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Austrian musician (born 1990) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg (born 5 April 1990).
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Anja Plaschg grew up in the Austrian village of Katzendorf, near Gnas, in southeast Styria, where her parents have a farm. She played the piano since age six, and when she was 14, she took up violin studies and developed an interest in electronic music. She attended the Graz Polytechnic for graphic design but dropped out at 16 and moved to Vienna shortly afterwards. There, she studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in the master class of Daniel Richter, but at 18, she dropped out again.[1][2]
After only playing a handful of concerts, she was already being dubbed a "Wunderkind".[3] In 2008, she portrayed the German singer Nico in the play "Nico – Sphinx aus Eis", by Werner Fritsch, in Berlin and Vienna, performing several songs in it, including "Janitor of Lunacy", from her first EP.[1][4]
Plaschg's first album, Lovetune for Vacuum, was released in March 2009.[5] It received excellent reviews and placed in the Austrian top ten. It also achieved chart positions in Germany, Belgium, and France.[6]
Plaschg's father died in 2009[7][8][9] from a heart attack.[10] During this time, Plaschg stated that she suffered "serious depression",[11] for which she was hospitalized.[11][7] The death influenced much of her second album, Narrow.[citation needed]
In 2010, she won a European Border Breakers Award for her international success.[12]
Her songs "Brother of Sleep" and "Marche Funèbre" were used in the soundtrack for the Universal Pictures thriller War Games: At the End of the Day in 2010. The song "Wonder", from Narrow, was used in the 2019 Belgian film All of Us.[citation needed]
In 2011, Plaschg wrote the song "Goodbye", together with Apparat. It was used in the final episode of the fourth season of Breaking Bad and later as the title song of the German Netflix series Dark.[13][14][15]
In 2012, she debuted as an actress, playing the role of the supporting character Carmen in the Austrian movie Stillleben.[citation needed]
Two of her songs, "Italy" and "Safe with Me", are used in the 2017 Italian film Sicilian Ghost Story.[citation needed]
Plaschg's third studio album, From Gas to Solid / you are my friend, was released on 28 October 2018. A music video for the song "Heal" was published on 7 August 2018. The track "Italy" has been used in the 2022 film Corsage.[citation needed]
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Discography
Albums
- 2009: Lovetune for Vacuum (Couch Records/PIAS Records) – Austria #5, Germany #47
- 2012: Narrow (PIAS Records) – Austria #1, Germany #53
- 2018: From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend (PIAS Records) – Austria #3, Germany #68, Switzerland #82
- 2024: Torso (PIAS Records)
EPs
- 2008: Untitled (4-track EP) (Couch Records/PIAS Records)
- 2009: Marche Funèbre (3-track EP) (Couch Records/PIAS Records)
- 2013: Sugarbread (3-track EP) (PIAS Records)
Singles
- 2009: Spiracle (7" vinyl) (Couch Records/PIAS Records) – Austria #45
- 2009: Mr. Gaunt PT 1000 (Couch Records/PIAS Records) – Austria #60
- 2009: Cynthia (Couch Records)
- 2012: Voyage Voyage (SOLFO Music)
- 2015: Mawal Jamar (SOLFO Music)
- 2018: Heal (PIAS Records)
- 2018: Italy (PIAS Records)
- 2018: Surrounded (PIAS Records)
- 2019: Safe With Me - Instrumental (PIAS Records)
- 2019: Surrounded (Planningtorock Remix) (PIAS Records)
- 2019: Drag Shift (Denovali Records)
- 2020: What's Up? (PIAS Recordings Germany)
Film music
- 2024: The Devil's Bath
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Filmography
- 2012: Stillleben (Still Life), as Carmen[16]
- 2016: Die Geträumten (The Dreamed Ones), as Ingeborg Bachmann
- 2024: Des Teufels Bad (The Devil's Bath), as Agnes
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