Japanese Breakfast, Paprika (live), UC Theatre, Berkeley, CA, November 7, 2021 (4K)

Japanese Breakfast play their song "Paprika" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, California on November 7, 2021. Paprika appeared on the band's third studio album, Jubilee, released in June 2021. Japanese Breakfast is an indie rock band headed by Michelle Zauner (lead vocals / guitar / keyboards) with Peter Bradley (guitar), Craig Hendrix (drums), and Deven Craige (bass). Joining them onstage were Adam Schatz (saxophone / keyboards) and Emily Wells (violin / keyboards). Zauner has said that "the song title comes from this Satoshi Kon movie, Paprika, and this sort of surreal parade that happens." =================== Paprika lyrics: Lucidity came slowly I awoke from dreams of untying a great knot It unraveled like a braid into what seemed were thousands Of separate strands of fishing line Attached to coarse behavior, it flowed A calm it urged, what else is here? [Chorus] How's it feel to be at the center of magic To linger in tones and words? I opened the floodgates and found No water, no current, no river, no rush How's it feel to stand at the height of your powers To captivate every heart? Projеcting your visions to strangers Who feel it, who listen, who linger on еvery word Oh, it's a rush Oh, it's a rush But alone, it feels like dying All alone, I feel so much I want my offering to woo, to calm, to clear, to solve But the only offering that comes It calls, it screams, there's nothing here [Chorus] How's it feel to be at the center of magic To linger in tones and words? I opened the floodgates and found No water, no current, no river, no rush How's it feel to stand at the height of your powers To captivate every heart? Projecting your visions to strangers Who feel it, who listen, who linger on every word Oh, it's a rush Oh, It's a rush Paprika written by Michelle Zauner / String & horn arrangements by Craig Hendrix and Michelle Zauner ==================== Japanese Breakfast official bio: From the moment she began writing her new album, Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast (@jbrekkie) knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee. After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time—a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor. Zauner’s first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; Psychopomp was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment, while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the grief she held from her mother‘s death and used it as a conduit to explore the cosmos. Now, at the start of a new decade, Japanese Breakfast is ready to fight for happiness, an all-too-scarce resource in our seemingly crumbling world. In the years leading up to Jubilee, Zauner also took theory lessons and studied piano in earnest for the first time, in an effort to improve her range as a songwriter: “I’ve never wanted to rest on any laurels. I wanted to push it as far as it could go, inviting more people in and pushing myself as a composer, a producer, an arranger.” She pours that sentiment into the album from the very beginning. Jubilee is an album about processing life and love in the quest for happiness, and how that process sometimes requires us to step outside of ourselves. Throughout Jubilee, Zauner is hardly fictionalizing her lyrics, instead pouring her own life into the universe of each song to tell real stories, and allowing those universes, in turn, to fill in the details. Joy, change, evolution—these things take real time, and real effort. And Japanese Breakfast is here for it. ===================== Jubilee live tour dates: Sept. 17 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom Sept. 18 - Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre Sept. 19 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue Sept. 21 - Ogden, UT @ Ogden Twilight Sept. 23 - Boise, ID @ Treefort Festival Sept 24 - Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall Sept. 25-27 - Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre Sept. 28 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom Sept. 30 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom Oct. 1 - San Francisco, CA @ Regency Ballroom Oct. 2-3 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theatre Oct. 4 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park Oct. 5 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl Oct. 7 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf Oct. 8 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre Oct. 9 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater Oct. 10 - St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall Oct. 11-12 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall Oct. 14-17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel Oct. 29 - Dallas, TX @ Studio at the Factory Oct. 30 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall Oct. 31 - Austin, TX @ Stubb’s (Levitation) Nov. 1 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger Nov. 3 - Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress Nov. 4 - Tempe, AZ @ Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium Nov. 7 - Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre Nov. 9 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades Nov. 11 - Sonoma, CA @ Gundlach Bundschu Winery Nov. 12 - San Luis Obispo, CA @ The Alex Madonna Expo Center Nov. 13 - Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Nov. 14 - Perris, CA @ Desert Daze Festival Nov. 15-16 - Pomona, CA @ The Glass House