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OTHER ISSUES MMVV: 2025
JAY-JAY JOHANSON
Jay-Jay Johanson, the Swedish musician with nearly three decades of experience, includes MMVV as part of his highly anticipated tour through Spain and Catalonia. Since his debut with Whiskey (1996), his career has developed through a discography that blends trip-hop, electronica, downtempo, jazz, and bossa nova. Always loyal to creative freedom and far from trends, he has built an elegant and distinctive aesthetic that cements his place as a key figure in European experimental pop.
Between the avant-garde and pop, dream and memory, Jay-Jay Johanson writes songs that resonate with an unusual elegance and coherence, unfolding like unsent letters to a lover: intimate, vaporous, full of unspoken fragilities. His voice, that of a contemporary crooner — and loner — plays at blurring genres and opens a crack in time, momentarily suspending it through electronic landscapes charged with subtle melancholy and fragmentary tenderness. From the delicacy and estrangement of his own brand of romanticism, this Scandinavian artist’s catalogue remains a thoughtful and hopeful response to that secret pain we all share.
Rita Rakosnik
Art historian