MIDORI JAEGER: London-based newcomer shares new single "exterior" + announces London show. Forthcoming EP out March 9th.

midori jaeger - Shares new single "exterior" - Announces London live date - EP '(Un)planted' out March 9th

Photo credit: Inigo Blake  London-based cellist, singer and songwriter midori jaeger (pronounced MID-uh-ree YAY-ger) has shared a new single from her forthcoming EP ‘(Un)planted', which is set for release on March 9th. The third single from the release, "exterior" is online now and comes alongside news of a London live date at St Pancras Old Church on April 22nd. The delicately pizzicato prickles of "exterior" echo the quiet discomfort of mixed identity. "I wrote this song when I was covered in mosquito bites!" she comments. "Insect bites on the skin inspired me to explore other itches and niggles she felt within myself and my identity." The lyric ‘vague sense of irritation nestles under your exterior’ sums up a desire to connect with her heritage, to use the Japanese language she had within her but that felt out of touch, to inhabit fully her sexuality, and to understand what having a mixed identity means. When fragments of your identity are locked in memories from childhood spent in a different culture, how do we live in that identity as an adult? Listen to "exterior" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQlppu8lI3c Other midori jaeger links: https://linktr.ee/midori_jaeger "exterior" follows the biophilic lead single "dark green" and the woody and angular "exasperate" as the third look at her forthcoming EP, '(Un)planted'. The EP itself is the first part of a double EP release, with the counterpart due to follow later in 2026.   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. midori jaeger will play London's St Pancras Old Church on April 22nd. Ticket info here. ‘(Un)planted’ EP track list: 1. dark green 2. exasperate 3. bones & mirrors 4. exterior 5. particles   ‘(Un)planted’ EP artwork by Inigo Blake (click for high res):   Links: Web | Instagram | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube