SOAP&SKIN
ANNUNCIA L'ALBUM
TORSO
IN USCITA IL 22 NOVEMBRE SU PLAY IT AGAIN SAM
NUOVO SINGOLO E LYRIC VIDEO
“Mystery Of Love”
PRE-ORDER: ‘TORSO’
https://soapandskin.ffm.to/torso
“Jagged edges and claustrophobically intense” NME
“Sombre, steady, implacable” The Quietus
“A prodigious talent emerge” Clash Magazine
“Prepare to bow down to the new Queen of Singing Sad Piano-Based Songs”
Drowned In Sound
28 agosto 2024: Soap&Skin annuncia il suo primo album di cover “TORSO” con una versione di “Mystery Of Love” (originariamente di Sufjan Stevens), che uscirà il 22 novembre via Play It Again Sam.
Anja Plaschg alias Soap&Skin ha sempre avuto un talento speciale nel reinterpretare le canzoni con il suo approccio unico. Quando Donau-Festival l'ha invitata nel 2022 a eseguire tutte le cover che aveva composto nel corso degli anni, le è venuta l'idea di una raccolta permanente, che ora verrà pubblicata come album “TORSO” il 22 novembre via Play It Again Sam. Anche i precedenti album “Narrow” (2012) e “From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend” (2018) presentavano cover senza essere immediatamente riconosciute come tali. Semplicemente perché “è bello fuggire da me stessa”, dice la Plaschg. Le piacciono le cover, letteralmente come travestimento e nascondiglio.
Watch the lyric video for “Mystery Of Love” HERE
“I hear a song,” adds Anja, “and feel there's something else I'd like to add. Then I don't listen to the original. Sometimes not for years. I record the songs from memory.” So she hasn't heard The Doors' "The End" for over seven years now. An old favorite song, a little time capsule. Similar to Shirley Bassey's "Born To Lose".
Other new interpretations are Cat Power's "Maybe Not", David Bowie's "Girl Loves Me", Tom Waits' "Johnsburg, Illinois", Janis Ian's "Stars" and "Pale Blue Eyes" by The Velvet Underground among others. The strongest transformation, however, was certainly the digital bonus track, Plaschg's version of Lana Del Rey's "Gods & Monsters". If Lana Del Rey still wants “fame” and “liquor” and that “slowly” in 2012, Soap&Skin sings: “fame and liquor?”, “that is nothing holy.” And sunny lethargy turns into an experimental and mysterious electro soundscape. The twelve songs on "TORSO" were recorded in Vienna by an ensemble under Anja's direction. “For the first time,” she says, “it's actually more my style to assemble the music in a safe space, alone at home, from previously recorded samples.” Still, maybe what is created collaboratively must be recorded collaboratively too.
UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS:
6th September 2024 - New Salt Festival, Bad Ischl (AT)10th January 2025 – Orpheum, Graz (AT)11th January 2025 – Rockhouse, Salzburg (AT)17th January 2025 – Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna (AT)
1. Mystery Of Love
2. God Yu Tekkem Laef Blong Mi
3. Born To Lose
4. Gods & Monsters (Digital only Bonustrack)
5. Maybe Not
6. Voyage, Voyage
7. Johnsburg, Illinois
8. Girl Loves Me
9. Stars
10. Pale Blue Eyes
11. What's Up?
12. The End
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ANNUNCIA L'ALBUM
TORSO
IN USCITA IL 22 NOVEMBRE SU PLAY IT AGAIN SAM
NUOVO SINGOLO E LYRIC VIDEO
“Mystery Of Love”
PRE-ORDER: ‘TORSO’
https://soapandskin.ffm.to/torso
“Jagged edges and claustrophobically intense” NME
“Sombre, steady, implacable” The Quietus
“A prodigious talent emerge” Clash Magazine
“Prepare to bow down to the new Queen of Singing Sad Piano-Based Songs”
Drowned In Sound
28 agosto 2024: Soap&Skin annuncia il suo primo album di cover “TORSO” con una versione di “Mystery Of Love” (originariamente di Sufjan Stevens), che uscirà il 22 novembre via Play It Again Sam.
Anja Plaschg alias Soap&Skin ha sempre avuto un talento speciale nel reinterpretare le canzoni con il suo approccio unico. Quando Donau-Festival l'ha invitata nel 2022 a eseguire tutte le cover che aveva composto nel corso degli anni, le è venuta l'idea di una raccolta permanente, che ora verrà pubblicata come album “TORSO” il 22 novembre via Play It Again Sam. Anche i precedenti album “Narrow” (2012) e “From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend” (2018) presentavano cover senza essere immediatamente riconosciute come tali. Semplicemente perché “è bello fuggire da me stessa”, dice la Plaschg. Le piacciono le cover, letteralmente come travestimento e nascondiglio.
Watch the lyric video for “Mystery Of Love” HERE
“I hear a song,” adds Anja, “and feel there's something else I'd like to add. Then I don't listen to the original. Sometimes not for years. I record the songs from memory.” So she hasn't heard The Doors' "The End" for over seven years now. An old favorite song, a little time capsule. Similar to Shirley Bassey's "Born To Lose".
Other new interpretations are Cat Power's "Maybe Not", David Bowie's "Girl Loves Me", Tom Waits' "Johnsburg, Illinois", Janis Ian's "Stars" and "Pale Blue Eyes" by The Velvet Underground among others. The strongest transformation, however, was certainly the digital bonus track, Plaschg's version of Lana Del Rey's "Gods & Monsters". If Lana Del Rey still wants “fame” and “liquor” and that “slowly” in 2012, Soap&Skin sings: “fame and liquor?”, “that is nothing holy.” And sunny lethargy turns into an experimental and mysterious electro soundscape. The twelve songs on "TORSO" were recorded in Vienna by an ensemble under Anja's direction. “For the first time,” she says, “it's actually more my style to assemble the music in a safe space, alone at home, from previously recorded samples.” Still, maybe what is created collaboratively must be recorded collaboratively too.
UPCOMING LIVE SHOWS:
6th September 2024 - New Salt Festival, Bad Ischl (AT)10th January 2025 – Orpheum, Graz (AT)11th January 2025 – Rockhouse, Salzburg (AT)17th January 2025 – Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna (AT)
1. Mystery Of Love
2. God Yu Tekkem Laef Blong Mi
3. Born To Lose
4. Gods & Monsters (Digital only Bonustrack)
5. Maybe Not
6. Voyage, Voyage
7. Johnsburg, Illinois
8. Girl Loves Me
9. Stars
10. Pale Blue Eyes
11. What's Up?
12. The End
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