And I feel like I’m just getting started. I honestly didn’t know what would come out of it (if anything at all) but now I’m happy I did it. I was following my intuition and curiosity – two important motivating factors in any decision making process for me. I think, paradoxically, one of the motivating factors was that I was afraid to do it, and I needed to understand why. But I definitely came out in wonderland □ □ Starting Discovery Zone felt like taking an existential leap of faith down the rabbit hole into the unknown. It was super important for me to figure out who I was on my own – both personally and musically. For different reasons, after our last record came out, we all felt like we needed a break from planet Fenster. Over the course of about eight years we made four records and a feature length film and toured all over Europe and North America. It happened really quickly and was a totally unexpected plot twist in the story of my life. JJ: Fenster was the first and only band I was ever in. JJ, you are also a member of the band Fenster. Recently she presented the project with the stunning performance “Cybernetica” at Pop-Kultur festival in Berlin, right now she is touring around Europe. Most Kaput readers know JJ Weihl so far as the charismatic singer of the Berlin based modern pop band Fenster, portrayed on kaput by Lisa Schmidt-Herzog three years ago. Since then the Manhattan born artist went for what she calls an “existential leap of faith down the rabbit hole into the unknown” and started Discovery Zone, a solo project exploring the deep web of 80s pop and beyond. Discovery Zone, photographed during “Cybernetica” performance at Pop-Kultur-Festival at Maschinenhaus (Photo: Camille Blake)
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