Jane Maximova, songwriter and producer, is a representative of Russian lounge music. Having started her musical career as a vocal performer in a rock group and engaged (concurrently with this) in cooperation with a German production publishing company, Jane came to making full-fledged solo project in 2009.
Her dedicated searches for her own tonality brought Jane to winning, in 2010, her Chart’s Dozen musical prize for original interpretation of a folk song. Soon afterwards, Pitch Music Publishing released her debut album, Wabi Sabi.
Her travels in the realm of sound brought Jane to discovery of the theme of Wise Orient known for its profound emotionality. The sense of “elusive” beauty of all things and natural phenomena and of their spontaneity and impermanence is underlying the album’s title, Wabi Sabi, a Japanese esthetic notion meaning the ability of contemplative and serene perception of reality.
“This was an attempt to convey, by way of music, my childhood experiences and reminiscences,” Jane says, “a smooth cherry tree branch I was of fond of sitting on, when I was a little girl, a foot path treated by somebody in the wood, the face of an individual sitting across or a sprout struggling its way through asphalt pavement. Emotional trace left by certain things and phenomena is, sometimes, comparable with “after-taste” produced by a book read. This album contains all impressions most important for me that are difficult to describe by words, but that (not improbably) have been openers of the gates for me into the boundless language of music”.
After Wabi Sabi was released, Jane received an offer for cooperation from Roland Voss, founder of the well-known German project, Lemongrass. Her voice and lyrics are glorying their joint albums, Papillon, Gloriette, A Dream Within A Dream.
New singles, whether of her sole authorship or made jointly with somebody else, recorded in a wide range of styles, fully retain Jane’s warm and serene melodics earlier laid down as the basic tonality for Wabi Sabi.