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Japanese Breakfast, Diving Woman (live), UC Theatre, Berkeley, CA, November 7, 2021 (HD)
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Japanese Breakfast play their song “Diving Woman” live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, California on November 7, 2021. Diving Woman appeared on the band’s second studio album, Soft Sounds from Another Planet (2017). Japanese Breakfast is an indie rock band headed by Michelle Zauner (lead vocals / guitar / keyboards) with her husband Peter Bradley (guitar), Craig Hendrix (drums), and Deven Craige (bass). Joining them onstage were Adam Schatz (saxophone / keyboards) and Emily Wells (violin / keyboards).
Zauner has said this about the song: “There’s an island in South Korea called Jeju that’s famous for its female divers, haenyeo. With each dive, many haenyeo can plunge up to 30 meters and hold their breath for over three minutes. They collect abalone, conch, sea urchins and oysters and sell them at the marketplace. I really admire the haenyeo: that lifestyle, of regimen and endurance, was inspiring to me, particularly during a time when I was touring a lot. I think this song is also partially about feeling guilty about being a touring woman, and the fear that people were judging me for putting my career above having a family.”
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Diving Woman lyrics:
I wanna be a woman of regimen
A bride in her home state
A diving woman of Jeju-do
I want it all
I want it all
I want it all
I want it all
I want it
The men have gone and left again
And no one’s shocked or blames them
Another day is shot, my friend
I’m picking up the pieces
That’s the third dead dog I’ve seen on this highway
These treads are wearing thin
When I get back there, baby
I’m gonna make it a home
You’ll have it all
You’ll have it all
We’ll have it all
We’ll have it all
I’ll have it
Written by Michelle Zauner
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Japanese Breakfast official bio:
From the moment she began writing her new album, Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast (@jbrekkie) knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee. After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time—a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor. Zauner’s first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; Psychopomp was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment, while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the grief she held from her mother‘s death and used it as a conduit to explore the cosmos. Now, at the start of a new decade, Japanese Breakfast is ready to fight for happiness, an all-too-scarce resource in our seemingly crumbling world.
In the years leading up to Jubilee, Zauner also took theory lessons and studied piano in earnest for the first time, in an effort to improve her range as a songwriter: “I’ve never wanted to rest on any laurels. I wanted to push it as far as it could go, inviting more people in and pushing myself as a composer, a producer, an arranger.” She pours that sentiment into the album from the very beginning.
Jubilee is an album about processing life and love in the quest for happiness, and how that process sometimes requires us to step outside of ourselves. Throughout Jubilee, Zauner is hardly fictionalizing her lyrics, instead pouring her own life into the universe of each song to tell real stories, and allowing those universes, in turn, to fill in the details. Joy, change, evolution—these things take real time, and real effort. And Japanese Breakfast is here for it.
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Jubilee live tour dates:
Sept. 9-10 – Boston, MA @ Royale
Sept. 11 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summer Stage
Sept. 12 – Harrisburg, PA @ Midtown Arts Center
Sept. 14 – Columbus, OH @ The Athenaeum Theatre
Sept. 15-16 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sept. 17 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall
Sept. 18 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre
Sept. 19 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Sept. 21 – Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight
Sept. 23 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Festival
Sept 24 – Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
Sept. 25-27 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre
Sept. 28 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Sept. 30 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
Oct. 1 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom
Oct. 2-3 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theatre
Oct. 4 – San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
Oct. 5 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
Oct. 7 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
Oct. 8 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
Oct. 9 – Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
Oct. 10 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall
Oct. 11-12 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Oct. 14-17 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel
Oct. 29 – Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory
Oct. 30 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Oct. 31 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s (Levitation)
Nov. 1 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
Nov. 3 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
Nov. 4 – Tempe, AZ @ Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium
Nov. 7 – Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre
Nov. 9 – Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades
Nov. 11 – Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery
Nov. 12 – San Luis Obispo, CA @ Madonna Expo Center
Nov. 13 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
Nov. 14 – Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival
Nov. 15-16 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
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