JOSEPHA CONRAD: lyrics, composition, vocals, bass, guitar PHILIPP CONRAD: lyrics, composition, vocals, guitar, piano
and sometimes...
(in europe)
BEN MONTGOMERY: trumpet, piano
KAREN WEBER: cello
TOMMY SIMATUPANG: electric guitar, bass, percussion
(in the USA)
BEN MONTGOMERY: trumpet
CHELSEA DOLINAR-HIKAWA: vocals
COURTNEY DOLINAR-HIKAWA: cello
NICK RIBAUDO: bass
JAMES JOHNSTON: electric guitar
ADAM KALTENHAUSER: percussion
Influences
Our dad. He likes to play cowboy songs and the Beatles. There is no getting around the Beatles when talking about influences or Prince as a matter of fact. Philipp and I used to drive all around Chicago and sing along to Prince. Then there is Madonna, Gertrude Stein, our Mother, our sister Anja, her daughter Dora who is also quiet the chanteuse, Edith Piaf, Billy Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Lotte Lenya, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Annie Lennox. All the grand divas. Our music teachers Mr. Bell, Bart Wolgamot and Sunnie Hikawa who first got us into choral music. Stevie Wonder, we love Stevie Wonder! Silvio Rodríguez, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Eric Burdon, Sly and the Family Stone, Funkadelic, Parliament. We love funky stuff actually. Then there are our friends that influence us endlessly: Tommy Simatupang, Ben Montgomery, Markus Conrad, Lisa Birman, James Johnston, Michael Smoler, Chelsea Dolinar-Hikawa, Nick Ribaudo . . . this list is infinite, but we don't want to spill all of our insides. We will keep some secrets. Basically we are very influenceable.
Sounds Like
A brother and a sister singing to each other having too much fun and driving their parents crazy. No, crazy for Jane. Our parents love us.
Crazy for Jane is about Jane, about being crazy for Jane, about siblings and the protagonist of their imagination whom they have sworn to travel the world to serenade. Josepha and her brother Philipp grew up in Frankfurt and Chicago, and are currently based in Berlin where the gloomy city of Brecht and historical upheaval inspires their songs. Their music is a desperate serenade underneath your window. It is pop and folk and sometimes a little jazz. Their songs are fun and poetic and their harmonies unusual and at times dissonant. Their debut album "Desperate Serenade" was released in June 2006. And their second album "Watermelon Cloud", which they recorded in Chicago with dear friends came out in July of 2007. Currently they are working on a third album called "Crazy Jane meets the family"
Please support them by checking out Desperate Serenade at Olive Juice Music, Bicycle Records, CDbaby or for download in iTunes! Of course, you can also come get your Jane at shows.
The two have also collaborated with other Berlin artists. You can hear them on Tommy Simatupang's new album blame it on your monkey. And the lovely Sibsi just released a CD where Philipp and Josepha got to be Silhouettes. Check out Sibsi & the Silhouettes "Party is War" (availabe through Olive Juice Music)
hey josepha sound great! Hallo phil!welcome back.... I'll be far away tomorrow though...I also play in a festival....but I wish you lots of fun! hope to see u soon! ;) Cat
Hallo Ihr zwei... ich hoffe es geht euch gut und das Jahr hat gut für euch angefangen... der Song The Ship.. ist super..;)) liebe Grüße aus Berlin wo auch immer ihr grad seid...
Listen to hollowearthradio. com this evening to catch our interview with Susie Asado last spring and hear her lovely songs!! 9pm pacific..and just in case you're busy tonight..it will re-air tomorrow (friday) 4pm-6pm.
I'm listening to Watermelon Boats right now, for the first time in a little while. It's a such a gem! I saw you too beautiful people in a living room in Bellingham, WA a bit over a year ago. I hope everything is lovely in your lives. :)
come to see me with ghost mice (bloomington/indiana & gainesville/florida: 25. of sept.: 16h @ fischladen & 21h @ schokoladen. the best DIY band on earth. bis dann , gerd dembowski
Hey, i had such a great evening at your conzert!! Thank you so much, and I enjoy the music you gave to be!! On my way home i got so lost, almost 2 hours i was riding my bike with no orientation. these herbs were killing me. lol I hope i see you both soon, maybe in berlin...
and enjoy your Holidays Im off until September so see you on September 4th with Luke Leighfield (UK) + Björn Kleinhenz (Swe) the start of something sweet this fall-I promise, you wont get enough! or Ill see you on a mallorcan beach the next days, yes thats me the brown one finally having time to read a book!..heart Mx VIVA SCHOKOLADEN!!!
