START COMPUTER

It is time to START YOUR COMPUTER.
COMMUNICATION is already out on Spotify. Listen to the pre-singles now..! Pre-singles? Of what? Well, you will see. Stay tuned folks! Much love -Jasper
Release date 19-03-2021

hotline ep

HOTLINE EP is coming up next! This is the result of the jam videos i have been posting a lot on my instagram page. These are the result of experiments in a new direction in sound I have been doing for my upcoming album. I will fill these up with more songs over the coming weeks so be sure to check it out.
Listen to the first songs on Spotify now!

Shook music in space (LITERALLY)

It is a huge honour NASA astronaut Christina Koch mentioned me in a recent Spotify article about her groundbreaking space trip. ! ❤🎹🎶🌌

Q: Is there one song in particular that you would say you listened to most during orbit?

Koch: I listened to a lot of different playlists that my husband would make for me, but in terms of one exact song, there’s a story behind it. The song is called “Always” by the artist Shook, and it was one that my husband put on a playlist. It really stuck out to me because it has a line that says “always on my mind,” so it was something that resonated while we were apart for so many months.

Around last October, my husband and I had our anniversary. We’ve spent many anniversaries apart, unfortunately, but I wanted to make this one special. Since I couldn’t buy him a gift, I decided to learn how to play that song on the keyboard. We actually have a keyboard on the Space Station, and I am not musically inclined, but I listened to the song over and over again using Spotify. I was able to actually figure out how to play it between that and a little bit of help from my more musically inclined crewmate, Luca Parmitano. 

I ended up playing the song for my husband on a video chat that we did on our anniversary, and it was really special—probably one of the most special moments of my entire flight. And, interestingly, the very next day I had a spacewalk, and because I had listened to “Always” so many times in the days leading up to it, it was on repeat in my head the entire spacewalk.

Read the full article on Spotify Newsroom.

This is really incredible to me, and I am still a bit lost for words. To think the music I created in my bedroom has reached beyond earth, and into space! #shookalways .

Music for city and nature
Shook’s 5th album out now

The city during rush hour. A metropolis filled with people, towering skyscrapers and neon lights screaming for attention. Everything is pushed forward, towards the future, filled with purpose. The dazzling pressure and constant push make you appreciate those quiet places. Tiny unexplored alleys, rivers leading into forests, special places where the only sounds are from the leaves rustling in the wind and birds singing from above. City and nature are inseparable. Complementary. It is the balance between these two that speaks of the love of being alive. In Music for City and Nature, Shook navigates through this world. Searching for balance, peace of mind. He converts this battle to a work of appreciation for both harmonic sounds as well as electronic energy. 

Shook: “In this album I tried to document my emotional and mental state at this point in my career. It is inspired by the conflict between the energetic and busy city life and the calm, warmth and peace that nature gives. It isn’t a city ‘versus’ nature album though, it is about daily life existing in a gray area in between. I try to find a balance by connecting both sides. We can build a future in the city, but we must not forget that nature is our future.”  

With absolute devotion Shook has created an exceptional listening experience in which timeless influences of Hiroshi Yoshimura, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Steve Reich and Erik Satie are honored and thoughtfully integrated in his modern, energetic sound. Shook merges Japanese ambient and Indonesian gamelan with an uplifting mixture of electronic pop, jazz and funk. Inspired by city pop, techno pop and ambient Music for City and Nature spreads a new light on the contrasting balance between what we make and what we are.

Music for City and Nature is out now.
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‘MIND UP’ MUSIC VIDEO

LULLABY (LYRICS VIDEO)