Let me introduce you to Shunkan, the moniker of New Zealand-based twenty year-old Marina Sakimoto. If you fancy getting to know a new lo-fi, shoegazy artist that sounds like the product of some genetic experiment involving Pavement, Waxahatchee, Vivian Girls, My Bloody Valentine and Tegan & Sara, you will want to be familiar with Shunkan.
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‘Shunkan’ translates from Japanese as ‘moment’ or ‘in a moment’, and Sakimoto holds the idea close to her heart. ‘It’s how I want to live from now on,’ she says. ‘Not try and plan out the next 10 years of my life.’ The idea is close to that of Abby Gundersen and her ’never-ending struggle to remain in the present’ (which we wrote about here).
Shunkan’s debut EP, Milk, Honey & Blood, is set to be released on Art is Hard Records on the 5th May. You can pre-order it here.
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P.S. Head over to her Bandcamp page to download SUMMERBLONDE: a collection of demos and homerecordings that can be yours on a pay-what-you-can basis. I mean, come on, she even writes songs about The X-Files:
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