••• mushroom 2005-06 - Mushroom online

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Vor acht Jahren lief
mir ein wunderbares
Album eines mir bis
dahin unbekannten
Acts aus Frankreich
über den Weg, das für
mich mit seiner
Qualität und Energie,
mit seinen schönen
Sounds, Ideen und
Umsetzungen eine
Offenbarung war. Jaia
gehört meiner
Meinung nach zu den
allerfeinsten Psy
Trance Acts. Aber es
ist nicht eben leicht,
Jaia Releases zu finden.
Warum das so
ist, erzählt Yannis
Kamarinos hier.
Anlässlich seines
zweiten, fantastischen
Albums »Fiction« auf
Digital Structures.
Since writing for club/life style mag
»Loop« from Cologne I got a promo
copy of »Blue Energy« from French
Act Jaia in 1998. It was a great
album, I was impressed by the
energy, brilliance of sound and its
beautiful vibe. So Mat and me compiled
the wonderful track »Mai Mai«
for the second mushroom trance
compilation with Novatekk. At that
time Cross records went down; Alex
Ligowski bought the rest of Cross
stuff for Novatekk to distribute it.
After your album release nothing
happened, no further Jaia stuff,
once the »Sentences To Heaven«
track, the »Wavelenght E.P.« with
the ultra funky »Speleo Logic«.
Years later I was flashed again by
»Hypnostatique« on Flying Rhino's
The Unknown Genius
»Something For The Weekend«
compilation, since years one of my
favourite and most played tracks.
But same shit for you. The company
went down, the Rhino died. You are
a real genius of emotional music
production, Jaia is one of the best
psy acts the world has heard, but
you're no lucky guy regarding your
releases.
Why Jaia hasn't make the
career the project would have
deserved?
As you said, I'm not really lucky
regarding my releases. The first
label Cross, after ripping us off (we
never get even 1 cent from this
release and licensed tracks), died
too. After this bad experience with
music business, we were seriously
thinking to stop making music, but
fortunately there were a lot of gigs
following the »Blue Energy« release.
The feedback of the people loving
our music was huge, so that convince
us to carry on. Then Dakini decided
to re-release »Blue Energy«,
and after this second release, we
were quite reconciled with music
business. But in the same time my
partner Jean-Michel left the project
because he had not enough time
anymore for Jaia as he found a fulltime
job as sound-designer in
Arturia company developing music
softwares and plug'ins. People have
to know that living by your music is
hard, so I understood Jean-Michel's
decision.
During 2000 to 2001 I was
searching my own sound,
and it was a really difficult
period of callings into questions.
Dakini was there to support
me and I released with
them the first track I made
alone, »Le Chant Des Sirenes«.
As I was always really attracted by
the progressive sounds and groove,
I also made some proggy tracks
such as »Hypnostatique« or »The
Peter Pan Syndrome«, first released
on Flying Rhino and then on Iboga.
After this releases and some others,
my mind was putting at ease regarding
my artistic abilities for a solo
work, and by the way I decided to
work in a new album.
There are so many fantastic
projects from France like
Dado/Deedrah, Bamboo
Forest, Blue Planet Corp.,
Silicon Sound, Tikal, Altöm,
Polaris and many more. For
me it's one of the greatest
secrets of psy trance: compared
to others the French scene
is small but the music tops the
whole scene with its delicious
sounds. How do you explain
this?
So the quality of the artists is not
proportional to the size of the scene
;) But French trance scene was really
big between 95 and 98 and
during this period the big projects
like Total Eclipse, Transwave, BPC,
Spectral, etc. were born. I think