Jaia is the progressive & downtempo crossover project of the French producer Yannis Kamarinos. Jaia music is beyond formatted sounds & bpms, and goes from atmospheric cinematic ambient and midtempo chill//synthwave beats to prog trance, crossing house and melodic techno.

The project was initialy formed in 1995 by Yannis Kamarinos and Jean-Michel Blanchet and a this tilme the sound of Jaia was goa trance ,tribal, and ambient oriented. They released their first tracks on Fairway Records and on various goa and ambient labels. In 2000 Jean-Michel left the band to work for Arturia. Since then Yannis drives alone Jaia ship, and left strict goa trance to open his music to many different styles.
Jaia released 4 albums: Blue Energy (Cross / Nova Tekk - 1998), Blue Synergy (Dakini / Yellow Feather - 2000) , Fiction (Digital Structures – 2005) , Reworks (Tribal Vision – 2009).
He released several EPs and 12 inches too, as well as numerous tracks on various l compilations, on labels such as Iboga , Perfecto , Utlimae, Liquid Sound Design, or JOOF.
Among official remixes are 2 tracks of the French signer Mylène Farmer (“C’est une Belle Journée " and "Pardonne-Moi " released on Polydor / Universal) together with avec Blue Planet Corporation, the classic " Chase" of Giorgio Moroder (2 remixes on TribalVision / EMI), the hit The Miky May of Aurora Borealis, several Vibrapshere tracks, etc …


 

Since 1997 Jaia has been performing live in festivals, clubs, and art galleries in all Europe, Japan, Israel, Russia, India, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and in the USA.
Clubs and venues who invited Jaia to perform are for example Brixton Academy in London, Cube 326 in Tokyo, Rohstofflager in Zurich, Butan in Wuppertal, ADS in Berlin, The Block in Tel Aviv , Le Batofar in Paris , Cross in Prague, Sirocco in New Delhi, or Glaz Gallery in Moscow. Jaia played and regularly plays in festivals and big gatherings such as Boom Festival (Portugal), Ozora Festival (Hungary), Universo Paralello (Brazil), Shambhala Music Festival (Canada), Tree of Life Festival (Trukey), VooV (Germany), Sonica Festival (Italy), Go Madras 3D Festival (India), Shankra Festival (Switzerland) etc …
 

Yannis is a founder member of Pumpz Recordings house label too, and has also side projects like Olowex with Holeg Spies , Even11 with Siilicon Sound , Kama & Mac Gregor, or Altitudes with Blue Pllanet Coproraton and Silicon Sound.


In the same time, his work with Extreme Music (Sony ATV Music Publishing) as a composer and sound designer get him to release the official music TV commercial of AT&T in 2008.
Since then, he worked on film soundtracks, including the 2 US thrillers Apartment 407/ Selling Isobel (2017) and Hex. (2019) with Holeg Spies.

 
 

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