J.Viewz
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J.Viewz is the multi-genre electronica
project of the Brooklyn-based Producer & Remixer Jonathan Dagan
. Jonathan often collaborates with various musicians & vocalists under this alias.
, Sneaker Pimps
, Mike Oldfield
, Paul Oakenfold
and Massive Attack). This release followed with many licensing requests from labels based in Germany, UK, Greece, Sweden, Holland, India, Australia, Taiwan, Israel, Russia and USA.
These compilations featured acts like Moloko
, Air, Erykah Badu
, Mylo and Jill Scott to name a few.
In April 2005 the debut album of J.Viewz titled Muse Breaks has been released worldwide by Deeplay Music (Sweden).
Just before its release, popular psytrance duo Infected Mushroom
released a remix of "Muse Breaks" on their album IM the Supervisor
. This album sold close to 90,000 copies and made the remix a dancefloor hit.
In November 2005 J.Viewz was chosen to produce an official remix to Nina Simone
. Jonathan chose to remix "See line Woman" and the result got signed for the jazz remixes series "Rewound & Reworked". Another collaboration appears on the album "Breathing Under Water" by Anoushka Shankar
& Karsh Kale
. The Duo invited Noa Lembersky, the vocalist of J.Viewz, to sing on their album. The result is the single "Burn", which opens the album and followed by tracks with Sting, Norah Jones
and Ravi Shankar
.
In April 2006 The single "Your Country" won the 3rd place in the International Song Writing Competition under the Dance/Electronica category. According to the New-York Times, ISC is "The songwriting competition to take note of". The single had also entered numerous charts, including DJ Mag's hype chart, Ministry of Sound's radio chart and DMC UPDATE Chart. The single received excellent reviews in the press, and was played by international radio station
s like Kiss 100FM, Ministry of Sound radio and BBC Radio 1.
In March 2008 J.Viewz released an EP called "The Besides". The EP is an innovative collection that includes a number of original tracks, a collaboration with the Three-time Grammy award
winning master drummer Glen Velez
, a cover to Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal", the J.Viewz remix to Nina Simone, and a special live version of "Under the Sun" which was featured in the debut album.
In January 2009 J.Viewz released 5 new remixes of "Smooth Criminal" in a limited edition single. The release featured remixes by Bugz in the Attic
, S.T.Louder and Chris Simmonds.
In February 2009, "Smooth Criminal" entered the A-list of the famous "Jazz FM" UK. On this month J.Viewz had also released a music video of "Smooth Criminal" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uljuZ7gx1i8. The video entered the charts of the Israeli TV music channel "24".
As of 2009, J.Viewz is based in Brooklyn, New York. The project is now touring in the US in a full band setup. The band has performed in New York City, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. The highlight of the US tour was a successful show at the famous Blue Note club in Manhattan, NYC.
The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
.
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
project of the Brooklyn-based Producer & Remixer Jonathan Dagan
Jonathan Dagan
Jonathan Dagan is a contemporary musician and the co-founder of Violet Vision, along with Shay Raviv, and founder of J.Viewz.- Albums :* J.Viewz - Muse Breaks * Violet Vision - Unfold...
. Jonathan often collaborates with various musicians & vocalists under this alias.
Early Releases
The first J.Viewz track was released on the "Chillout sessions 2" compilation by Blanco y Negro Music of Spain (alongside Sinéad O'ConnorSinéad O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....
, Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps
Sneaker Pimps were a British trip-hop band formed in Hartlepool, England in 1994. They are best known for their first album Becoming X and particularly the singles "6 Underground", "Spin Spin Sugar", and "Tesko Suicide" from the same album...
, Mike Oldfield
Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...
, Paul Oakenfold
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...
and Massive Attack). This release followed with many licensing requests from labels based in Germany, UK, Greece, Sweden, Holland, India, Australia, Taiwan, Israel, Russia and USA.
These compilations featured acts like Moloko
Moloko
Moloko were an Anglo-Irish electronic/pop duo consisting of Róisín Murphy from Wicklow, Ireland and Mark Brydon, from Sunderland, England.- Origin of band name :...
, Air, Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu
Erica Abi Wright , better known by her stage name Erykah Badu , is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Her work includes elements from R&B, hip hop and jazz. She is best known for her role in the rise of the neo soul sub-genre, and for her eccentric, cerebral musical...
, Mylo and Jill Scott to name a few.
In April 2005 the debut album of J.Viewz titled Muse Breaks has been released worldwide by Deeplay Music (Sweden).
Just before its release, popular psytrance duo Infected Mushroom
Infected Mushroom
Infected Mushroom is an Israeli psychedelic trance DJ act and electronic group originally formed in late 1997 as a duo by producers Erez Eisen and Amit Duvdevani in Haifa...
released a remix of "Muse Breaks" on their album IM the Supervisor
IM the Supervisor
IM the Supervisor is the fifth studio album by Israeli psychedelic trance duo Infected Mushroom. Released by BNE in 2004, it contains ten tracks, including their song "Cities of the Future"....
