Wrong Maps, by Ja Ja Dickicht

Wrong Maps

by Ja Ja Dickicht

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1.	Lights Out 03:47	lyrics	buy track
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?
2.	Neighbor 03:37	lyrics	buy track
My neighbor is a sponger Official burden to the state He’s living in a wasteland All potentials down the sink He’s got diamonds in the backyard He just failed to cash them in Are we really all that different from him? Way back when he was working He took one for the team Supervisors pouring poison from the high horse While he kept staring down at the floor He said he just wasn't made for the market Well but, maybe no one ever is He said his lack of will made him a failure Oh but, is that the kind of will that’s worthwhile to be enforced? My neighbor is a sponger Official burden to the state My neighbor is a sponger Thats how they made him identify Thats how they made him identify Thats how they made him identify
3.	All This Smoke 04:13	lyrics	buy track
All this smoke around Don‘t try save them, see these pages, they‘re ablaze Habits of the centuries They hurt my eyes Wise old men have been Piling truth, up to no end And then some alpha dog comes along And makes his barking pack push the pile into the flames Habits of the centuries They hurt my eyes In this cloud of vapored tokens we are blind In this cloud of vapored tokens we are blind The image of a flower store Invites me to step through the door Inhale the smell of empathy The alpha dog‘s vasectomy But utopia is not for free You‘d have to pay with dignity Let‘s burn our sense of history Just to raise the next authority It would be beautiful to catch some air But all we breathe is just this biting smell of gasoline
4.	Colony Of Drowned Out Voices 01:50		buy track
5.	Wrong Maps 03:50	lyrics	buy track
Strange landscapes Unknown to me I got the wrong maps They don’t add up Searching for a specific Part of the island To isolate you From the stones Strange liquids Much unlike water Washing out cave systems Lead the way to where our mutual memories lie Scanning for your subterranean Facial expression That encourages me to sink A little deeper now Strange landscapes Unknown to me I got the wrong maps They don’t add up at all Searching for a specific Part of the island Where I would meet A long gone friend Strange echoes Whaling on me I got the wrong maps They don’t add up at all Longing for your schizophrenic End of the story If this is all I get from you

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After the two diverging single releases „Lights Out“ and „All This Smoke“ Bern-based outfit Ja Ja Dickicht doubtlessly intend to keep surprising their audience with the upcoming 5-track-EP „Wrong Maps“, which is an astounding survey on how to make Avant-Pop sound as accessible as it is complex and idiosyncratic.

„Our every day maps for navigation through the social world, through our conscious or unconscious minds, through the thicket of the internet are inaccurate, at times even corrupted“, is the notion behind the EP-Titel. While this is poetically mirrored in the dreamy vocals of the closing track, it also infuses the rest of the release as a musical subtext, manifesting itself in the voice, the lyrics and the rhythmic layer, unfolding a musical universe of contradiction. The music is almost never just floaty or restless; determined or insecure; Pop or the opposite of Pop. It is both at the same time.

„What you can expect from this release are five carefully orchestrated tracks that are a true and personal interpretation of how innovative Pop music can sound like,“ says Pascal Schärli, the composer and multi-instrumentalist behind the project, who played, programmed and recorded most of the instruments himself. „ At the center of every composition is always the songwriting, but this is just where the work begins...“

And indeed, while listening, one can literally picture how from this inner foundation a dense and surprising construction of atmospheric guitars, synths, noises and challenging rhythmical compositions is layered and folded into each other. „I try to look at every song as a growing individual who has its own DNA and therefore develops very specific needs about how it has to be treated in the production process.“ Ja Ja Dickicht draw their own maps, trying to find a way to make it work.

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released November 1, 2019

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Ja Ja Dickicht Bern, Switzerland

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Wrong Maps

Nov 2019
All This Smoke

Sep 2019
Lights Out

Jun 2019
Brain Surgery

Dec 2017

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