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LOW STOCK LEVEL
1-2 Weeks
01. STEVE JANSEN - Captured
02. STEVE JANSEN - Sadness
03. STEVE JANSEN - Her Distance
04. STEVE JANSEN - Memory of An Imagined Place
05. STEVE JANSEN - Give Yourself A Name
06. STEVE JANSEN - Diaphanous One
07. STEVE JANSEN - Faced With Nothing
08. STEVE JANSEN - Mending A Secret
09. STEVE JANSEN - Simple Day
10. STEVE JANSEN - And Birds Sing All Night
ARTIST
TITLE
Tender Extinction
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SJ 001CD SJ 001CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/16/2016

In 1978, Japan released their debut album Adolescent Sex and kick started a career that would span decades. With Steve Jansen on drums, the band enjoyed huge success whilst simultaneously creating a back catalogue of music that still inspires today. Fast forward to 2007 and after many years working and collaborating with artists such as Richard Barbieri, Yukihiro Takahashi, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Bernd Friedmann, Steve released his debut, solo album Slope. Steve Jansen's second solo album Tender Extinction is an evocative blend of songs and instrumentals enlisting some of the singer/songwriters that appeared on Jansen's previous solo work Slope, namely Tim Elsenburg (Sweet Billy Pilgrim) and Thomas Feiner (Anywhen), as well as featuring new collaborations with Perry Blake (Ireland), Melentini (Greece), Nicola Hitchcock (UK) and including some vocal performances by Jansen himself. Atmospheric sound design creates a bed of complex, often atonal qualities, with delicate synth and orchestral arrangements drifting throughout to produce a multi-layered, emotive and hauntingly intimate album. Some titles are punctuated with Jansen's characteristically minimal drum patterns and off-kilter time signatures while others are structured with more classical elements such as piano, cello and orchestral string arrangements. All music and arrangements are by Jansen with guests vocalists providing their own lyrics and vocal melodies on five of the tracks. Steve on the album: "I spent a long time with the material, honing it down to those elements that blend together well in an attempt to allow the dissonance that weaves throughout much of the music to settle into its own space and not overly distract from the more harmonious content. The album is somewhat reflective and subtly addresses aspects of transience and transformation and a romance in holding onto those things we think of as precious and that will inevitably cease to exist."