midori jaeger. London-based cellist shares new single "exasperate" from forthcoming EP, out March 9th.

INTRODUCING: midori jaeger - Shares new single "exasperate" - EP '(Un)planted' out March 9th

Photo credit: Inigo Blake  London-based cellist, singer and songwriter midori jaeger has shared a second look at her forthcoming EP ‘(Un)planted', which is set for release on March 9th. It's the first part of a double EP release, with the counterpart due to follow later in 2026. Following the biophilic previous single "dark green", today she shares "exasperate" - a woody and angular track, alive with a restless percussive energy. Speaking on the track, she comments: "To exasperate somebody is to push them to their limits. This song is about knowing you did that, but also knowing it was true to who you are. Exasperated by the overpowering urge to break away from old patterns, to so desperately want the new at any cost, but to feel overwhelming regret for things lost, this song expresses the incessant pull of the unknown against the push of the familiar."   Listen to "exasperate" here: https://youtu.be/1yL3HST80gw Other midori jaeger links: https://linktr.ee/midori_jaeger   From the ground, the tree. From the tree, the wood. From the wood, the cello. From the cello, a human—wrapping herself around it.   Dug from the soil and shaped into song, the cello is the most human of all instruments. It vibrates at a grounding frequency and rumbles throughout the body. Its player doesn't merely clasp it by the neck but tightly swaddles it. For London-based musician midori jaeger — who has received cosigns from Adrianne Lenker and Moses Sumney, among others — this intimate bond has been one of her only constants amid a life marked by incessant uprooting and replanting.   Born in Japan and relocated to the UK at five, she later returned to Tokyo at sixteen before settling in London to study music full-time two years later. Each move was a replanting, each city a new soil.   midori began playing the cello at eight, a decision that would entwine her identity with the instrument. Classically trained at the Royal Academy of Music, midori eventually diverged from the rigid traditions she was schooled in. "Classical training made me feel quite insecure," she says. "I started feeling like, what's the point in me practising nine hours a day to just play this as well as someone else who can already do it? I kind of want to do something that only I could do."   There is no better descriptor for midori’s work: something only she could do. That insistence on personal expression defines her two latest EPs — her largest, most comprehensive, and most arresting works yet. Each song came quickly into being during the immediate aftermath of a long-term relationship, while Jaeger still lived in the bedroom she shared with her ex. After a gestational period, she later recorded the EPs over ten intense days in Lisbon, playing cello, bass synth, synth, and cavaquinho, with drums by a close friend. Every note reflects a recalibration of roots — unplanting old certainties and replanting fresh truths through incandescent emotion and visceral groove. ‘(Un)planted’ EP track list: 1. dark green 2. exasperate 3. bones & mirrors 4. exterior 5. particles   ‘(Un)planted’ EP artwork by Inigo Blake    Links: Web | Instagram | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube