Barbieri & Karn Jansen Discography of CDs

Barbieri & Karn Jansen albums This remastered version of the classic ambient album features seven exclusive tracks. Back in 1984, shortly after the demise of the group Japan, Steve Jansen and Richard Barbieri were asked by JVC to compose a soundtrack to one of a series of 'ambient videos' to be released by the multi-national company. Recorded and mixed in Tokyo, 'Worlds In A Small Room' was a quintessential ambient ...

Barbieri & Karn Jansen music CDs Hot off the heels of Rain Tree Crow's dissolution, multi-instrumentalists Jansen and Barbieri return with another intriguing project. STONE TO FLESH largely forsakes ambient lands for more edgy climes, often interspersing their long, exploratory passages with elongated guitar lines and exotic percussive accents. "Mother London" and "Ringing the Bell Backwards" feature Jansen's clipped vocals, seriously reflective of brother (and former bandmate) David Sylvian, interspersed between ...

Barbieri & Karn Jansen discography Ex-Japan members unite for this 1999 album, ISM; includes "To The Core." JBK are capable of some exquisite work, but minus Sylvian they can be self indulgent, and Ism has far too many reference points. The excellent "Shallow Pool" throws in everything from sampled radio to violins. Barbieri's breezy synth work leads into a Jansen thrash for the chorus. Ism then struggles to find itself, ...

Barbieri & Karn Jansen songs This CD features live versions of some of these musicians' '90s output -- four of them Karn's, three from Jansen and Barbieri's Stories Across Borders, one from Rain Tree Crow, and two new. Barbieri's "Walkabout" is an Aboriginal trance. For "Types of Ambiguity," Jansen employs a simple piano motif, fusing it with crowd and synth sounds. Ironically, the meatier tracks -- "Big Wheels in ...

Barbieri & Karn Jansen CD discography Jansen, Barbieri & Karn, once three-fifths of legendary art rock band Japan, returned in 1999 with ISM, an electronic-tinged album which also contains much of the trio's original quirks. JBK are capable of some exquisite work, but minus Sylvian they can be self indulgent, and Ism has far too many reference points. The excellent "Shallow Pool" throws in everything from sampled radio to violins. Barbieri's breezy synth ...