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Bern-based Ja Ja Dickicht announce the release of their debut EP "Wrong Maps“
First it lures your senses and draws you into a scenery of a mild summer evening at the coast of a Mediterranean island. Your naked feet in the sand, walking closely beside someone who makes your hidden thoughts spin like a broken compass needle. Then it makes you wonder: Is this just another Love Song? No, it isn`t.
„Lights Out“, the first single, is in many ways very much „Pop“, beyond dispute. There's no bric-a-brac, for at the same time the growing musical maelstrom mirrors the complexity of communication between two humans on the threshold to a deepening relationship.
„I absolutely wanted to keep the song honest,“ says Pascal Schärli, the composer and multi-instrumentalist behind Ja Ja Dickicht. „I searched my own memory for such situations, that i remember more in the form of intense ambiguous emotions rather than actual chains of events. I then translated them into this fictional yet open story. The isolated scenery of a summery island is used kind of metaphorically, i guess.“
"Lights Out" is held in classic song structures, yet carefully built up and experimentally layered. Rhythmically driven drum- and bass patterns fall into place organically with floating structures of beautiful guitar- and synth harmonies, subtly layered noises and acoustic instrumentals.
„Wrong Maps“ will further show Ja Ja Dickicht`s potential to write music, that is consciously laid out to be listened to from very different perspectives. The song is always put first, while deliberately defying many rules of Pop music along the way.
The complete 5-track- EP will be released on 1 November 2019. Ja Ja Dickicht will be touring in fall 2019.
lyrics
Lyrics:
You say you can smell the weather changing
The darkened sky carrying rosemary with the wind
We are walking slowly in the sand
From time to time, a heavy wave is crashing down
Far out, a boat sends out a wavering light
Requesting guidance from the coast Your hand is cold, and silently
I feel like drifting way out there myself
Lets go home and pass the lighthouse
Turning in the night, warning of dangerous shoals
You look tired, I think it’s time for lights out
They will keep turning in our sleep anyway
They will keep turning in our sleep anyway
They will keep turning in our sleep anyway
And while your hands are cold, I am still floating
I still feel the rest of your body’s warm
The haze is fine enough to let some light through
But these tides are acting arbitrarily
We should head back pass by the lighthouse
Still turning on to state, so far it’s all alright
You look tired, lets go home and put the lights out
They will keep turning in our sleep anyway
Go to sleep, speed up the lighthouse
Swirling in our dreams, holding each other tight
I’d like to know how long will it keep spinning
But how the fuck could I ever tell?
If that light was once turned out for real
Would I shatter at the cliffs blocking my steering wheel?
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