Эвен Йохансен родился 7 июня 1970 года в городе Берген, Норвегия. Долгое время жил в шотландском городе Локерби, где и записал свой альбом On Your Side.
Эвен воспитывался в музыкальной семье: его старшие братья играли в разных музыкальных коллективах, а отец выступал в качестве джазового музыканта. С детства научившись играть на гитаре, Йохансен выступал с группами Libido и Chocolate Overdose в качестве солиста и автора песен.
Во время работы с группой Libido музыкант написал песню, которая по стилистике звучания не подходила коллективу.К весне 2001 года Йохансен объединил такие песни в единый альбом, получивший название Quiet & Still, который он выпустил под псевдонимом Magnet (везде, кроме США). Второй альбом On Your Side, записанный в июне 2003 и также выпущенный под псевдонимом, получил высокую оценку критиков, однако третий альбом The Tourniquet, записанный в мае 2005 был встречен хуже. В 2005 году музыкант также поучаствовал в записи саунтрека к филму "Мистер и миссис Смит", в 2006 четыре песни музыканта прозвучали в игре Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. Четвертый альбом выпущен в 2007 году под названием The Simple Life, но музыкант обещает выпустить новый материал в 2009 году.
ДИСКОГРАФИЯ
Альбомы
Quiet & Still
October 10, 2000 – Norway
May 15, 2001 – US (под настоящим именем в США)
On Your Side
June 23, 2003 – Norway
July 7, 2003 – UK
September 28, 2004 – US
The Tourniquet
May 30, 2005 – Norway
August 22, 2005 – UK
February 14, 2006 – US
The Simple Life
March 26, 2007 – Norway
September 18, 2007 – US
March 24, 2008 – UK
Синглы/EP
Where Happiness Lives EP (June 3, 2002) (CD, 10")
"Where Happiness Lives"
"I'll Come Along"
"Heaviest Heart"
"Nothing Hurts Now"
Chasing Dreams EP (September 23, 2002) (CD, 10")
"Chasing Dreams"
"Little Miss More or Less"
"Home Song"
"I'll Come Along" (Psychonauts Remix)
The Day We Left Town EP (April 21, 2003) (CD)
"The Day We Left Town"
"Clean Slate"
"Dead Happy"
"The Big Black Moon"
"Last Day of Summer" single (November 24, 2003) (12")
"Last Day of Summer"
"Last Day of Summer" (Tom Middleton Cosmos Vox Remix)
"Last Day of Summer" (Tom Middleton Cosmos Deep Dub)
"Lay Lady Lay" single (March 22, 2004)
CD:
"Lay Lady Lay" (with Gemma Hayes) (Radio Edit)
"Wish Me Well"
"Last Day of Summer" (Tom Middleton Cosmos Vox Remix)
"Lay Lady Lay" (enhanced video)
7" vinyl:
"Lay Lady Lay" (with Gemma Hayes)
"Clean Slate" (The Bees Remix Edit)
Minus EP (November 29, 2004) (только Норвегия)
"Let It Snow"
"Clean Slate"
"Heaviest Heart"
"Dead Happy"
"The Big Black Moon"
"Clean Slate" (The Bees Remix)
"Hold On" (August 15, 2005)
UK double 7" set:
"Hold On"
"The Mute"
"The Pacemaker"
"Good Mourning"
US Tour EP CD:
"Hold On" (Radio Edit)
"The Mute"
"Good Mourning"
"Grinder"
"Hold On" (Metronomy Remix)
"Hold On" (Hans-Peter Lindstrøm Remix)
"Fall at Your Feet" (December 5, 2005)
CD:
"Fall at Your Feet" (Jack Joseph Puig Mix)
"This Bird Can Never Fly"
7" vinyl:
"Fall at Your Feet"
"Hold On" (Metronomy Remix)
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey Soundtrack EP (April 5, 2006)
"Be With You" (previously unreleased)
"My Darling Curse"
"The Pacemaker"
"Nothing Hurts Now"
"Lonely No More" (June 30, 2008) (только через Интернет)
"Lonely No More"
"Pennydrop"
"1997"
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There are at least 7 artists with this name:
1) Even Johansen, folk pop from Norway;
2) a band who recorded the soundtrack to the 1973 film The Wicker Man;
3) Magnet, a.k.a. Lothar Hempel, is a German electronica artist.
4) 70's rock, made 1 album 'Worldwide Attraction'.
5) Magnet [UK] is only available at the compilation 'A Bugged in Selection With Erol Alkan'.
6) Magnet [MA-USA] - made 4 allbums, the first 'Don't Be a Penguin' 1997.
7) There is one Russian group called Magnet.
1) Magnet, a.k.a Even Johansen (http://www.evenmagnet.net), hails from Askøy, Norway. His warm, melancholic songwriting draws on a range of influences from folk to country and the atmospheric electronica of Air. He has released four albums - Quiet and Still, On Your Side, The Tourniquet and The Simple Life - but is probably best known for his rendition of Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay (with Gemma Hayes as guest vocalist), featured on the soundtrack of the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Before going solo, Even was the lead guitarist of Norwegian indie rock band Chocolate Overdose (for the albums Everybody Likes Chocolate and Sugar Baby), and later, the lead singer of Norwegian indie rock band Libido, releasing one album, Killing Some Dead Time.
According to him, his first solo album, Quiet and Still, was a collection of songs written during the Libido period, deemed unfitting for the band.
He started using the alias Magnet before releasing his second album, On Your Side, in 2003.
In 2006, he contributed a new track, Be With You, (and three old ones, namely My Darling Curse, The Pacemaker, and Nothing Hurts Now) on an extended play CD for the game Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.
Even's fifth and latest album, Ferrofluid, was released in Norway on December 2, 2011 through iTunes and other retailers. The date of release in other countries remains under wraps.
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2) Magnet were a band formed for the purpose of recording the soundtrack to the 1973 film The Wicker Man. The band were assembled by musician Gary Carpenter (the film's Associate Musical Director) to perform songs composed by New York songwriter Paul Giovanni. Originally under the moniker Lodestone, later to change to "Magnet" because of a conflict with another band, the group included Peter Brewis (recorders, jew's harp, harmonica, bass guitar, etc.), Michael Cole (concertina, harmonica, bassoon), Andrew Tompkins (guitars), Ian Cutler (violin), Bernard Murray (percussion) and finally Carpenter himself (piano, recorders, fife, ocarina, nordic lyre, Etc.). Carpenter, Brewis and Cole had recently graduated from The Royal College of Music in London and Tompkins, Cutler and Murray were all members of Carpenter's band Hocket. The band also featured Giovanni on guitar and vocals for many tracks and appeared in the film in various scenes.
Their soundtrack for the film is considered by many to be a major influence on neofolk and psych folk music.
(Taken from Wikipedia)
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3. Magnet, a.k.a. Lothar Hempel, is a German electronica artist.
4. 70's rock, made 1 album 'Worldwide Attraction'.
5. Magnet [UK] is only available at the compilation 'A Bugged in Selection With Erol Alkan'.
6. Magnet [MA-USA] - made 4 allbums, the first 'Don't Be a Penguin' 1997.
7. There is one Russian group called Magnet. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.