Araki is tagged as: swedish, indie, singer-songwriter, mellow, schlau machen Araki was born a long time ago. Everything began about three minutes into Vincent Gallo’s masterpiece Buffalo 66. In the intro, where Billy Brown is released from |prison, a lonely piano plays a few subtle notes along with some background noises. Very deserted, very ambient, very Brian Eno and very beautiful. Music that you can listen to for an eternity. Music that leaves it up to the listener to decide whether to be active or passive in a way that ordinary pop music doesn´t. Music with the purpose of remaining in the background, while you go on doing your everyday things. “True happiness is getting lulled to sleep by a slightly out of tune piano” Rasmus Kellerman tells us when we meet him in the end of 2002. “I just felt like I had to do something completely different from everything else I was doing musically at the time. I was tired of playing in a band and as a way of not getting to much of an asshole toward the other members of Music By Em, I had to create something that was entirely my own. Hence Araki. At first I set out to make ambient, instrumental stuff, sort of like a soundtrack to a non-existing movie. But somewhere along the road I took a detour”. Music By Em was formed in 1996 and called it quits late 2000. In 1998 they played at... Read More About Araki Biography...  Send Araki ringtones to your cell
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