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She taught herself how to play the violin there. She was introduced to a world of live music in New York City, which influenced her decision to move to Australia at 15. “I now realise that home is where my soul belongs.” “I wanted to go as far as possible, because I thought that would be better,” she says. She was afforded rare freedom: having had restless, itchy feet all her life, Shimada left Japan at 14 to live in New York City, to gain exposure to a world she had never encountered before. They ran off a solar power system, had a veggie garden and threw parties in the school playground. When she was 10, her parents moved the family to a sustainable artistic community in an abandoned primary school to start an artist warehouse. Growing up in a housing commission in Shibuya, Tokyo, she experienced a “very humble community living”. Shimada was born and raised in Tokyo to creative parents. It was like an archive, a diary of where my mind has been.” “When lockdown came and all these thoughts entered my head, I just started recording my voice as a note on my phone to clear my mind,” she says. It is the result of several years of tinkering: spending time as a session musician on different influential Australian artists’ projects, Shimada has also been an active member of Melbourne’s thriving underground live music scene. The lyrics revolve around themes of home, diaspora cultures and finding pleasure and escapism in a world intent on denying it.
Making this album was maybe really necessary for me.” ‘Home ≠ Location’ is cathartic, a lifetime of angst exhaled onto eight tracks. “After writing ‘Home ≠ Location’,” Shimada says, “I don’t feel that I need a location to call home anymore. Lithe and loose, marrying incisive political commentary with deep introspection, the album folds in blends of house, bass and candied keys to showcase why Shimada is one of Australia’s most exciting talents. Across eight dizzying tracks, ‘Home ≠ Location’ contains lean, skittish skeletal beats upon which Shimada’s shimmering falsetto climbs. Home is in music, a space to share it with you,” the Tokyo-born, Melbourne-based artist sings on the album opener. For Elle Shimada, the concept of home is ever-changing it is the current which flows through her debut album, ‘Home ≠ Location’, released on Australian label The Jazz Diaries.
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