Jennifer Touch - Aging At Airports

SHIPPING MID SEPTEMBER

The idea for the record title came to me before the music even existed. I was hanging out at airports so much while traveling from show to show. It felt like wasting a huge part of my lifetime while waiting to get to the next gig, the next show to celebrate music, art and timelessness. This waiting and wasting, the slow ticking time at the gate are such a crazy contrast to what I want to do as an artist: Creating non-stop and building things that last forever. But I have to accept that I will fade, my creative power, my face and my body will fade. Every second, waiting.

As a (performing) artist everything feels like a weird contrast. While you want to be true to yourself and authentically speak from your soul, you´re also expected to stay fresh, young, easy and powerful forever. Especially as a woman - but actually it's true for everyone in an entertaining „art business." To fit in to the frame that the world holds for you and the wish to break free from that. Which would mean you're accepting your own fading.

This is the theme of the record. The true and honest emotions (Voice, channelled-like lyrics) and the artificial surroundings (Synths, digital sounds, clean mixing) try to reflect that. This theme is quite dramatic and therefore also funny. The record doesn't want to be serious and super dark but still comes from that deep place of my soul that has to handle this stretch.

Aging on Airports plays with the ambiguity and ambivalence of being true to ourselves. Whatever that means for everyone..