{"id":80330,"date":"2022-10-12T16:05:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/?p=80330"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T19:01:11","slug":"atsuko-chiba-is-back-from-slumber-with-seeds","status":"publish","type":"quoi_voir","link":"https:\/\/panm360.com\/en\/quoi-voir-360\/atsuko-chiba-is-back-from-slumber-with-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Atsuko Chiba is back from slumber with “Seeds”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I remember the first time I threw on Atsuko Chiba’s 2019 album, Trace<\/em>. My partner stepped into the room and asked me why I was listening to “vampire music.” Vampire music … perhaps so … if a bunch of prog rock\/synth enthusiasts in Transylvania were creating mind-expanding sounds up in a neon-lit high bell tower. The real band, however\u2014who take their name from a character in the dream detective anime, Paprika<\/em>\u2014are five guys from Montreal who happen to love strange time signatures, Delphic lyrics, drone, and basically anything and everything outside the realm of ‘simple music.’ They even made a crazy prog-rock hip-hop chameleon called “Quick Infant Guilt,” which sounds like MF Doom fronted by King Crimson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Atsuko Chiba has a knack for making its maelstrom of prog, drone, and psych sound digestible and easy to latch onto, with their latest offering “Seeds,” being a testament to that statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Seeds,” clocking in at 7 minutes and 45 seconds, is an immersive journey that puts the listener into an out-of-body trance. Trilling guitars, harmony after vocal harmony, sprawling synths, tasty\/grooving bass, sprinkles of percussion, and smashing crash cymbals, and a gorgeous string arrangement by Montreal quartet, Quatuor Esca, “Seeds,” nestles deep into its own sonic universe and leaves a burning and enigmatic uncertainty. You’d go mad trying to decipher its meaning, but a lovely music video, directed by Rodrigo Sergio and starring Jade Maya does just that. Maya reacts, dancing and contorting to the music, changing her movement tones from a quaint forest environment to a brutalist city underpass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy the “Seeds” video here before Atsuko Chiba’s third full-length, Water, It Feels Like Its Growing<\/em> drops in January via Mothland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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