About

I am Kristoffer Storjohann AKA Kristorn. I was born in Norway the 18 of june 1972.
A musician, artist, poet, guitarist and world traveler, I like to explore the inner and outer world. I am free thinker and a spiritual searcher.
19 years old I left Norway never to look back. Since I have lived in Spain and Berlin Germany.
I grew up in the idillic norwegian country side, eating cherries off the trees in summer and skiing to school in winter. At 8 years old, we moved to the rainy city of Bergen on the west coast.
Traveling Europe with my family in those early years, I got a taste for adventure. In school I quickly understood that foreign languages should be my focus. Looking back, I developed a love for words this way,that later showed up in my song writing.

My father was a fanatic of classical music and played records in the house constantly, so I got heavily exposed to the classical composers in my childhood. Even though it never really made me want to play, I do think it trained my ear. It was when my older brother brought Miles Davis and Prince records home, that I got that itch. At first I got myself a saxophone.

At 19 years old I left for Spain to study spanish. I liked it so much that I stayed to study fine arts in the university of Salamanca in 1993. There I took my first guitar lessons. I liked flamenco guitar so much that I set out to try to learn it.

In 1997 I went to Berlin in Germany to continue my fine arts studies. I got the opportunity to study at the former DDR art school in east Berlin, Weisensee Kunsthochschule. After getting my degree I kept painting and teaching at my studio in Berlin.

I think that my fine arts studies made me see music with the eyes of an artist. Fascinated by creativity and musical concepts, the ultimate quest to me, is that of the innovator and a visionary. Nobody can promise or guarantee originality, but I think an honest attempt to create something personal is recognizable. I try never to judge an idea as silly especially in the early stages.

In 2000, since the dream of music would not leave me alone, I began to study the guitar from scratch. The russian guitarist Oleg Seleznev was my teacher and he was the first to really break it down for me, how to physically play the instrument.

I wanted to know how music worked, so I also studied theory with the extremely methodical german composer Carlo Inderhees from 2001 to 2004. Learning about the laws of music was such a kick to me, I felt as if I was introduced into a secret club.

From 2004 to 2006 I studied sound engineering at the SAE Berlin . The technical side of recording did not come as easy and natural to me, but the desire to be able to record my own music was strong enough.

I founded the silk print company “Stoff” with a partner in 2005, selling apparel with my drawings printed on them. Parallel to that I worked as a guitarist in Berlin, accompanying different singers, especially Rejana Woock, and played in different Berlin groups like K.O.Kicker, Clap for Oyibo and Myriad.

In 2012 my father died. It was a strangely beautifully experience of reconciliation to me. It open my eyes, to the finitude of life. Tired of putting energy into projects I had no or little control over and going nowhere, I understood that I had to make my own music. I knew that I wanted to make a real old school album like the ones I grew up listening to. The result was “69”, a record of 13 songs dedicated to my father, published on the label Phonector in 2013.

I was so surprised and impressed with the result that I decided to do it again. I changed around on collaborators, something that cost me a bit of extra time, but in 2017 I finally put out the album “Sound Proof”.

The first two records represent my personal development as well as spiritual growth. When I listen back to them, I feel that I really expressed myself. My relentless search for inner freedom, creative music and expressive lyrics was captured well to me.

I third album called “Paradice” is in the making, and I am looking for ways to put my music out in the world in more effective way.