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Haruhi Kobayashi | Maybe You Should Talk To Someone Album Release
w/ Bloofer Girl Puppets (feat. SlugScape) & Anna Johnson
Doors: 5:00PM to Venue | 7:00PM to Catacombs
Showtime: 7:30PM
Haruhi Kobayashi’s life in sound is woven through her new work, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone. Growing up in Tokyo, she was singing from the moment she could speak, played taiko drums as a child, and first released music eight years ago as a teen J-pop singer-songwriter. Pulling at these past threads, she explores the themes of bi-cultural identity, tradition, and existentialism while seeking to liberate sound from preconception. Her work distills experimental pop, classical composition, and avant-garde songwriting through voice, bass, and electronics.
Mark Rothko said, “I’m interested in only expressing basic human emotions - tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on.” Borrowing its title from a self-help book, Kobayashi’s new album, Maybe You Should Talk To Someone, is a diary that cheekily references the intersecting arc of intention and experience. Bass Extreme 5000 imitates the vibrations and movement of water, Fuluis is an aural reflection of a traumatic event, ((dance)) is a textural representation of the pressure and suppression often felt by Asian women. The album is dotted with the musical influences of her formative years – taiko and catchy hooks ripple throughout.
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone captures a transitional stage of Kobayashi’s practice. The pendulum swing from mainstream pop to experimental is slowly returning to the space in between.
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone is available through Monastral as a limited-edition cassette and digital download.
About the Artists
Haruhi Kobayashi is a Chicago-based sound artist and vocal performer from Tokyo. Originally a J-pop singer-songwriter, she now explores the themes of identity, tradition, love, fear and humanity while seeking to liberate sound from its fixed meanings. Her work is an intersection of experimental pop, classical composition and avant-garde songwriting through voice, bass, and electronics. She has received an AA in Music Production from the Los Angeles College of Music and a BFA in Fine Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is currently in residence with High Concept Labs.
For more information, visit haruhikobayashi.com
Bloofer Girl Puppets
Lucy journeys through the night to answer a dark and thrilling call. Weaving through visions, nightmares and foggy wakefulness, found-object-shadow-puppet sister act Bloofer Girl Puppets helps Lucy weigh the ultimate choice.
Anna Johnson
Anna Johnson’s hypnotic, devotional sonic landscapes are drawn from explorations of voice and electroacoustic instrumentation. Her sound weaves medieval-influenced vocal melodies, chants, and choral layering with synthesizer atmospheres, heavy drone textures, and forays into experimental pop.
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Sponsored by High Concept Labs.
Presented by Epiphany Center for the Arts.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is released through Monastral Records.