JASPER SLOAN YIP RETURNS FIVE YEARS AFTER THE RELEASE OF HIS LATEST RECORD, STRANGE CALM/BLUSHING AUTUMN
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Today, celebrated Vancouver songwriter Jasper Sloan Yip follows his recent single, “love&worry”, with the new track, “everstranger”. The two songs mark his first new music since 2021’s Strange Calm/Blushing Autumn via Tiny Kingdom.
During his ‘down time’, Jasper (mostly) put music aside to start a family. Milestones came and went, time flew and Jasper's songwriting began to unpack all of it. The new single, “everstranger”, sorts through all of life’s debris to search for what’s most important.
“Do you remember being a kid, carried in from the car after a long evening drive, half awake or feigning sleep?,” Jasper says of the new song. “The car stops, parents whisper, doors open, your seatbelt is quietly unfastened, etc etc. I do, but it’s the kind of memory that isn’t actually a memory anymore. It happened so many times, each instance collapses into a single thing you just feel rather than remember.”
“I’ve probably carried my sleeping son in from the car at least once a week for the past two hundred and fifty six weeks, and it is, every time, the best part of my day. No matter what difficulty or frustration I may be carrying from the preceding hours, that brief walk from the car to his bed always makes it right.”
“‘everstranger’ is about losing the plot and finding your way back. We often suffer alone, needlessly, caught up in a things that don’t or won’t matter. I certainly do, but I’m really working on it (grinning-face-with-sweat emoji). ‘everstranger’ shares that experience, and it helps me remember what’s actually important when I need it most.”
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MORE ABOUT JASPER SLOAN YIP
In the intervening years since Jasper released Strange Calm/Blushing Autumn, his songs have trickled through the ether to reach new audiences. The collection amassed over 2.6 million streams, seeing regular additions to Apple and Spotify coffeehouse playlists, solidifying his place within Vancouver’s musical landscape.
“Gin Fizz” became a fixture on CBC Radio 2, and songs like “Silver Lining” and “Halcyon Dream” found their way into feature film and network television placements. Live appearances were scarce but noteworthy. He shared bills with the Weather Station, Aysanabee, and Haley Blais to name a few, and also toured Japan.
Keep your ear to the ground for more new music from Jasper Sloan Yip in the near future.