LYRICS: Person from the Dreams (aka Ananda Jacobs)
SONG: Person from the Stars (aka Ananda Jacobs)
INSTRUMENTS: Person from the Water (aka Ananda Jacobs)
PRODUCING: Person from the Caves (aka Ananda Jacobs)
Additional support & Live Band: People of the Earth (TBA)
PLEASE DIRECT ALL INQUIRIES TO: anandasound@gmail.com
Influences
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
Welcome to the central online musical repository of Ananda Jacobs!
All music including lyrics and instrumentals, percussion, sampling, and all arrangements by or produced by Ananda Jacobs. ("Lonesome Town" is Ananda Jacobs' remake of the 1958 hit as sung by Ricky Nelson.)
Ananda currently works out of Tokyo most of the year, and aims to find label representation in Tokyo or Los Angeles where she also considers home. In 2009 Ananda aims to debut her much anticipated live performance in Japan. Ananda has been working as a "tarento" in Japan, appearing on hundreds of TV and ad campaigns as well as modeling fashion brands. However, her dream is to release records. A studio nerd at heart, she spends her time crafting particular recordings with the help of talented colleagues. All music is produced or co-produced by Ananda.
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. Later works crafted in the heart of Tokyo.
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.
Charles Wallace traverses the universe, absorbing harmony and thriving on the elation of sound.
"I'm a fan of non sequitur pondering: scrape vertical lines with indigo fingernails while generating a feedback loop somewhere in your auditory cortex. The out of place, the tongue in cheek, the stranger's smile, the endless cycle." - Ananda Jacobs
Posted 07/4/2005 12:03 am:
"The English language, or any
language known to humankind, lacks the
verbose definition to describe one such
as [Ananda]. An enigma wrapped in a
mystery surrounded by a puzzle that's
buried in a crossword. Just when you
think you've solved everything you
discover that it's just another clue to
another something that needs figuring
out..." - Christian Fleming
Posted 12/7/2004 2:31 am
"It should be noted that Ananda's name is
made up of two articles and a
conjunction (An-And-A)... However,
despite this atrocious abomination --
which threatens to destroy American life
as we know -- [Ananda] is truly one of
the coolest people alive. " - Bronwyn Banerdt
Posted 10/9/2004 12:33 pm
"Sometimes I think Ananda has her own
language... But once I figure out
what she's saying, I laugh because hey,
isn't she brilliant?" - Starlet Jacobs
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A bit more about Ananda: 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.
From 2004 to 2006, Ananda was the lead singer, keyboardist, lyricist, and co-writer for the L.A.-based band Satisfaction Wheel. The future promises continued collaboration with Chicago native Steve Anderson as one half of the duo Sobersleep.
In 2008 Ananda's "Alexander" was released on compilation album entitled my life in an insulation test by Japanese record label Electr-Ohm
Ananda has also begun collaboration with Eiichiro Suzuki (formerly of Hellchild) on a new Tokyo project.
She currently spends most of her time in Tokyo, working as a commercial and fashion model by day, and plotting musical and scientific progression at night.
Fun fact: 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"
might be a slightly long term thing though as i've got some other recording engagements and remixes and whatnot keeping me indoors in front of the computer on sunny summer days for the next few months... :/ but perhaps lets both think and work on some ideas in the meantime... how many redbulls have you had today?
haha wow :D so far away yet so close! months and years are only seconds and minutes... your voice is pretty damn classic now. maybe sometime in the future i send some beats for you to fly over... what do you think about that, huh? huh? what do you think abou that?
Thank you very much, you're absolutely lovely!... "Pequeña muerte" is one of our favourite repertoire songs...it was made as part of the live soundtrack of a theatral creation called "Ciudadano Sade"...here a link for you, I think you'll enjoy it..
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