Today the Taiwanese rapper/musician 潘PAN (fka Aristophanes and real name Pan Wei Ju) dropped the EP called Reborn via Transgressive Records.
Four tracks of experimental electro-pop Grimes-vibe music.
About the EP by 潘PAN:
Pan wrote the lyrics in Hong Kong, Berlin and Taipei, recorded and produced in London and Melbourne representing an emotional and physical journey across cultures and identities.
Talking about the EP, she says “Pain, sorrow, anger, delicate sounds build up and demonstrate the strength of being vulnerable. The urge to feel connected and cared for in a relationship, the desire of expressing needs without shame, and the mixture of regret and limerence, all are very sexual, and intensively delivered by the sounds and abstract lyrics.”
About the title track, she elaborates “Reborn is a song about the limerence to a person in the past, knowing clearly that nothing good would come out of doing it again, though still with hope it could work in a dream or a parallel universe.”
With Reborn, Pan is reemerging with the same new energy that the EP’s title might suggest. “Aristophanes was me writing in my bedroom and doing my own thing, whereas now after years of travelling around, what I want to do is more about connection,” she says. “As an artist I’m more mature. This new music is bigger and it has a stronger message.”
It’s perhaps no surprise that Pan needed a little more time to settle into herself and her art. Raised by a mother who “hated music” and refused to have it in the house, she recalls having almost zero access to pop culture until she moved out of the family home. Inspired by the storytelling of the Taiwanese rappers that she then began to listen to, the heavily male dominated scene at the time, however, made it almost impossible for Pan to broach. Undeterred, she turned to the internet, reaching out to producers on Soundcloud and collaborating with artists across the globe and outside of her bubble.
Reborn EP gets: 📷📷📷📷📷📷/10.
潘PAN – Reborn EP [Streaming]
