Johannes Is Zijn Naam creates Dutch-language dream pop as a slightly eccentric crooner who sings and dances amidst drum machines and synths. In his universe, somewhere between David Lynch and Tien Om Te Zien, a unique blend of music, performance, atmosphere, and lyrics unfolds.
Following his debut, Johannes sends a message from the future: together with fellow cosmonaut Dijf Sanders, he opens a new chapter. With Contact, his second album, the lonely character cautiously takes a step outside his cocoon. The door opens a crack, toward the outside world, toward… contact. With people, with love, with everything that lies hidden in the hollows of our busy lives. Light breaks into the darkness, in high-contrast black and white.
Anyone who knows Johannes Is Zijn Naam (or perhaps saw him with “Johnny Will Be King,” somewhere in the vein of Spinvis) knows that everything comes together live. On the theater stage, Johannes lets himself go even more: an electric, dark playfulness in which image, word, and music merge into a compelling experience. Let yourself be carried away into his universe and make… contact.
