THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Now based in the hills of Southern Spain, the enigmatic project from Sakura Murakami was born during the height of the summer in 2020. Multi-instrumentalist Marukami draws on a multitude of influences from across the world, to create a tropical realm of sweltering, and almost meditative psychedelia for the mind, body and soul.
Debut single Cast Away itself is a heady vitamin-D inducing delight of a cocktail, delving into the exotic sounds of eastern psychedelic-funk, along with western surf-rock. The drooling sun-drenched balmy beach ballad — akin to modern-contemporaries Khurangbin, Tommy Guerrero and Yìn Yìn, is soothing instrumental groove-laden goodness to get lost to during the ice-cream melting summer days and nights. A wonderfully glorious heatwave anthem.
“All the tracks are felt out on the spot, in a sort of duel writing and recording process that runs side by side in the same moment until the song is finished,” Murakami says. “Each layer is being jammed out and recorded, then edited on the fly. The title of Cast Away in this instance reflects the sound of the track as imagined by me. Like mini-soundtracks almost.”
