Anja Plaschg
| Soap&Skin | |
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Anja Plaschg aka Soap&Skin at the Waves Vienna Music Festival & Conference 2011.
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | Anja Franziska Plaschg |
| Born | 5 April 1990 |
| Origin | Austria |
| Genres | Experimental, neoclassical dark wave, dark ambient, sadcore, martial industrial |
| Years active | 2006-present |
| Labels | Couch Records PIAS Recordings Shitkatapult SOLFO Music |
| Website | Soapandskin.com |
Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg (born 5 April 1990).
Anja Plaschg grew up in a small village called Poppendorf (near Gnas) in south east Styria), where her parents have a farm. She has played piano since she was six. At the age of 14 she began 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 dropped out again.
Musicians like Xiu Xiu, Cat Power, Björk, Nico, Aphex Twin, and composers like Sergei Rachmaninoff or Arvo Pärt have had a great impact on her music.
After only playing a handful of concerts she was already being dubbed a "Wunderkind." In 2008 she played 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.
Her first album, called Lovetune for Vacuum, as released in March 2009. It received excellent reviews and placed in the Austrian Top 10. The album also achieved chart positions in Germany, Belgium, and France. Music journalists have already claimed to see in her a new star of Austrian pop. In 2010 she won a European Border Breakers Award for her international success.
In 2010 her song "Mr. Gaunt Pt 1000" was used in the television commercial for Ford's Mondeo. In the 2010 French film "Mes chères études" (also known as "Student Services"), the song titled "The Sun" plays during the credits. Her tracks "Brother of Sleep" and "Marche Funèbre" were used in the soundtrack for Universal Pictures thriller War Games: At the End of the Day in 2010.
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