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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 SYNTH/CHILLWAVE to uplifting prog TRANCE, crossing HOUSE and melodic TECHNO grooves.
The project was first formed in 1995 with Jean-Michel Blanchet together, and Jaia became quickly one of the main GOA TRANCE band in the 90ies, after switching in a more progressive direction.
Jaia released 4 albums and several 12 inches too, as well as numerous tracks on various labels compilations, such as Iboga, Utlimae, Perfecto, Flying Rhino, Digital Structures, Tribal Vision, Dragonfly, or JOOF.
Among official remixes are remixes for the French signer Mylène Farmer together with Blue Planet Corporation, the classic " Chase" of Giorgio Moroder, 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 …
Founder member of Pumpz Recordings house label too, and has also side projects like Olowex , Even11, Kama & Mac Gregor, or Altitudes.
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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