Nana Adjoa Announces New EP A TALE SO FAMILIAR

Nana Adjoa has just unveiled her latest musical offering with a new song and news of a brand new EP. The new EP is titled A Tale So Familiar and the first track from it is called "DOOA".

Stereogum premiered the new song writing, "DOOA' is about getting older, so naturally it's moody and questioning. But Adjoa faces the tension of aging with a confidence that outweighs fear. The song itself has a breathy air, delicate and graceful. Her lyrics are honest and relatable, tracing the life of her grandmother amidst her own late-twenties discoveries of gray hairs and true love."

Nana tells us.... "I wrote this song when my grandmother was in her last years. She showed me the downsides of growing old: physical and mental decay and, in her case, great loneliness. This is a problem for a lot of elderly people in the western world. Waiting for the release of death."

She continues "This new EP, 'A Tale so Familiar', speaks to the downside of living a long life and growing old, the dark sides of love, and trying to make sense of these things in my relatively young age."

Nana Adjoa will make her US live debut this fall playing playing her own shows including Rockwood Music Hall as part of a Communion Residency and will also open for City of The Sun.

All dates below and more will be added in the coming months.

World Tour Dates

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Oct 7th - Communion Presents @ Notting Hill Arts Club, London

Oct 11th - Effenaar, Eindhoven

Oct 14th - Bitterzoet, Amsterdam

Oct 18th - Luxor, Arnhem

Oct 24th - Paard, Den Haag

Nov 6th - Communion Presents @ Rockwood, NYC

Nov 8th - The catalyst Atrium, Santa Cruz*

Nov 9th - The Independent, San Fran*

Nov 10th - The Moroccan, LA*

Nov 11th - Voodoo Room @ House of Blues, San Diego*

*supporting City of The Sun

Track List:

1. Sometimes Love Is Evil

2. DOOA

3. Simple Things

4. Simmer Down

Who Is Nana Adjoa...

Born in Amsterdam, Nana spent a portion of her childhood in the concrete environs of working class neighborhood the Bijlmer. "It's not the nicest part,"she says with trademark modesty of an area described by the local chief of police as a 'national disaster area'. Her father was a Ghanaian who'd came to Amsterdam in the 1980s, her mother Dutch ("very Dutch"). She describes her upbringing as fairly liberal until her parent's divorce and their subsequent embrace of Christianity. " The second part of my growing up was with some Christian values, but by this point I was getting to the age of making up my own mind," she says. " It was a bit 'too late' for me." She speaks of a rift it cased in her family, with the Christians (Nana's father, mother and brother) on one side and the non-Christians (Nana, her sister and the rest of the family) on the other.

Religion, along with questions about her own gender identity as well as growing up a half black person in a pretty white environment were all benchmarks that really shaped who Adjoa is and in turn her songwriting. "In fact, I think I still unconsciously use a lot of Christian ideas and metaphors in my music," she adds.

Nana was accepted to study jazz (electric bass and double bass) at the prestigious Amsterdam Conservatory, however the reality wasn't quite what she'd imagined."It was very much like school," she says, today. "We thought we wanted to go to the most difficult department, that we wanted to be the best, but it wasn't a very fun experience." A divide began to grow between the restrictive, theoretical compositions she was studying and the more melodic, free-flowing music she was playing outside.

Soon after she realized pursuing her own solo career and not academia was the direction for her she she formed a band and for the first time started recording her songs. The results are Down at The Root (Part 1) and Down at The Root (Part 2).

"It's a really nice feeling when people actually listen to the music you created somewhere," she says of an ever-growing fan base. "It's still crazy."

Nana will release her latest collection of songs this November when she drops her anticipated A Tale So Familiar EP.