Sango-6 is a mysterious figure whose essence confidently navigates the depths of Shibuya. She manages the club Violetta, wanders through underground venues, and harbors a profound love for Vaporwave in both music and visual aspects: VJing for club events and DJing that ventures into the realm of psychedelic trance, embodying both the floating sensation of web surfing and the street essence of Tokyo's underground scene. This immersive lifestyle guides her debut album "Astral Body" on independent label ๐น๐ฬด๐ฬด๐๐พ๐ ๐ฏ๐บ๐ผ๐๐บ๐๐๐๐ to sketch its own aesthetic lightly and independently of contemporary tendencies and gravitational pulls in vocals, production and sound design.
The reverberating sounds and voices bear the aesthetic traces of Vaporwave without directly inheriting the internet-centricity associated with the genre. Sango-6's work evokes the left-field of everyday life, offering a listening experience that seamlessly integrates into daily routines. "Astral Body" can be likened to the lights of a city seen from the window of a high-speed bus with four rows of seats, evoking a sense of a nearby yet distant lifeโa mutant variant of a singer-songwriter. A left-field vapor-folk experience.
Motifs like water droplets and sango-6's beloved dolphins give us a glimpse into her inspiration: the back catalogs of her predecessors such as Dream Dolphin, whose work in the late 90s and early 00s has seen renewed celebration as part of the new age revival that accompanied the emergence of Vaporwave, or via the inclusion of a cover of Osaka's mysterious lo-fi legend Daisuke Tobari, whose output around Y2K poses more questions than answers...
Audio mastering was done by Seaketa, whose work delves into the far reaches of post-internet musical expression.