Exit North
Exit North is a musical collaboration between former Japan-drummer Steve Jansen, singer Thomas Feiner, piano player Ulf Jansson and multi-instrumentalist/engineer/producer Charlie Storm. They released the album "Book Of Romance And Dust" in 2018. All three members except Jansen are Swedish musicians, all living in Gothenburg. Background. Steve Jansen established a co-writing connection with Thomas Feiner in 2007 for his first solo album "Slope". He co-wrote the track “Sow The Salt.” For Jansens second album "Tender Extinction", he co-wrote the track "Captured." They felt they had similar motivations in music and in  2014, Jansen proposed the idea of forming a more permanent partnership and making an album together. Feiner had been co-composing some sketches and ideas with Ulf Jansson, so this was the starting point for new material and they became a three-piece. Feiner had earlier forged a friendship with Charlie Storm, who also knew Ulf Jansson, who had worked as a session pianist on some acts Storm had produced. From start to completion, the album was a four-year journey, recorded in Storms studio in Gothenburg. Feiner was a singer in the Swedish band Anywhen who re-released their  album "The Opiates" in 2008 on David Sylvians Samadhi Sound label. Jansen said to John Earls February 2021: ""Exit North are working on new songs for our second album. I would have been spending time in Sweden over recent months to significantly move things forward, but for obvious reasons that hasn’t been possible. As we co-compose everything, we allow the material to lead us. Our first album, Book Of Romance And Dust, was quite a classic singer-songwriter collection overall, except with a focus on musical passages to carry the listener on a bit of a journey. We  feel this is what we achieve well together, and I’m sure we’ll be following on a similar path.""