Japanese Breakfast - Soft sounds from another planet

2017-10-18 20:23:04- Newsbeitrag

JAPANESE BREAKFAST | NEUES VIDEO ZU THE BODY IS A BLADE |

SOFT SOUNDS FROM ANOTHER PLANET JETZT VIA DEAD OCEANS

AUF TOUR IM OKTOBER






Heute präsentiert uns Michelle Zauner aka Japanese Breakfast ein wunderschönes Video zu dem Track The Body Is A Blade aus ihrem hoch gelobten Album Soft Sounds From Another Planet, das im Sommer auf Dead Oceans erschienen ist.



Wieder einmal hat Michelle hier selbst Regie geführt und erneut hatte sie den Kameramann Adam Kolodny an ihrer Seite. Michelle erzählt, dass sie beim Durchblättern von alten Fotoalben ihrer Familie zu dem Video inspiriert wurde: „I've always loved the way old photographs look. For this video I spent a lot of time searching family albums for sets of old photographs to animate.”



Japanese Breakfasts Musik ist sehr persönlich und mit diesem Video lüftet sich der Vorhang noch ein wenig mehr. Wir bekommen einen sehr persönlichen Einblick in das Familienleben Zauners, indem einzelne Kameraeinstellungen neben alte Familienbilder ihrer Eltern und vor allem ihrer Mutter gestellt werden. „I wanted this video to commemorate my mother who died three years ago today”, erklärt Michelle. „It felt fitting for the song to create a really personal mixed media piece, almost like a moving scrapbook.’’


Im Oktober kommt Michelle Zauner für drei Konzerte nach Deutschland und bei zwei Terminen wird sie von der wunderbaren Phoebe Bridgers supportet.



The Body Is A Blade:



Road Head:



Machinist:





TOUR DATEN:


23.10. Köln, DE - Blue Shell *
24.10. Hamburg, DE - Häkken *
25.10. Berlin, DE - Badehaus
* mit Phoebe Bridgers

2017-07-21 12:29:00

Ja, die ersten beiden Songs sind toll. Danach kriegt es mich auch noch nicht wirklich. Hab zwar nicht per se was gegen Autotune, hätte es aber auch nicht wirklich gebraucht. Die Songs danach huschen dann irgendwie zu sehr vorbei. Aber ich werde dem Album noch einige Chancen geben. Psychopomp war schließlich so super.

2017-07-21 08:06:50

Das Album lässt sich eigentlich ganz gut an, aber dann fängt bei "Machinist" dieser Autotune-Mist an. Warum?

2017-07-12 21:01:46- Newsbeitrag

Frisch rezensiert.

Meinungen?

2017-07-06 17:55:20- Newsbeitrag

JAPANESE BREAKFAST | NEUES VIDEO ZUR 3. SINGLE ROAD HEAD | ZWEI TOURDATEN IM HERBST |

SOFT SOUNDS FROM ANOTHER PLANET AB 14 JULI VIA DEAD OCEANS




„Noch weiter weg vom Shoegaze und klarer ausproduziert, gibt Michelle Zauner ihrem Indie Pop / -Rock mehr Glanz, Breite und vor allem ungeheure inhaltlich Tiefe.“ – Platte Des Monats | Musikexpress



„ (…) auch in „Soft Sounds From Another Planet” verliert Zauner die Bodenhaftung nicht – vielmehr erweitert sie das Spielfeld, verspricht sich Trost und Traumbewältigung vom Blick ins Universum, ohne in Esoterik oder Religiosität abzudriften.“ – Spex



"Another great Japanese Breakfast album in the style of Psychopomp would've been a gift, but this is something better. It's proof that we're only beginning to glimpse Zauner's capacity for evolution." – Pitchfork



"Mines the dark drama of Vangelis and the melancholic fall-out from Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak." – NPR





Japanese Breakfast veröffentlichen heute mit „Road Head“ ihre dritte Single inklusive Video von dem am 14. Juli über Dead Oceans erscheinenden Soft Sounds From Another Planet, der lang erwartete Nachfolger des gefeierten Debütalbums Psychopomp.



