The last time I wrote about Jamin Pirnia, his own name was the headline, and Jamin’ With Jamin was mentioned in the text as a new project. And it’s under the name Jamin’ With Jamin that he’s continued to perform, a project in constant change, musically and when it comes to the members, but with Jamin and his music as the core and heart of the project. For some time, though, some members have remained with the project, like for example Linda Sunesdotter on violin.

Finally in Autumn Jamin’ with Jamin released a studio production, the four track EP “Live Now”, produced by Jens Andersson (The Ark). And it’s quite a different sound on this recording than the ones Jamin has released earlier. Closer to the stage than the scene I would say, where the drama is more apparent in this mix of cabaret-folk-indie-disco-pop, most notably in the re-recorded Lipstick Killer.

In July last year I also had the opportunity to see Jamin’ With Jamin live, and it was a wonderful concert. There are few artists I know of, that can create such a feeling of togetherness between the artist and the audience, like Jamin. And the songs grow in such an intense way I think would be impossible to recreate in a studio, they experiment and change. A recommended experience.

Here are two songs with Jamin’ With Jamin. Listen to the EP on Spotify or on Bandcamp. You can also find Jamin’ With Jamin on Facebook.

Live Now
Dosell

It just happened that way that I’ve seen Jamin Pirnia perform live four times during the last 8 months. Predictable? Boring? Well, nothing could be further from the truth.

Jamin is an artist that is in constant movement. Actually I think he is uncapable of repeating himself. I have spoken to him a couple of times before concerts, and listening to him describing the concert, feels like listening to an artist preparing his next painting. For Jamin each scene is like a unique canvas ready to be filled with new colours, feelings, people and music.

The show changes and develops right in front of my eyes. On one concert he is alone with his piano, the next time he has also a sampler and a friend playing a minimoog. Then there is a band with three members and suddenly there are ten people on stage with a theatrical act going on in front of the stage. Theater, masks, megaphones but also stillness. He fascinates, provokes and invites you to surprises. Some of the songs may be the same from one concert to another and also in his different incarnations as Transparent Blanche, Jamin Pirnia or Jamin’ with Jamin, but the experience is always new.

Maybe the strongest about Jamin on stage is his presence, his ability to deliver no matter what. It doesn’t matter if there are only ten people in the audience, spread out along the walls of a big concert hall, or if there are hundreds of people on a crowded market square. When he looks up after finishing a song, you can sense in his smile that sweet happiness and satisfaction of having been given the opportunity to play right here and now for you.

Enjoy his music by listening to some tracks from his project Transparent Blanche:

Lipstick Killer
Lime
Song of Despair
Ak/not 47

Jamin Pirnia, solo:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDJUeTd0iD0

Jamin Pirnia and Transparent Blanche’s web site

Transparent Blanche on Myspace

/Pär