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..............................................................................Zam
Johnson Born and grew-up in Los Angeles, California. His career as a drummer began after his high-school studies. As a studio-musician for record- TV- and Filmproductions he earns his living. Zam Johnson masters all styles of percussion, including Rock, Blues, Funk, Gospel, Motown and Jazz. In the late eighties he began to work with synthesiser. He composed music for avant-garde films and dance-theatre. Together with the painter Norton Wisdom he grounded the "SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE ART GROUP" which he toured through USA and Europe. Since 1988 he lives in Berlin and concentrates his efforts as composer. His musical engagement is suited to theatre, dance, concerts and the Avantgarde music-scene. Since 1989 as fixed member of tatoeba theatre danse grotesque as house-composer. Further he works free-lance as a drummer. As musician he was invited to perform in Europe since Ulm to Montreux for many festivals. Including other engagements, he composed the soundtrack to the film "Ju-ni hitoe or the discover of the soul", with Martin Karl-Wagner which ran in 1994 in the Berlinale. In 1994 he received an invitation and scholarship from the Goethe Institute in Tokyo to compose the music for "Rabenstein - The Collector" and to perform it live. In 1995 he founded with the Japanese Butoh-dancer Yumiko Yoshioka and the sculptor Joachim Manger the TEN PEN CHII ART FACTORY. Zam Johnson has composed for over 30 productions theatre-musik, mostly in connection with the live-realisation. He worked as a drummer with: Gino Vanelli, The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Ray Charles Singers, Red Bone, Iron Butterfly, Tom Petty, Ike Turner, Sweet Inspirations, B.J. and the bear, NBC TV-Show, Barry White Productions, Leon Ware - Motown Produzent, Greg Evegon - TV-Star, Billy Griffin - Columbia Recording Artist... In Europe recordings with: Gary Wiggins, Hanno Rinne, Uli Bartel, Florian Schneider, Black Heritage, Stan Red Fox, Bob Lenox, Lenox and Lenox, Mack Goldsbury, Wayne Martin, Stoppok... Festivals: Jazzfestival Ulm, Leverkusen, Freiburg, Bielefeld, Bremen, Kempten, Brussel, Montreux, Genoa, Rockfestival in Lubeck, Bluesfestival in Osnabruck, Minden, Hannover, Rugen... on Tour with the Golden Gospel Pearls in Germany and Europe... As Lecturer: In Italy, Genoa, with Ben Godson, Buster Williams, Horace Parlay and mutt more... ........................................................................................contact |
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