Origin Hamina, Finland Name Janne Westerlund | Years active 1990–present Instruments Guitar, banjo | |
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Occupation(s) Musician, singer, songwriter Associated acts Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Plain Ride Role Musician · jannewesterlund.tumblr.com Music groups Circle, Pharaoh Overlord, Chainsmoker Genres Experimental rock, Krautrock, Folk music People also search for Jussi Lehtisalo, Tomi Leppanen Albums Sunrise, Paris Concert, Alotus, Meronia, Fraten | ||
Record labels Ektro Records, Bad Vugum | ||
Janne westerlund it takes a strong jesus to carry me home
Janne Westerlund (born 1973) is a Finnish musician, songwriter and visual artist known from such Finnish groups as Circle (with the band since 2001), Pharaoh Overlord, and Plain Ride. His main instrument is guitar but on his solo gigs he plays banjo as well. He sings and writes lyrics mainly in English. Westerlund's career started in the beginning of the 1990s in a small Finnish city called Hamina when he founded Sweetheart, an experimental noise rock group, with his friends. After Sweetheart, he released two albums of "organic electronica" with a trio called Chainsmoker.
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- Janne westerlund it takes a strong jesus to carry me home
- Stockholm live janne westerlund
- Chainsmoker
- Circle
- Pharaoh Overlord
- Plain Ride
- Solo career
- Sweetheart
- References
All the studio and live recordings with his past and present bands included, Westerlund has played on approximately 50 albums. In the autumn of 2012 he released his debut solo album named Oran.
In 2013 he started a collaboration with Jyrki Nissinen, a Finnish cartoonist and musician, composing a soundtrack album for his comics book, Kehittymättömät ufot ("The Undeveloped Flying Objects").
Marshland, his second solo album, is released in January 2015 on Ektro Records.
Stockholm live janne westerlund
Chainsmoker
Circle
See Circle discography
Pharaoh Overlord
See Pharaoh Overlord discography