Über das Video sagt Michelle Zauner: „Road Head' is the fifth music video Adam Kolodny and I have collaborated on. For this one we wanted to focus on staging and an exaggerated color palette. We were inspired by Fallen Angels and Twin Peaks."



Soft Sounds >From Another Planet ist ein Werk der Selbstreflektion, das sich dem Kosmos zuwendet auf der Suche nach Heilung, um Inspiration in Science Fiction, im Weltall und dem Mars One Projekt zu finden.







TOURDATEN:



23. Oktober - Köln, DE @ Blue Shell

25. Oktober - Berlin, DE @ Badehaus



Japanese Breakfast - Road Head (Official Video):







Mehr zu Japanese Breakfast:



"The title Soft Sounds From Another Planet alludes to the promise of something that may or may not be there. Like a hope in something more. The songs are about human resilience and the strength it takes to claw out of the darkest of spaces."



Michelle Zauner wrote the debut Japanese Breakfast album in the weeks after her mother died of cancer, thinking she would quit music entirely once it was done. That wasn't the case. When Psychopomp was released to acclaim in 2016, she was forced to confront her grief. Zauner would find find herself reliving traumatic memories multiple times a day during interviews, trying to remain composed while discussing the most painful experience of her life. Her sophomore album, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, is a transmutation of mourning, a reflection that turns back on the cosmos in search of healing.



"I want to be a woman of regimen," Zauner sings over a burbling synth on the album's opening track "Diving Woman." This serves as Zauner's mission statement: stick to the routine lest you get derailed, don't cling to the past, don't descend. In fact, ascend to the stars; Zauner found artistic solace removed from Earth, in outer space and science fiction. "I used the theme as a means to disassociate from trauma," she explains. "Space used as a place of fantasy."



And yet, Soft Sounds >From Another Planet isn't a concept album. Over the course of 12 tracks, Zauner explores an expansive thematic universe, a cohesive outpouring of unlike parts structured to create a galaxy of her own design. In the instrumental "Planetary Ambience," synths communicate the way extraterrestrials might, and on the shapeshifting single "Machinist," which Zauner has been performing live for over a year now, she details the sci-fi narrative of a woman falling in love with a machine. "It's pure fiction," she explains, "But it can map onto real relationships in a relevant way." The track, which begins with spoken-word ambience, moves into autotune '80s pop bliss and ends with a sultry saxophone solo, perfectly marries the experience: there's a perceptible humanity in mechanical, bodily events.



Within its astral production, much of Soft Sounds From Another Planet stays grounded. "Road Head" is the last chest compression in attempt to resuscitate a doomed relationship, while the penultimate track "This House" is an acoustic dirge that honors Zauner's chosen family. The baroque pop "Boyish" has a haunting, crystalline clarity that recalls the pathos of a Roy Orbison ballad, while "Body is a Blade" embraces the dark intimacy of Zauner's Pacific Northwest heroes Elliott Smith and Mount Eerie.



With help from co-producer Craig Hendrix (who also co-produced Little Big League's debut) and Jorge Elbrecht, (Ariel Pink, Tamaryn) who mixed the album, Zauner recontextualizes her bedroom pop beginnings, expanding and maturing her sound. The sheer massiveness of the big room production on Soft Sounds >From Another Planet introduces listeners to a new Japanese Breakfast. Zauner's familiar, capacious voice will serve as their guide.



"Your body is a blade that moves while your brain is writhing," she sings. "Knuckled under pain you mourn but your blood is flowing." There's discernible pain in the phrasing, Zauner recognizing limitation, a lack of control, but then subverting the feeling, creating her own musical language for confronting trauma. Where Psychopomp introduced the world to Japanese Breakfast, Soft Soundsdives deeper. It builds space where there is none, and suggests that in the face of tragedy, we find ways to keep on living.





JAPANESE BREAKFAST

SOFT SOUNDS FROM ANOTHER PLANET

DEAD OCEANS

14. Juli 2017



1. Diving Woman

2. Road Head

3. Machinist

4. Planetary Ambience

5. Soft Sounds From Another Planet

6. Boyish

7. 12 Steps

8. Jimmy Fallon Big

9. Body Is A Blade

10. Till Death

11. This House

12. Here Come The Tubular Bells