I’ll appear tomorrow around 9 pm as a background musician for Rosenstolz. They will perform the song Auch Im Regen.

I was background guitarist for the band Rosenstolz during a TV show last week-end in Mannheim. The show is a Music-award ceremony called “Die goldene Stimmgabel” and will be broadcast on ZDF next Sunday’s evening. That was a lot of fun and good opportunity to have a close look at a very “interesting” world!

Great news everyone! A project I’ve submitted to the german Federal
Cultural Foundation has been accepted and sponsored. The frame is 100.000 EURO JOB, a project which consists in supporting a few young artists to make projects that express their vision of work.

The piece is called 20 Minutes – The Podcast Opera (in German 20 Minuten – Die Podcast Oper). It’s an opera that will be available online as a podcast. The project is very ambitious: there will be a webpage, a video made by another youg artist – Mathieu Dagorn (www.mathieu.dagorn.com) – for live perfomances and the premiere will take place in December 2006 in Zagreus, a great gallery in Berlin.

Here’s an extract of a text I’ve written about the project:

2O minutes! That’s the name of a magazine handed out every morning in London, Paris or Stockholm underground stations. Why 20 Minutes? Because it’s the average free time the average worker has during an average morning journey to work. In today’s world, that’s often the only time of the day when one can have a little time by oneself.

My project is a Podcast Opera about this situation. It’s avant-garde piece of music taking place in a wagon where people take the most of this precious idle time to think about their lives. And it will lasts 20 minutes so one can just upload it on their Mp3 player and listen to it en route, hence the name Podcast Opera (a podcast is a show that’s not broadcasted but available to download – for further informations, see here).

On stage, the opera can be either performed by musicians or just played trough speakers, as Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry or even Karlheinz Stockhausen started to do in the 1950’s, when they were inventing Electronic Music. […]

One of the purposes of this project is to find a path between the workers and modern art.

© 2006 justin lepany

I’m back in Berlin with the last remixes of the songs I’ve composed between November 2004 and now: George’s Curry, Senghennydd Blues, Viva Gaya and Back to the Core have been thus remixed. Twelve tracks should soon be released as a self-produced unofficial album. For me, it’s the end of an era and I’ve got the the strong feeling it’s time to move on to a new level. Concerning my career, there are some cool stuffs going on. Concerning my music, I want to go to the next step and produce better and bigger. I’ll let you know very soon.

I’m very glad to see that more than 1000 people have visited my website and heard my music.

The new track is called Disco NWA (No Woman’s Allowed). Don’t take the title seriously but have a couple of listen since this tune is hot. The rarity is called Dual Hell. It was recorded in November 2004 in Cardiff and is therefore to be found at the bottom of the My Music page since it’s the oldest songs here.

My last song and one of my first songs, I couldn’t do better now to thank all the people who have interest in my music. Thank you all and keep coming.

After 2 months where I couldn’t get to finish a composition, this tune is a great relief since it was composed, recorded and mixed in two days and contains a lot of ideas I wanted to materialize. I’m proud of it and wish you’ll like it too.

Beside that, a new version of Downtown Breakdown is available where the drums has a more vintage 70’s sound. That’s the official version for now but the old version can still be listened to.

Here it is at last. It’s a place where you can learn more about Justin Lepany as a composer. At the moment, you can listen to two pieces and read an essay in english about Spectral Music. All those things belongs to my university years but there should be fresh things soon since I’ve never lost my interest in composing in a more perspective d’avant garde.

It is time to introduce Leyan, a project I’m part of since March. It’s a pop-rock project founded by the film soundtrack composer and producer Jürgen Ecke and a singer, Leyan. The casting attracted a lot of musicians and I’m proud to be in. The other selected musicians are great as well. I’ll let you know how it goes but you can already visit the official website www.leyanmusic.com

Hello everybody. It's been a month since I've updated this site. I have been busy with my projects and just had no new songs to propose. Ì still have no new material but am workink on five songs at the same time that should be really cool.

Apart of that, I've made remixes: Nosferatu, Back To The Core, Tempus Ex Machina, George's Curry and Keeping It Real. No big deal, just a few fixes here and there.

A few weeks ago, I did a few photo sessions for Oliver Schümers, a photographer based in Hannover. The pictures are not ready yet but he allowed me to publish a couple of them. They are in the pictures section. Thanks to him, and to Mathieu Dagorn as well for editing them.