Autori: PAN, Yerosha Sibongile Windrich, Elfed Alexander Morris
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Genere: Elettronica
PAN
ANNUNCIA IL NUOVO ALBUM
PAN THE PANSEXUAL
IN USCITA IL 12 LUGLIO SU TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS
IL NUOVO SINGOLO
"IMPERFECT POETRY"
DISPONIBILE ORA
潘PAN (vero nome Pan Wei Ju), musicista all'avanguardia, annuncia oggi l'uscita del suo nuovo album, Pan The Pansexual. Questo è il primo progettlo sotto il nuovo pseudonimo dell'artista Aristophanes. In uscita il 12 luglio via Transgressive Records, il disco vanta la produzione degli innovatori Clams Casino e Bon Music Vision (Kojey Radical, Lucinda Chau, Tsunaina, Gaika), con David Wrench (Sampha, FKA Twigs, The xx) al mixaggio. Con la notizia, 潘PAN ha condiviso uno stuzzicante nuovo singolo e video, "Imperfect Poetry", che parla della forza di essere vulnerabili.
Parlando del singolo, l'artista taiwanese spiega: "È il monologo di una giovane e poco esperta strega, che non sempre fa bene tutte le sue magie e alchimie. Desiderosa di amore, si esercita a esprimere le sue paure e i suoi bisogni attraverso la poesia, trasformandola infine in incantesimi. I suoni brillanti e orecchiabili fluttuano intorno e sollevano il messaggio, unendo qualsiasi anima in ascolto in un unica entità".
Pan The Pansexual closely follows the release of two recent EPs Reborn and Ghosts, which was Pan’s first new music in seven years, and saw support from Tara Kumar on BBC Radio 1’s Future Artists show, an X-POSURE playlist add from John Kennedy on Radio X and further spins from Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1. The album and EPs were written in Hong Kong, Berlin and Taipei and recorded/produced in London and Melbourne, representing an emotional and physical journey across cultures and identities.
Though Pan Wei Ju is an entirely new artist - new outlook, new message, new material and name - you may have met the woman herself before. Back in the mid-’10s, the Taipei-born rapper went by the moniker Aristophanes. After performing a career-changing feature on ‘SCREAM’, taken from Grimes’ celebrated NME Album of 2015 ‘Art Angels’, Aristophanes went on to build a cult fanbase, releasing her debut mixtape ‘Humans Become Machines’.
It’s perhaps no surprise that Pan needed a little more time to settle into herself and her art. Raised by a mother who “hated music” and refused to have it in the house, she recalls having almost zero access to pop culture until she moved out of the family home. Inspired by the storytelling of the Taiwanese rappers that she then began to listen to, the heavily male-dominated scene at the time, however, made it almost impossible for Pan to broach. Undeterred, she turned to the internet, reaching out to producers and collaborating with artists across the globe and outside of her bubble.
Working with Grimes was the confidence booster that Pan needed. “If you’ve got ears and you’ve got a desire to express, then you can learn all the things - it’s not just limited to men,” she says. “I can learn that and I can do what I want, I just need to do the work.” And so, for the past half decade, Pan has been doing exactly that. She’s moved to Lisbon, where she lives with her recently-adopted cat Truffle; she’s been working with other people and most importantly, she’s been writing.
Across a constantly morphing sonic palette that moves from metallic, apocalyptic beats to delicate nods to the traditional music of her Asian heritage, via heavy, industrial moments, spacious soundscapes and much more, the thread in Pan’s music is utterly mesmeric vocal. Performing in a mix of Mandarin and English, she says having the two languages to play with is “like featuring another artist who has a different way of describing things”.
“When I was in Taiwan and I started working with producers who didn’t speak the language, it made me think about how I perform my voice to use it more like an instrument to express what I’m saying,” she continues. “I feel like I have two personalities when I speak. In Mandarin, I’m more soft and poetic and I can express really delicate stuff, and in English I'm more like an angry teenager! It’s an experience I never have when I speak Mandarin so it feels so fresh and raw and straightforward.”
Across the releases, confident sexual expression mixes with tenderness, empathy and a particularly feminine sort of strength to create a world that Pan hopes will transcend language and connect her audience via something more innate. “The message that I want to carry through these two EPs and the album is to demonstrate the strength of accepting your own situations. When you can’t make things right but you’ve done your best, sometimes it’s really hard to admit that to yourself. It takes strength to do that. I use lots of sexual metaphors, but I feel like it’s more about the female need to be seen and heard. I want to build something more delicate and layered and connected to our life experience - to the trauma and the pleasure and the growth.”
In the time since she last stepped into the spotlight, the musician has experienced her fair share of all these things. Now, it’s as an entirely evolved artist that she returns with a new collection of music that revels in it all: the trauma, the pleasure, the growth and the long-awaited rebirth of Pan Wei Ju.