. This album sold close to 90,000 copies and made the remix a dancefloor hit.
In November 2005 J.Viewz was chosen to produce an official remix to Nina Simone
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...
. Jonathan chose to remix "See line Woman" and the result got signed for the jazz remixes series "Rewound & Reworked". Another collaboration appears on the album "Breathing Under Water" by Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar is a British Indian sitar player and composer who lives between the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar...
& Karsh Kale
Karsh Kale
Karsh Kale is an Indian American musician, producer and composer, and is considered one of the pioneering figures in defining the Asian Underground genre by mixing disparate genres of music such as Indian classical and folk with electronica, rock, pop and ambient music...
. The Duo invited Noa Lembersky, the vocalist of J.Viewz, to sing on their album. The result is the single "Burn", which opens the album and followed by tracks with Sting, Norah Jones
Norah Jones
Norah Jones is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actress.In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies...
and Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
.
In April 2006 The single "Your Country" won the 3rd place in the International Song Writing Competition under the Dance/Electronica category. According to the New-York Times, ISC is "The songwriting competition to take note of". The single had also entered numerous charts, including DJ Mag's hype chart, Ministry of Sound's radio chart and DMC UPDATE Chart. The single received excellent reviews in the press, and was played by international radio station
Radio station
Radio broadcasting is a one-way wireless transmission over radio waves intended to reach a wide audience. Stations can be linked in radio networks to broadcast a common radio format, either in broadcast syndication or simulcast or both...
s like Kiss 100FM, Ministry of Sound radio and BBC Radio 1.
In March 2008 J.Viewz released an EP called "The Besides". The EP is an innovative collection that includes a number of original tracks, a collaboration with the Three-time Grammy award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
winning master drummer Glen Velez
Glen Velez
Glen Velez is an American percussionist, vocalist, and composer, specializing in frame drums from around the world. He is largely responsible for the increasing popularity of frame drums in the United States and around the world....
, a cover to Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal", the J.Viewz remix to Nina Simone, and a special live version of "Under the Sun" which was featured in the debut album.
In January 2009 J.Viewz released 5 new remixes of "Smooth Criminal" in a limited edition single. The release featured remixes by Bugz in the Attic
Bugz in the Attic
Bugz in the Attic is a collective of DJs and producers based in West London, who are prominent in broken beat. The collective includes Orin Walters , Paul Dolby , Kaidi Tatham, Daz-I-Kue, Alex Phountzi , Cliff Scott, Mark Force, Matt Lord, and Mikey Stirton. The group also has a label, BitaSweet...
, S.T.Louder and Chris Simmonds.
In February 2009, "Smooth Criminal" entered the A-list of the famous "Jazz FM" UK. On this month J.Viewz had also released a music video of "Smooth Criminal" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uljuZ7gx1i8. The video entered the charts of the Israeli TV music channel "24".
As of 2009, J.Viewz is based in Brooklyn, New York. The project is now touring in the US in a full band setup. The band has performed in New York City, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago. The highlight of the US tour was a successful show at the famous Blue Note club in Manhattan, NYC.
Live band members
The Live act performs with the following line-up:- Noa Lembersky - Vocals
- Alon Leventon/Yakir BT - Piano & Keyboards
- Tal Ronen/Eran Asias/Dan Pugach/Yoni Halevy - Drums
- Urijah - Trumpet, Guitars, Vocals
- Jonathan Dagan - Programming, turntables, guitars
Remixes
- Moby - The Day (J.Viewz Remix)
- Nina Simone - Seeline Woman (J.Viewz Remix)
- Infected Mushroom & Jonathan Davis - Smashing the Opponent (J.Viewz Remix)
- Depeche Mode - Peace (J.Viewz Remix)
- Yasmin Levy - Naci en Alamo (J.Viewz Remix)
- Bluetech - Prayers for Rain (J.Viewz Remix)
- Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
- Pink Floyd - On the run (J.Viewz Remix)
rivers and homes. / Work In Progress
The second J.Viewz full-length 'rivers and homes.' originated as an idea Dagan dubbed "Work In Progress" that he began developing in the Spring of 2010. The plan was to make an album available for pre-order, and then record and release tracks gradually over the course of a year to fans that subscribed to the process. From early on the quality of J.Viewz output drew subscribers in, and allowed the project to flourish and be financed through pre-orders of the future album. Each song was recorded and released in the same weather, mindset, and period-in-life in which it had been conceived, giving fans an intimate real time look at the artistic evolution of the album. Once completed Dagan distributed the finished album in physical form to his subscribers, and is just now making it available to the general public.The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album. It is presented to the art director of the winning album, not to the performer, except if the performer is also the art director....
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