Julia Holter Instagram – new @tashiwada song “Subaru”! feat @catfact @tashiwada and me
beautiful video by @dicky_bahto
from upcoming @tashiwada album What Is Not Strange? @rvngintl
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@tashiwada: Today we let fly “Subaru” from my forthcoming album What Is Not Strange? out one month from now on June 7 @rvngintl. “Subaru” was a fun one to make with the joyful interplay of Julia Holter’s soaring vocals, Ezra Buchla’s earthy viola, and my dance-like synths. Artist and filmmaker Dicky Bahto made a gorgeous, richly textured video that accompanies the music in parallel motion, sliding in and out of time
In the words of friend Matt McDermott (who also wrote the wonderful press release for the album): “Subaru, the second single from Tashi Wada’s What Is Not Strange?, looks back to the avant-garde pop that scored Japan’s 1980s economic miracle, when famed composers like Yasuaki Shimizu and Haruomi Hosono were writing commercial music for digital watches and probiotic milk beverages. On this playful piece, which evokes a peaceful glide through the star cluster that slyly gives the song (and the auto company) its name, Wada signals a transformation from transcendent minimalism to a synth-driven sound folding in folk and pop songcraft, like some imaginary jam session between Harmonia and Discover America-era Van Dyke Parks. | Posted on 08/May/2024 07:41:26
