William Johansson

Infobox Musical artist
Name = William Johansson


Img_capt = William Johansson in 2008
Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Peder William Christopher Johansson
Alias =
Born = birth date and age|1988|1|21
Died =
Origin = Borlänge, Dalarna, Sweden
Instrument = Synthesizer
Vocals
Piano
Genre = Synth, Synthpop, Minimal, Ambient, Electropop
Occupation = Artist
Actor
Scriptwriter
Years_active = 1994-present
Label =
Associated_acts = Sywnthkrawft "(2005-2007)"
Borlange All-Stars "(2004-2006)"
DJ WeeJay "(2002-2005)"
Super Synth Farmacia "(1998-2002, 2005)"
URL =
Current_members =
Past_members =

William Johansson (born January 21 1988) is a Swedish artist & composer. He mostly creates music in the minimalist & synth genre.

Music career

He started out as a solo pianist in 1994 (only 6 years old) playing at different events and later he started to take piano lessons. Later he became a part of Super Synth Farmacia, a group which made songs on computers and toy keyboards, later in 2002 they disbanded. He was also a member in a music collective called Borlange All-Stars. In 2006 Borlange All-Stars disbanded because they couldn't find anything more to express through their music. Also William's interest in his alter ego, DJ WeeJay, came to an end in 2005 so he retired the character. In 2008 he released his new soloalbum called "Reality After Midnight", after working with it for almost 1 year.

ywnthkrawft

In 2005 Willam decided to create the band Sywnthkrawft together with Gustav Jacobsson, Viktor Jacobsson and Daniel Thyberg (who later left the group). Between 2005 and 2007, they released three albums and three singles.

Although their inital sound was ambient inspired, Sywnthkrawft soon switched to a more instrumental synthpop influenced sound. They gained some success with the single, "The Photographer's Exceptional Pictures for Body and Mind". On 8 March 2007, it debuted on #1 on the Swedish chart Dalatoppen and held its position for 7 weeks. Their last album, "Goodbye, Spaceblade (Re-recorded)", were released only weeks before they embarked on a hiatus even though a new album (SK3 - The Space Musical) were in production and planned for a 2008 release.

While never formally breaking up, after "Goodbye, Spaceblade (Re-recorded)", William decided to concentrate on his solo project. As time went by William increasingly dismissed the possibility of reforming the band, since the three remaining members don't talk with each other any more. [cite news
url = http://www.dalademokraten.se/Noje/Nojesnyheter/56461
title = This years scriptwriter'
accessdate = 2008-04-15
publisher = Dalademokraten
date = 2007-04-15]

Acting career

Recently he was reported to be the scriptwriter and director for the theatre Dalaspexet (see Spex (theatre))", [cite news
url = http://dalaspexet.blogspot.com/2007/11/synopsistvlingen-avgjord.html
title = Scriptwriter revealed'
accessdate = 2007-10-07
publisher = Dalaspexet
date = 2007-10-07] His first musical/play will be called ("69: The Big Swedish Spaceproject - A real metamorphosis") and revolve around the moon landing, made in 1969. [cite news
url = http://www.dalademokraten.se/Noje/Nojesnyheter/56461
title = This years scriptwriter'
accessdate = 2008-04-15
publisher = Dalademokraten
date = 2007-04-15] . This play will feature Hans Villius as narrator.

During the autumn of 2007 he were involved with the Swedish musical Sabinas Fall. In 2008 he became a producer for the movie: The 1 Second Film. [cite news
url = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUWcfQ-7lmw
title = William Johansson - The 1 Second Film Ad'
accessdate = 2008-03-30
publisher =
date = 2008-03-30] .

Discography

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Album	Year	Genre
La Sélection de William Johansson	1997
Post Inferno Soundtrack	2005	Synth-Minimal
Reincarnation	2006	Synth-Minimal
Contempt of Death	2006	Synth-Minimal
The Eternal Struggle	2006	Ambient/New Age
Hugsjón	2007	Ambient
Reality After Midnight	2008	Synth/Synthpop
Singles	Year	Genre
Millennium	2005	Synth
Freakshow	2005	Synth
Andromeda's Christmas Eve	2005
Post Inferno	2006	Synth-Minimal
Inscrutable Inhumation of the Apocalypse	2006	Synth-Minimal
The Path of Schweden	2006
060606	2006	Minimal
Party as if you were Lindsay Lohan	2008	Electropop
EP	Year	Genre
4 Pianokompositioner	1995
Stehplatz.81	2005	Synth

Bibliography

Hejdå, Spaceblade (2007)

Notes

External links

* [http://www.williamjohansson.net Official William Johansson website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/williamjohansson Myspace page]