{"id":2388069,"date":"2026-04-24T21:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2388069"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:32:55","slug":"the-homesick-release-new-song-esperanto-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-homesick-release-new-song-esperanto-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Homesick Release New Song &#8220;Esperanto&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dutch art-pop trio the Homesick (Elias Elgersma, Jaap van der Velde, and Erik Woudwijk) are back with a quirky little single &#8220;Esperanto.&#8221; The new song arrives alongside the announcement that they signed to independent Austrian label Siluh Records.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Esperanto&#8221; is wacky in a new wave\/Devo way. It has rubbery synths and bouncy vocal shouts. The title is a reference to an &#8220;international language&#8221; created by L.\u00a0L. Zamenhof\u00a0in the late 1800s. His goal was to create an approachable universal second language and build a &#8220;community of speakers.&#8221; Elgersma shared that the band played &#8220;Esperanto&#8221; live for over a year with improvised lyrics. <\/p>\n<p>He continued: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>I always just sang &#8221;Esperanto&#8221;, no clue why. While recording I came up with a short little lyric about Nostradamus. For some reason Nostradamus reminded me of Lejzer Zamenhof,\u00a0the\u00a0guy who invented\u00a0the\u00a0language of Esperanto. What they both have in common is that they both became famous historical figures with kinda useless stuff; inventing a pointless language and predicting nonsense. In\u00a0the\u00a0studio (my livingroom) we added layers to make it more disco-y and Jaap came up with a guitar line at\u00a0the\u00a0end in\u00a0the\u00a0style of Echo and\u00a0the\u00a0Bunnymen.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"\/><p><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch the video for &#8220;Esperanto&#8221; below. <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Homesick - &quot;Esperanto&quot; (official music video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ixqxgoljf9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch art-pop trio the Homesick (Elias Elgersma, Jaap van der Velde, and Erik Woudwijk) are back with a quirky little single &#8220;Esperanto.&#8221; The new song arrives alongside the announcement that they signed to independent Austrian label Siluh Records. &#8220;Esperanto&#8221; is wacky in a new wave\/Devo way. It has rubbery synths and bouncy vocal shouts. 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