MIDORI JAEGER announces new EP '(Re)planted' today with first single "planted" - listen now.

midori jaeger - Announces new EP '(Re)planted' - Out August 26th - First single "planted" online now - The counterpart EP to March's '(Un)planted' explores a more delicate palette

'(Re)planted' EP artwork (click for high res) In March this year, London-based cellist and singer midori jaeger (pronounced MID-uh-ree YAY-ger) released EP '(Un)planted', followed by a sold out show at London's St Pancras Old Church. Now she prepares to release '(Re)planted' on August 26th, announced today along with opening track, "planted”. Drawing a parallel between the cello - once a living tree - and midori's own journey as a child uprooted several times and forced to build roots on different soils, '(Un)planted’ depicts experiences of finding one’s own identity amidst change, and seeking solace in creativity and nature. The forthcoming counterpart '(Re)planted' continues to transmute midori’s uprootedness and mixed cultural heritage into songs written from the cello, this time harnessing a softer language, with her signature groove-led style of playing giving way to more delicate and flowing passages. Marking the transition is first single "planted", online today. Seeing herself as a plant “plucked out of its habitat and then re-planted somewhere else”, the track draws on midori’s experience of migration, after moving from Japan to the UK aged five before returning to Japan at sixteen - "the UK had become the only home I really knew, but then I suddenly had to leave it" she explains. “Being uprooted makes you feel like a plant in unfamiliar soil, having had your roots moved and replanted before you’ve had a chance to take in enough nourishment from the soil you need.”  Listen to "planted" here: https://youtu.be/_eKPYiWhbVs From the ground, the tree. From the tree, the wood. From the wood, the cello. From the cello, a human—wrapping herself around it.   For London-based musician midori jaeger — who has collaborated with Imogen Heap, Patrick Watson, Christian Löffler, Daughter, Courtney Pine and Tanita Tikaram — 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 has played the cello since she was eight. Classically trained at the Royal Academy of Music, she 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. 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. ‘(Re)planted’ EP track list: 1. planted 2. safe 3. hunted 4. or 5. wait 6. lungs Links: '(Un)planted' EP Web | Instagram | Facebook | Bandcamp | Spotify | YouTube