LYRICS: Person from the Dreams (Ananda Jacobs)
SONGWRITING: Person from the Stars (Ananda Jacobs)
INSTRUMENTS: Person from the Water (Ananda Jacobs)
PROGRAMMING: Person from the Caves (Ananda Jacobs)
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT:
Live bass: Katsuya Nakanishi
Additional mixing, instruments, engineering, and production on "Show Pillows" and "Phoenix": Steve Anderson
Engineering and additional mixing on "Lonesome Town," "Massacre," "Shattered": Tetsuro
PLEASE DIRECT ALL INQUIRIES TO: anandasound@gmail.com
Etkilendikleri
Music, Death...
Mars, mathematics, the color green, theatre of the absurd, self-referentiality, auditory neuroscience, J, metal, glass, foxes, moldavite, quasi-aleatoric beginnings and intentional endings, dreams, senses, vivid memories, black coffee.
Also Swedish and French pop, the sound of Portuguese, Japan, the Grand Canyon, DREAMS, orange and gray together like a sort of hazy sun, looking at people's teeth when they talk, my uncannily large black pupils.
Alright, the music:
Ace of Base, Björk, The Cardigans, Goldfrapp, The Cranberries, Dhomont, Coldplay, Radiohead, Portishead, Blonde Redhead, Ricky Nelson, Garbage, Nico, Rachmaninov, Vivaldi, Philip Glass, Bugs, Mika Nakashima, Anna Tsuchiya, Kitaro, Alanis Morissette, Amon Tobin, Simon and Garfunkel, Angelo Badalamenti, Bartok, Beck, Bee Gees, Cindi Lauper, Enya, Eurythmics, Fiona Apple, Imogen Heap, Green Day, Jem, Johnny Cash, Katell Keineg, Madonna, Ladytron, Massive Attack, Pat Benatar, PJ Harvey, Sobersleep, Satisfaction Wheel, Solex, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Various Artists
Ananda Jacobs is one of the top foreign actress-models working in Japan. After graduating Magna Cum Laude in Psychology and Music from USC in 2004, Ananda moved to Tokyo where she quickly gained popularity as a media talent. She has been featured in over 200 TV commercials, music videos, print campaigns, and TV programs, including Coca-Cola, Betsey Johnson, Kanebo Cosmetics, and NHK Corpus 100! de Eikaiwa. In following her dream to create music, Ananda arranges, programs and produces original compositions, while occasionally remaking classic oldies pop tunes. Her music has been described as "ethereal," "melancholy," and "haunting," evoking the sounds of The Cardigans, Goldfrapp, and Portishead. Ananda invites listeners into her distinct world of dark electronic pop.
アナンダ・ジェイコブズ
アナンダ・ジェイコブズは、現在日本で働いているトップ外国人の女優兼モデルです。
2004年に心理学と音楽で南カリフォルニア大学を全額給与の奨学金で卒業した後に、メディア才能としてすぐに人気を獲得した東京に動きました。
彼女は200回以上のテレビコマーシャル、ミュージックビデオ、印刷物によるキャンペーン、およびテレビ番組で特集されました。コカコーラ、ベッツィー・ジョンソン、カネボウ、およびNHK Corpus100!de 英会話などで活躍しました。
同時に彼女の夢である音楽を創ることにも活動の場を広げています。
ポップスが調整する古典的なオールディーズを作り替え、独創的な作品をアレンジして、プログラムします。 The Cardigans、Goldfrapp、およびPortisheadの音を喚起して、彼女の音楽は「霊妙で」、「憂うつで」、「忘れられない」印象を残しま。 暗い電子ポップスの異なった世界にリスナーを招待します。
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Welcome to the central online musical repository of Ananda Jacobs!
All songwriting, lyrics, arranging and programming by Ananda Jacobs. ("Lonesome Town" is Ananda Jacobs' remake of the 1958 hit as sung by Ricky Nelson.)
Lyrical themes often involve death and dreamscapes. Earlier works were recorded in Ananda's bedroom in Los Angeles, with vocals recorded inside a closet or paper bags. Middle works with Sobersleep recorded in Chicago. Current works crafted in the heart of Tokyo.
"Comforting Goldfrapp- and Cardigans-like sounds, along with a touch of Tokyo influence, converge in Ananda Jacobs' works, resulting in a dark kind of electronic pop. Produced entirely by Jacobs, her music has a spacious, melancholic feel that, though difficult to identify, is strangely familiar..."
-July 16, 2009 | Volume 8, Number 28 emusicianXTRA Newsletter by Tracy Katz
Odds and Ends EM Pick: Ananda Jacobs
"If you pride yourself in your music knowledge then Ananda is a name to remember, her voice is a haunting mixture of the late 60’s rock and chill out sounds. If you love Jefferson Airplanes White rabbit and Simon and Garfunkel’s The sound of silence or if you just like music that transports you to another place, well, then this is Ananda Jacobs."
