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Look at Us

by midori jaeger

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Breeze 03:30
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Forest 04:05

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Look At Us is the debut EP from midori jaeger. The four songs share a common aim of exploring emotions brought on by our connections with technology, people, and the city. The title is a call to not ever take for granted the situation we’re in and to keep questioning, searching, and observing. How does the way we live now differ to even just ten years ago? What things are making us feel closed in, stunted, limited? So much of our lives is spent indoors, using technology, or working in and amongst buildings, and the themes of confinement can sometimes feel overwhelming. On a more personal level, Look at Us can refer to looking at yourself, or yourself and friends, partners, or family, and stopping to think about what you’re saying to each other, what you’re thinking, and what you're worried about.

Breeze is about prioritising the need to harness fresh air, both physically in an urban life where the air we breathe is toxic, and in the sense of finding solace from the confines of the tensions and pressures we build around ourselves.

In a time where we’re constantly escaping from the physical reality around us through plugging in to online worlds through devices, we can lose touch with the contentment and the sense of belonging that can come from really being present in the company of people. In Upon Your Ear I wanted to get across the power of physical affection in helping us to feel situated in the world, and outside of our heads. On one level it can be interpreted as a song about escaping with a lover, but it can also symbolise anything else that provides a sense of immediacy, of living in the present moment, where nothing else matters.

Sea of Strangers explores feelings of being both agitated and comforted by the strangers with whom we share spaces in and around the city. How do these people, most of whom we ignore, affect each other, and why is it that sometimes one person who’s not a stranger can crowd your mind more than the hundreds filling the space around you?

Forest is sort of an ode to the power of listening … in the city there’s so much noise that we have to shut out in order to not be overwhelmed, and there are also amplified pressures to earn enough money to live, to have the energy to get from A to B, to not compare yourself to the thousands of successful people around you, to be disciplined enough to get things done, to be kind to yourself, and to maintain human connections so we don’t fizzle out into a ball of lonely and exhausted smoke. The culture is such that people out in public spaces generally talk to each other as little as possible. How does spending time in this climate affect our social impulses with the people we have bonds with? Sometimes it just takes one significant person to be there and listen to you when things are feeling tough.

In a hectic world where music is based largely online, I hope Look at Us can nonetheless speak to you and spark more airflow in your life, whenever you can find it, in whatever way best suits you.

~midori

credits

released February 7, 2020

Midori Jaeger - Composer, Lyricist, Cello, Vocals, Synths
Christian Prior - Piano, Wurlitzer
Nick Ereaut - Double Bass, Hofner Bass
Carlos Posada - Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Synths
Felix Higginbottom - Percussion, Synths

Produced by Carlos Posada and Felix Higginbottom
Recorded by Dave Lynch at Echo Zoo Studios, Eastbourne, December 2018
Mixed by Dave Lynch, Mastered by Michael Rendall

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midori jaeger London, UK

Cellist, singer and songwriter Midori Jaeger is a London-based artist who makes emotive songs that refuse to fit into a box. Performing with just a cello and her voice, she confronts difference, belonging, gender and mixed heritage through a distinct and cello-fuelled sonority that aches with meaning and pulses with groove.

Midori gratefully acknowledges support from the PRS Foundation.
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