Mixing orchestral, ambient, electronic beauty with desolate, sorrowful, piano
laments, Austrian producer-songwriter Anja Plaschg aka Soap & Skin, was billed
as a creative wonder when she emerged as an 18-year-old avant-pop sensation in
2008, subsequently building an impressive catalogue of dramatic torch songs.
Growing up on a farm in the countryside region of Steiermark, Plaschg was
classically trained in piano and violin in her youth and briefly studied at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the tutelage of Daniel Richter, before
pursuing music with the help of songwrit...