This Brooklyn based Jagjaguar band is just wrapping up a two month US tour. The samples and sets of keys illuminate their music with a haunting ethereal quality, but beneath it all thrums a locked and pulsing live drum and bass groove. This excerpt from Small Black’s blog gives a sense that the band is aiming higher than just party synth rock, and helps offer meaning and direction in understanding the collection of bands characterized as chillwave:
“In 2008, I was floating around from job to job, thinking of what sorts of songs to do, where to do them. I ended up in Greece on the island of Santorini, minding after a little bookstore called Atlantis Books. Through the kindness of the shop's patrons, I was able to stay there rent free for the winter, working on music, gazing out onto the Mediterranean every morning as I woke, organizing & reading through the books, shelved below the bed where I slept. Have never been closer to utopia! Probably won't be again!
My time there was hugely instrumental in coming up with the songs that would become the first Small Black material. Songs like Hydra & Baby Bird Pt II are loaded with samples of field recordings I'd make on my hikes around the island. The calm of my simple life there gave me the space/clarity to focus. And the blind faith the small group of friends had in creating the shop is beyond inspiring.”
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