This is your chance to discover Pascale Cheron, a remarkable singer-songwriter with a unique jazz vocabulary who has just released her debut 24-track album, Anna Called. After two years of writing, recording, and mixing entirely on her own, Pascale offers you a deeply personal and immersive musical experience. The title single, “Anna Called,” is already available on all streaming platforms, while the full album can be found on Bandcamp.
If you enjoy live music and explorative sounds, you’ll be excited to know that Pascale is beginning the Experimental Bangs Tour this spring and summer. Alongside her longtime friend and collaborator Sophia Eliana, she’s set to perform across the East and West Coasts of the United States, starting May 10th in Bar Harbor, Maine. The tour concludes at the Underground Music Festival in Denver in late July. What makes this tour special for you is the inclusion of local bands with musicians Pascale connected with through TikTok and friends, promising a genre-fluid live experience rooted in connection, improvisation, and discovery.
You might find it fascinating to learn about the story behind Pascale’s name. She shares, “My name was Anna, but my mom changed it to Pascale when I was born. She tells me my name has a letter for each one of my aunts—a perfectly consonant string of them all. I dedicate this album to the women who shaped my life. The sound of my name. I wrote, recorded, and mixed each song on this album over a period of two years. This album is for Anna.” You embark on a sonic journey through Anna Called, exploring identity, reinvention, and the lives of the women who shaped her.
The album itself moves through serene ambient landscapes, soulful vocal improvisations, and dreamy experimental textures. You’ll encounter a sound that balances intimacy with expansiveness, layering meditative rhythms and expressive bursts of emotion. Each of the 24 tracks unfolds like a memory—fluid, surprising, and deeply personal—allowing you to connect with the music on multiple levels.
With Pascale’s impressive background, you can appreciate the depth behind her artistry. She is not only an accomplished singer but also a composer and producer, a rare combination that enriches your listening experience. Having recently graduated from UC Berkeley’s Society & Environment and Music programs, Pascale hopes to support environmental and social activism through her original music and collaborative artistic projects.
If you seek atmospheric and emotive music, critics have praised Pascale’s work as having a “striking atmosphere … where emotional power and dreaminess meet” (Various Small Flames). Her style has been described as hauntingly ethereal with an improvisatory approach to melody—qualities that will surely resonate with your love of nuanced and expressive sound.
Since 2018, Pascale has written over 75 songs and released three albums along with various singles. You may have the opportunity to catch her live or hear her work in notable venues such as the Alien Disko Festival at the Volkstheater in Munich, Germany; the Center for New Media and Audio Technologies in Berkeley; the Monterey Jazz Festival; and the Sonoma Bluegrass Festival. With Anna Called and the Experimental Bangs Tour, Pascale Cheron invites you to experience her unique musical world—one that celebrates creativity, connection, and transformation.
When did you start writing music?
I started improvising on my grandparents’ piano whenever we visited them in Seattle. When I started kindergarten, my mom bought me an electric keyboard and signed me up for piano lessons. I was pretty obsessed with the piano. I didn’t practice as much of the assigned material as I played my own music, and I guess my own compositions were quite pleasant. The first song I ever wrote with words was called “Storm Bird.” “Open your eyes little bird. What can you see, what can you see?”
What do you enjoy most about being an artist?
To write songs that reflect exactly how I feel and for that to reach people—that is the greatest gift. To take them somewhere else, somewhere wonderful and strangely real. My collaborators have become my best friends. Through music I have found a beautiful community of people who inspire me to keep working toward realizing my dreams. As an artist I have no choice but to stay inspired by life’s challenges. I see every life experience as an opportunity to grow into the person and artist I have always wanted to be.
What is the best advice you have been given?
Ninety percent of life is showing up on time, working hard, and being a kind person.
Is there a city or venue that holds special significance to you, and can you share a memorable experience from there
This past December I had the opportunity to travel to Munich, Germany for the Alien Disko Music Festival as the keyboardist in the Oakland-based dream pop band Organii. I was invited by my production and engineering mentor Mike Walti ,who with Alien Transistor Records, had just put out his record “Babilonia,”in which I was a featured vocalist. It was truly such a wonderful experience. The band consisted of musicians from all over the world, whom Walti had recruited for his record, as well as musicians that his label had found for the festival performance.
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Who would you most like to collaborate with?
My dream collaborator would have to be Willow. I deeply admire her music—it is pure magic. She is endlessly creative, and her music breaks so many barriers across genres. She is one of my biggest inspirations.
Silly:
What do you think of garden gnomes?
I’ve been told that I resemble one, especially on stage. I am short, maybe a little guarded and self-contained but protective of my inner garden— my light, my joy, my love, my music!
What makes you nostalgic?
The smell of laundry. It reminds me of certain people I’ve been close with.
How would you sell hot chocolate in Florida in the summer?
How would I sell hot chocolate in Florida in the summer? Oh boy. I could set it up like a challenge where if people solve a puzzle before their partner’s hot chocolate gets cold, they will get a complimentary ice cream. Maybe it’s a bit ridiculous, but it could be fun.
Tell us about your most unusual talent or party trick.
I can do your tarot with any deck of playing cards. I have been known to be scarily good at reading for my friends and family. I am no professional, but I always appreciate the opportunity to give a reading to anyone who is open to it.
Which fictional character do you wish was real?
One of my favorite fictional characters has to be the Rainbow Fish from the children’s book written and illustrated by Marcus Pfister. I adore the story and the central theme of love and sharing. Rainbow Fish discovers happiness through sharing his “silver scales” with all the fish in the sea. I wish more people could be like Rainbow Fish!
What would be a good theme song for your life?
A good theme song for your life would be “Zappa Dream” by Stephen Steinbrink. Steinbrink’s lyricism is perfectly abstract and existential, which is how I feel and think a lot of the time. There is “magic on this earth in cats and clouds and cars.” I have “been a river rock and a drop of rain and with any bit of luck [i’ll] be those things again.”