Ilaria
ANNUNCIA IL NUOVO ALBUM
PAN THE PANSEXUAL
IN USCITA IL 12 LUGLIO SU TRANSGRESSIVE RECORDS
IL NUOVO SINGOLO
"IMPERFECT POETRY"
DISPONIBILE ORA
潘PAN (vero nome Pan Wei Ju), musicista all'avanguardia, annuncia oggi l'uscita del suo nuovo album, Pan The Pansexual. Questo è il primo progettlo sotto il nuovo pseudonimo dell'artista Aristophanes. In uscita il 12 luglio via Transgressive Records, il disco vanta la produzione degli innovatori Clams Casino e Bon Music Vision (Kojey Radical, Lucinda Chau, Tsunaina, Gaika), con David Wrench (Sampha, FKA Twigs, The xx) al mixaggio. Con la notizia, 潘PAN ha condiviso uno stuzzicante nuovo singolo e video, "Imperfect Poetry", che parla della forza di essere vulnerabili.
Parlando del singolo, l'artista taiwanese spiega: "È il monologo di una giovane e poco esperta strega, che non sempre fa bene tutte le sue magie e alchimie. Desiderosa di amore, si esercita a esprimere le sue paure e i suoi bisogni attraverso la poesia, trasformandola infine in incantesimi. I suoni brillanti e orecchiabili fluttuano intorno e sollevano il messaggio, unendo qualsiasi anima in ascolto in un unica entità".
Pan The Pansexual closely follows the release of two recent EPs Reborn and Ghosts, which was Pan’s first new music in seven years, and saw support from Tara Kumar on BBC Radio 1’s Future Artists show, an X-POSURE playlist add from John Kennedy on Radio X and further spins from Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1. The album and EPs were written in Hong Kong, Berlin and Taipei and recorded/produced in London and Melbourne, representing an emotional and physical journey across cultures and identities.
Though Pan Wei Ju is an entirely new artist - new outlook, new message, new material and name - you may have met the woman herself before. Back in the mid-’10s, the Taipei-born rapper went by the moniker Aristophanes. After performing a career-changing feature on ‘SCREAM’, taken from Grimes’ celebrated NME Album of 2015 ‘Art Angels’, Aristophanes went on to build a cult fanbase, releasing her debut mixtape ‘Humans Become Machines’.
It’s perhaps no surprise that Pan needed a little more time to settle into herself and her art. Raised by a mother who “hated music” and refused to have it in the house, she recalls having almost zero access to pop culture until she moved out of the family home. Inspired by the storytelling of the Taiwanese rappers that she then began to listen to, the heavily male-dominated scene at the time, however, made it almost impossible for Pan to broach. Undeterred, she turned to the internet, reaching out to producers and collaborating with artists across the globe and outside of her bubble.
Working with Grimes was the confidence booster that Pan needed. “If you’ve got ears and you’ve got a desire to express, then you can learn all the things - it’s not just limited to men,” she says. “I can learn that and I can do what I want, I just need to do the work.” And so, for the past half decade, Pan has been doing exactly that. She’s moved to Lisbon, where she lives with her recently-adopted cat Truffle; she’s been working with other people and most importantly, she’s been writing.
Across a constantly morphing sonic palette that moves from metallic, apocalyptic beats to delicate nods to the traditional music of her Asian heritage, via heavy, industrial moments, spacious soundscapes and much more, the thread in Pan’s music is utterly mesmeric vocal. Performing in a mix of Mandarin and English, she says having the two languages to play with is “like featuring another artist who has a different way of describing things”.
“When I was in Taiwan and I started working with producers who didn’t speak the language, it made me think about how I perform my voice to use it more like an instrument to express what I’m saying,” she continues. “I feel like I have two personalities when I speak. In Mandarin, I’m more soft and poetic and I can express really delicate stuff, and in English I'm more like an angry teenager! It’s an experience I never have when I speak Mandarin so it feels so fresh and raw and straightforward.”
Across the releases, confident sexual expression mixes with tenderness, empathy and a particularly feminine sort of strength to create a world that Pan hopes will transcend language and connect her audience via something more innate. “The message that I want to carry through these two EPs and the album is to demonstrate the strength of accepting your own situations. When you can’t make things right but you’ve done your best, sometimes it’s really hard to admit that to yourself. It takes strength to do that. I use lots of sexual metaphors, but I feel like it’s more about the female need to be seen and heard. I want to build something more delicate and layered and connected to our life experience - to the trauma and the pleasure and the growth.”
In the time since she last stepped into the spotlight, the musician has experienced her fair share of all these things. Now, it’s as an entirely evolved artist that she returns with a new collection of music that revels in it all: the trauma, the pleasure, the growth and the long-awaited rebirth of Pan Wei Ju.
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