Exit North | |
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| Origin | Gothenburg, Sweden, London, England |
| Genres | Art rock, ambient pop, chamber pop |
| Years active | 2014–present |
| Members | Steve Jansen Charlie Storm Ulf Jansson Thomas Feiner |
| Website | www |
Exit North is a musical collaboration between former Japan-drummer Steve Jansen, singer Thomas Feiner, piano player Ulf Jansson and multi-instrumentalist/engineer/producer Charlie Storm.
They released their first album Book of Romance and Dust in 2018. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
Apart from Jansen, the other three members are Swedish musicians, from Gothenburg.
Steve Jansen established a co-writing connection with Thomas Feiner in 2007 for his first solo album "Slope". He co-wrote the track "Sow The Salt." For Jansen's second album "Tender Extinction", he co-wrote the track "Captured." [13]
They felt they had similar motivations in music and in 2014, Jansen proposed the idea of forming a more permanent partnership and making an album together. Feiner had been co-composing some sketches and ideas with Ulf Jansson, so this was the starting point for new material and they became a three-piece. Feiner had earlier forged a friendship with Charlie Storm, who also knew Ulf Jansson, who had worked as a session pianist on some acts Storm had produced.
From start to completion, the album was a four-year journey, recorded in Storm's studio in Gothenburg.
Feiner was a singer in the Swedish band Anywhen who re-released their album "The Opiates" in 2008 on David Sylvians Samadhi Sound label. [14]
Jansen said to John Earls February 2021: "Exit North are working on new songs for our second album. I would have been spending time in Sweden over recent months to significantly move things forward, but for obvious reasons that hasn't been possible. As we co-compose everything, we allow the material to lead us. Our first album, Book Of Romance And Dust, was quite a classic singer-songwriter collection overall, except with a focus on musical passages to carry the listener on a bit of a journey. We feel this is what we achieve well together, and I'm sure we'll be following on a similar path." [15] Exit North released their second album "Anyway, Still" in April 2023. [16]