My name is JAN PETERSEN and I am the guitar player of SYLVAN. I work as composer, producer and teacher for electric guitar. Come and join my new website www.janpetersen.net
2007 I produced the progressive rock CD "The Ray of Spring" together with Singer Frank Wollenburg. This studio project is called BEYOND THE BLUE.
The CD "The Ray Of Spring" contains 10 songs that are telling the story of a couple whose love is put to a test. The music is made for people who love the guitar with a high approach of playing an instrument. Of course, you can listen to it while doing the dishes or something like that. But I recommend it to you much more like a listening experience. So, if you listen to it, take some time before you put the cd in your player. Sit back in a comfortably way and maybe put on your headphones. Close your eyes, listen to the music loud and become aware of all the details in the music, try to fall into the music!
To get an imagination what my music as a solo artist is about you are invited to listen to the songs above.
The second song is called "Denkmaschine". I made it last year in August.
The third one is called "love flows" because there have been a lot of intense feelings that flew through my body during the writing process. The titel is not very unique but it fitted perfectly to my state of mind in that period. I played all the stuff by myself, including drums and bass. There is a lot of slide guitar in it, too!
The 4th tune is an instrumental one which - in a certain way - sums up my solo works over the past 21 years. It..s called "Jemology". I think it is quite simple, with a 2 chord progression in the main part and just a few changes in the drum&bass parts. The idea behind that was to write a tribute to a guitarist who I admire since his days with Whitesnake and his specific type of electric guitars he developed. My favourite ones though I..ve never owned one yet! The guitars are called "Jem". This guitar has been introduced in the mid 80..s by this crazy guitar lunatic from Beverly Hills, responsible for impossible guitar parts in Frank Zappa..s Band at the age of 18 and later on. The song "Jemology" was produced at "Pfeffersackstudios", my homerecording studio here in Hamburg, where I like to live a lot. I use to produce my recordings here but also do I foreign jobs for other producers mainly for Jens Lück! For the song "Jemology" for example I used an Ibanez electric guitar built and achieved in 1992, a whammy foot pedal (which makes the pitch sounds in the melody) and my 12 string acoustic guitar on which I wrote the chord progression when I got it new. I recorded the electric guitar with a little red digital preamp and arranged the drums, the bass and the keyboards on my computer. Hope, you like it!
Thank you very much for your interest! I Hope to see you at the next SYLVAN Show! All the best - Jan
Happy holidays Jan. Working on the recordings from your performance at CalProg I have gained a much greater appreciation for what a talented guitar player you are. I hope there's an opportunity to work together again some time in the future. Give my regards to the rest of the band when you see them.
Thanks Jan! It's an honor to have you as one of our myspace friends! It was an honor to open the concert for you Guys! Hope we meet on one stage again!!
hi jan, thanks a lot for the add! :-) cool tunes! !watch out for new album "9"! shit, warum schreib ich eigentlich englisch????? lol love and peace yogi
thx for your request!!!bin echt angetan von deiner musik.du beherrscht ja mitlerweile das holzstück mit den komischen 6 drähten.echt super!!! grüsse auch an deinen kollegen JAN (das andere halbe quartet...)
und noch viel glück....vllt trifft man sich mal (würde mich freuen...)
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