About Moritz
The Hamburg-born actor and filmmaker is used to being in front of the camera. He not only lives out his creative life as part of series like the Netflix production DARK or the BBC series SAS: ROGUE HEROES, but since 2018 also as the head of his own band: Moritz Jahn.
Instead of embodying someone else's script, Moritz now writes his own story and gives his life a soundtrack. With his guitar in his luggage, he takes a piece of home to every place and comes back with new song sketches. Somewhere between folk and indie pop he processes longing, the mood of departure and the striving for a good life in his music and does not shy away from showing vulnerability. His multi-arranged pieces not only evoke great feelings, but also give us the opportunity to transfer our own stories to the melodic template, while his music videos resemble an artistic installation.
What's new?
‘This is going to be a bomb later.’ What a line to open an album with! It has both an epic and prophetic quality. It precisely describes what will happen with ‘Sei Nicht Fremd’. Moritz Jahn's second album will hit the mark, make no mistake. The eleven songs with which the Berliner-by-choice brushes the ‘singer-songwriter pop’ department against the grain are too appealing.
Instead of the usual guitar picking, the musician and actor prefers to let glittering synth cascades rain down on hard techno, velvety jazz saxophone fly over acid beats or graceful melodies float on spherical banks of sound. It is partly thanks to Moritz Jahn's new-found passion for Berlin club life that the songs sound the way they do.
