{"title":"Hannah Jadagu","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHannah Jadagu is a talented musician and singer based in New York, USA. With her unique sound and captivating lyrics, she has quickly gained recognition in the music industry. Her soulful voice combined with her heartfelt songwriting creates an emotional connection with her audience. Whether performing live or recording in the studio, Hannah's passion for music shines through in every note. She continues to push boundaries and explore new genres, making her a truly versatile artist. Keep an eye out for Hannah Jadagu as she takes the music world by storm.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"aperture-2","title":"Aperture","description":"\u003cp\u003eFresh out of high school, Hannah Jadagu released her debut EP, \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Going On?\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of intimate bedroom pop tracks recorded entirely on an iPhone 7, which was, at the time, Jadagu’s most accessible mode of production. An off-the-cuff approach to music making and instinctive ability to write unforgettable hooks belied the intensity of Jadagu’s subject matter. \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Going On?\u003c\/i\u003e confronted some of the nation’s most urgent struggles through Jadagu’s compassionate perspective. \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Going On?\u003c\/i\u003e built on the small online fanbase Jadagu had developed by releasing music on SoundCloud for years as she realized her growing passion for songwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, Jadagu is releasing \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e, her first LP and most ambitious work to date. Written in the years between graduating from high school in Mesquite, TX and her sophomore year of college in New York, \u003ci\u003eAperture \u003c\/i\u003efinds Jadagu in a state of transition. “Where I grew up, everyone is Christian; even if you don’t go to church, you’re still practicing in some form,” Jadagu says, laughing. “Moving out of my small hometown has made me reflect on how embedded Christianity is in the culture down there, and though I’ve been questioning my relationship to the church since high school, it’s definitely a theme on this album, but so is family.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a kid, Jadagu followed her older sister – a major source of inspiration – to a local children’s chorus, where she received choral training. “I hated it,” Jadagu admits. “But it taught me how to harmonize, how to discover my tone, how to recognize and write melody.” The aching single “Admit It” is dedicated to Jadagu’s sister, whose love and impeccable taste have been a constant since Jadagu was a kid. The siblings were raised on mom’s Young Money mixtapes and the Black Eyed Peas (to whom Hannah credits her love of vocoder) but it was in the sanctity of her sister’s car that Jadagu discovered the indie artists who inspire her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e, Jadagu faced the challenge of finding a co-producer capable of complementing her work without dominating it. Enter Max Robert Baby, a French songwriter and producer who captured Jadagu’s attention with his take on \u003ci\u003eAperture\u003c\/i\u003e’s lead single “Say It Now.” The duo worked remotely, sending stems to one another via email, before meeting in-person for the first time at Greasy Studios on the outskirts of Paris. “When I recorded my EP, it was all MIDI, but in the studio Max and I worked with a ton of analog instruments,” Jadagu says. “Every track on this album, except for ‘Admit It,’ was written first on guitar. But the blanket of synths throughout helps me move between sensibilities. There’s rock Hannah, there’s hip-hop Hannah, and so on. I didn’t want any of the songs to sound too alike.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn aperture is defined as an opening, a hole, a gap. On a camera, it’s the mechanism that light passes through, allowing a photographer to immortalize a moment in time. For Jadagu, the word perfectly encapsulates the mood of her debut album. In the years it took her to complete, she faced moments of darkness, sure, but the process of making it was ultimately a cathartic experience, one she now shares with you. 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Her expansive second album sees her grappling with that separation, finding connections that extend beyond the physical and strengthening her own voice in the process. Describe reverberates with that tension, between wanting connection and craving space. Its lyrics, as on her debut, ache with an emotional specificity that can only be pulled from lived experience. “I’ve been five thousand miles away,” she sings over ricochetting hi-hats on “More”—“Why does three thousand feel like more?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut that distance also pushed Jadagu to explore new dimensions of her sound. “I'm super into artists that are able to mix analog with modern,” she said, and moving to California for the summer gave her the opportunity to meet new collaborators and experiment with analog synthesizers and drum machines. And while the warm hum of her guitar was her primary instrument for Aperture, she began to feel that her muscle memory of the instrument was holding her back. “It was freeing to be able to sit at a synth and drone on one note while I explored my vocals,\" she said. ”I found that to be a bit more freeing than playing on a guitar.” Working with producer Sora Lopez at his studio in Altadena and remotely on a few songs with Aperture co-producer and collaborator Max Baby out of Paris, Jadagu carved out a sound on Describe that is both distinctively hers and a total departure from the distorted guitar melodies of her debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of \u003cem\u003eDescribe\u003c\/em\u003e, though, is about what goes unsaid: “A lot of this album is me trying to figure out how to express ideas that aren’t always so concrete,” Jadagu said. “It's just a flow of things that I'm feeling and going through and expressing.” It’s fitting, then, that \u003cem\u003eDescribe\u003c\/em\u003e ends with “Bergamont,” which finds Jadagu singing some of her most brutally honest lyrics to date over a layered synth that mimics the tension and release of a long, cleansing breath. “I hope you find something true to you,” she sings. On \u003cem\u003eDescribe\u003c\/em\u003e, Jadagu is searching for the words to describe the truth, on her terms, relishing in the uncertainty in that journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor fans of For fans of Rosalía, Chanel Beads, Clairo, FKA Twigs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sub Pop","offers":[{"title":"LP - Pink","offer_id":53216724549963,"sku":"R4305-4077","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":53216724582731,"sku":"R4305-4246","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/HannahJadagu_Describe_1500x1500-1.jpg?v=1755702796"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_a092db69_thumbnail_4096_78ab4455-75dc-429b-9d93-4c600156c862.jpg?v=1727084357","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/hannah-jadagu.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}