-July 2, 2009 | Made in Japan The Talented Ms Ananda Jacobs
Violette Nlandu Ngoy
read full interview at Made in Japan Magazine
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Ananda graduated at the age of 21 Magna cum Laude from the University of Southern California, where she studied psychology and music. While at university, Ananda was a member of at least 12 academic honor societies, and was a Renaissance Scholar, an Engineering Merit Research Scholar, and executive producer and composer for the Experimental Music Showcase. Having written theses on the evolutionary functionality of dreams, timbre in musical perception, and electroencephalography patterns in criminal minds, Ananda was invited with full scholarships to pursue doctoral degrees in cognitive neuroscience at UCLA, Northwestern, Cornell, and the University of Maryland in 2005.
However, she instead moved to Tokyo and built a successful career as a model and media talent, becoming one of the most frequently hired foreign models in Japan. She has appeared in hundreds of campaigns for electronic, beauty, and fashion brands. In 2008 her face was seen on the Coca-Cola vending machines all over Japan. She has been in the magazines Russh, Zexy, Rolling Stone Japan, Snip, Goggle, and SO-EN, and catalogues for Betsey Johnson, Nikon, Roland, Paris Miki, Fuji Film, and Honda. Ananda was featured in TV commercials for Fresh-Up, JinRo, ECC, Nishin, McDonalds, Domino Pizza, and Softbank. She appears weekly in over 50 episodes of the nationally broadcast TV program "Corpus 100! de Eikaiwa" (NHK), and has made frequent appearances on "Koi no Karasawagi" (Nihon TV). She has also appeared on episodes of "Hanamaru Market" (TBS), "Pussuma" (TV Asahi), and "Shikatte! Blonde Sensei" (TBS), as well as dozens of other programs. Ananda has performed as an actress or dancer in over 20 music videos for acts such as L'arc~en~Ciel, Crystal Kay, Garnet Crow, V6, Leah Dizon, Bonnie Pink, Tohoshinki, Crazy Ken Band and Dream Theater, and was the singer/lyricist for the Baila Fashion Magazine TV commercials. She was the character model for "Mina" in the Nintendo DS game "Wish Room 2." In 2008 Ananda acted in her first Japanese film, Takashi Shimizu's short movie "Uranai Tamae" (from the feature film "Hijoshi Zukan"), co-starring as "Catherine."
In 2009 Ananda began to focus again on music. With a background in clarinet, saxophone, keyboards and music composition, and armed with her performing experiences in Tokyo, she began producing, arranging, and recording original music compositions, as well as collaborating with other Japanese and international artists as a singer, songwriter, and producer. Her lyrics are often based on her sense of the surreal and the sometimes tragic or mysterious landscapes she sees in dreams. Most compositions are developed at home using Logic Studio, a Nord Lead 3 keyboard, and a microphone. She further records and mixes her tracks at studios in Tokyo. By 2010 she plans to release her first album, including tracks sung both in English and in Japanese.
As a child in wooded Flagstaff, Arizona, Ananda often played in the dirt, made tree forts, or tended to her pet chickens, rabbits, rats, and donkey. She was quite fond of inventing games with her sisters and her best friend Sam. Her parents were always very resourceful and built the family's whole house themselves--not without the help of little Ananda and her sisters, of course. The Jacobs' also had a penchant for traveling, and in 1992 decided to fly, sail, train, and drive all around the world on a minuscule budget and steady diet of oatmeal and peanut butter sandwiches. Ananda was especially influenced by her time in India, Kenya, Japan, and England. She continued to cultivate a very personal relationship with sound and music throughout her adventures.
Upon the family's return to the United States, Ananda experienced many things. These included: settling in Bremerton, Washington, graduating high school with ridiculous honors that she never officially utilized, graduating college in similar fashion, playing the clarinet for several years, falling in love, consuming a lot of applesauce and Red Vines candy, and aiming to master her pursuits as a psychology researcher, math tutor, model, and, what else...oh yes, musician.
OTHER COLLABORATIONS...
Satisfaction Wheel Lyrics, voice, keyboards, songwriting, 2004-2006. Sobersleep Programming, lyrics, voice, songwriting, 2005-2008. Sound Faerie Voice, English lyrics, 2008-present. Electr-Ohm Records compilation album release included Ananda's "Alexander"
Featured in music promotion videos with:
Tohoshinki
Angelo, "Usubeni no Kakera"
V6 "Vibrations"
Art School "Illmatic Baby"
Mori Daisuke "Itsuka moshika"
Kuraki Mai
Itou Yuna "Groovy x2"
Bonnie Pink "Chain"
Crystal Kay "Namidano sakini", "Konnani Chikaku de"
L'Arc en Ciel "Drink it Down"
Becca "I'm alive"
Dream Theater "Forsaken"
Kinki Kids "Brand New Song"
Leah Dizon "Koi shiyou"
Ohmura Takayoshi "Distant Thunder"
Wizard "Divine Witch Falls into Ruin"
Crazy Ken Band "Amanogawa"
jealKb London Boots "Love Scar"
Garnet Crow "Kaze to Rainbow"
Ananda Jacobs アナンダ・ジェイコブズ | Arkadaşlar (En İyi 36)
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