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SAWARI ON

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The debut solo album of SAWARI ON, a Tokyo-based musician inspired by the Velvet Underground and CAN. She has performed in numerous bands while contributing to film soundtracks including the Sundance-premiering "Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter."

This album's unpredictable erratic rhythms and lo-fi guitars evoke delightful teenage angst while hinting at a paradise where mythical beasts live freely.

The album has been described by DJ MEMAI from Fallopian Disco Force as "experimental dream pop" that is full of childlike innocence.

Redolent of The Shaggs, Hope Sandoval, and Nico, the instrumentation on this album offers an uncanny aesthetic. It captures the horrors of girlhood with harps, mellotron, and satsuma biwa as well as other instruments and numerous field recordings of environmental sounds from Japan's urban spaces and nature - converging at times into ambient techno.

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Artist Profile

  • SAWARI ON

    SAWARI ON is a solo musician who builds songs through a hybrid process of live instrumental performance and computer-based sound design. She records acoustic guitar and organ as primary sound sources, combining them with digital processing to construct complete productions. Working in Logic Pro, she handles composition, performance, recording, sound design, and mixing in a fully self-contained workflow. Her signature approach integrates distortions inspired by phonographs and tape machines into melodic structures where time subtly slips. By avoiding predictable progressions and leaving traces of instability inside the arrangement, she creates songs in which nostalgia and unease quietly coexist. In live settings, she performs improvisational sets using microKORG and multiple effects processors. She regularly engages in real-time collaborative performances with other artists in Tokyo experimental music events.

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