project, officially entitled 'compositi...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 09:55:00 GMT

Interviews

It's interview season for Adam Jansch it seems, with his first interview with rock website www.rock6070.com becoming active during the last week. Adam puts this down to a slice of good fortune, with i...
Posted by on Sun, 04 May 2008 01:23:00 GMT

The Chaos Engine.

It's the first blog entry in the first person, as it may be difficult to write this one otherwise. This posting is about 'The Chaos Engine', the proposed album to follow The Lost Zoyd's Death/Rebirth....
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:54:00 GMT

The next album of The Lost Zoyd

And so the story continues...Having finalised the concept for the next work of The Lost Zoyd, its creation has began. Details are scant thus far, what is known is that it is the sequel to Death/Rebirt...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:00:00 GMT

Adam Jansch: V4 back online

Adam Jansch: V4 is back running having been successfully linked up to its new host. Email is still a trouble so expect delayed replies.
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:35:00 GMT