The artist
Jan Lich, born in 1973, was interested in music from a young age - especially electronic music. It was in the early 1980s when he first heard the track “Oxygene IV” by French synthesizer pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre on the radio. Fascinated by the imaginative power of these synthetic sounds, he began to recreate what he called "factory music" on his parents' home organ.
Although he took home organ lessons in the mid-1980s, he never got used to sheet music - he just experimented and played by ear. In 1989 he supplemented his new organ (Eminent P300) with the analogue Roland synthesizer Alpha Juno 1. Using two cassette decks and a disco mixer by the ping-pong method, he created the first home recording projects on tape, inspired by albums by Tangerine Dream, Kitaro, Jean Michel Jarre and Pink Floyd.
In the 1990s, during his training as a communications electronics technician, he added more instruments and devices and the first computer (a Commodore 64) found its way into the small studio. Since 1998, Jan Lich has lived as a member of a protestand monastery as Brother Johannes. In addition to the albums, he has also composed music for the theatre play “Franziskus” and several multimedia projects for the community.
By creating "Traumwandler-Music-Projekt" he wants to pursue the original fascination - the power of imagination of music - in concrete terms.