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Happy Camper announces its long-awaited return in 2017 with a brand new album: Gravity. First single ‘Easy Way Out’ released on Excelsior Recordings.
‘Easy Way Out’ represents a significant stylistic shift for Happy Camper, without sacrificing that unmistakable combination of pop levity and powerful subject matter. "‘Easy Way Out’ describes that moment when you lose your own intuition. Something that appears safe and ordinary at first, then suddenly feels very foreign and strange. Within these moments, it becomes harder and harder to assess your next move. Whereas someone from the outside looking in often has a better read on things,” says Job Roggeveen, founder and songwriter of Happy Camper.
Happy Camper is a band and multimedia-project founded by Dutch musician, producer, composer, animator and graphic designer Job Roggeveen. With an extensive cast of guest musicians Happy Camper released two albums brimmed with gleaming and sonorous pop, tunes heavily inspired by chansons and film soundtracks. Subsequently, Happy Camper manifested into a comprehensive, awe-inspiring audiovisual live experience, comprised of up to twenty musicians.
Roggeveen also founded world-renowned animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke, responsible for heart-rending short films such as the Academy Award-nominated A Single Life. Naturally, the music of Happy Camper often finds its genesis in the soundtracks Roggeveen composes for their films. Particularly the use of analogue synthesizers and orchestral strings permeates through, as well as a distinct contrast between both heavy and playful imagery.
One characteristic of Happy Camper has always rung true: pop music serves as a deeper extension for evocative visuals and vice versa. Gravity, that will be released later this year, once again illustrates this symbiotic relationship. The word ‘gravity’ in itself has more than one meaning: it can be a tangible force of nature or something that carries a lot of emotional, spiritual or communal weight. Funny enough, the idea was spawned when Roggeveen worked painstakingly on a series of frame-by-frame 3D prints depicting one of his animations.
Listen to Happy Camper's Easy Way Out: Spotify • Soundcloud • YouTube • iTunes
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