VAMOS LÁ · Rio / Berlin · International Project Archive

Selected Albums, EPs & Singles · Bastian Lee Jones

Selected Current and Forthcoming Album Projects

Singles from Vatersprache

Forthcoming releases from the Vatersprache album.

Es wird Licht · Auf Immer · Hast du mich auch lieb?

Next Release

Chopin · Nocturne & Fantaisie-Impromptu · C-Sharp Minor

Original Compositions · Handwritten Manuscripts

Selected manuscript excerpts from original composition projects.

31 Days · Original Handwritten Manuscript Excerpt

SILENCES · Souls Fly Away · Original Handwritten Manuscript Excerpt

Classical Piano Works

Forthcoming releases & recordings

Beethoven · Sonata Pathétique
Beethoven · Sonata Op. 90
Mozart · Sonata in C Major, K. 330
Mozart · Sonata in A Major, K. 331

LIVE · Performance Archive

Selected moments from solo performance, live art, ensemble and stage movement.

INTIMACY · SOLO

Intimate Performances · Solo Piano · Voice · Livingroom Concerts

PIANO · PHYSICALITY

Solo performance · Body · Instrument · Motion

Solo performance · Movement · Risk · Control

PERFORMANCE ART · TRANSFORMATION

Live performance · Happening · One stage, three appearances.

LIVE ENERGY · MOVEMENT

Live music · Movement · Audience · Stage energy

DO YOU WANNA

Written by Bastian Lee Jones – performed by Bastian Lee Jones & Band & The Jambalayas
Video by mønchsleben

Live performance · Badehaus Berlin

The performance continued.

The curtain fell on the stage. The performance moved into the studio.

NOW

THE STUDIO IS THE PERFORMANCE

The studio is not where I prepare the performance.
The studio is the performance.

PROVENANCE

This Grotrian-Steinweg grand piano was built in 1907.

Its history reaches into the musical world of Weimar and the von Holleben family. According to Dr. von Holleben’s account, the instrument was connected to the circle surrounding Martha Remmert — pianist, Liszt pupil and founder of the Franz Liszt Society.

He also told me something I would never forget: while Remmert practised and performed, members of the family would sometimes dance on the piano.

The traces remain.

Scratches in the old shellac surface are still visible today — physical marks carried forward through more than a century of musical life.

Many years later, I was invited to play for Dr. von Holleben in his Berlin home.

I performed my song “Über’s Meer” and, at his request, Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2.

Afterwards, he told me that the piano would one day be left to me.

“You are worthy of it.”

At the time, I did not yet understand the full resonance of that moment.

Later, while continuing my own living-room concerts and live recordings, I realised that I had — without consciously intending it — carried forward something remarkably close to the old salon tradition.

That continuity became visible publicly as well. During Piano City, the story of the instrument and one of my living-room concerts attracted television coverage; the performance later appeared in cultural television formats including ttt and Kulturzeit.

Today, the piano is no museum piece.

It is played.
It is recorded.
It remains part of an active artistic life.

1907 · 2026

The performance continued.

THE TRACES REMAIN

NOW

THE ARTIST IN THE ROOM

At the grand piano, a historical instrument speaks.
At the stage piano, songs are written, recorded and performed.
Both belong to the same artistic practice.

Between grand piano and stage piano, the work moves freely between classical repertoire, songwriting, voice and recording.

Two instruments. One artistic language.

PRESENT TENSE

ON ITS OWN TERMS.

Piano, songs, recording and visual work are not separate disciplines.
They are different forms of the same artistic practice.
The work decides the form.

BASTIAN LEE JONES — ON ITS OWN TERMS.