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Flamango Bay
Flamango Bay
country: USA
genre: Indie
styles: Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Pop Rock, Power Pop
Fishing For The Sun
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San Francisco band FLAMANGO BAY sign to 0800-MOSHI-MOSHI and share new single "Fishing For The Sun".
'"Fishing for the Sun" is like finally coming to terms with and acknowledging life’s hard realities. You were ignoring something and now you’ve finally gone through what you needed to to be able to face it. Now you’re trying to figure out your place in the world moving forward.
"In the case of Ikaika (Gunderson), their gender identity was the thing they were ignoring and fishing for the sun was how they began to look at it head on and unpack it. They wrote this song during a very isolated part of quarantine, when a lot of people including themself were questioning and contemplating their identity. In astrology your sun sign represents your identity, so fishing for the sun could mean trying to figure out who you are."
Formed in high school, Ikaika Gunderson, Dash Goss Post, and Georgia Manou’s soulful fuzzy guitar pop is intertwined with the trio’s shared experiences of living in the Bay. Their music is borne of their immersion in the west coast’s indie and punk community, as well as their activism in fighting for positive change within it. Happily enough, it also slaps hard.
"The Bay Area’s essence has seeped into every thought we’ve had and all of the art we’ve made” the group say. “Our schooling taught us a lot about activism and critical thinking skills. The accepting environment of the Bay made us feel comfortable enough to start an indie rock band. Indie and rock music (and most music in general) are straight, white, cis, male dominated fields, but in the Bay Area there was a scene trying to change that which gave us the confidence to pursue that path.”
"Fishing For The Sun" was written by Gunderson amidst a gender identity crisis, and it was the supportive environment cultivated by the prominent genderqueer and transgender element of the group’s local music scene that allowed them to explore feelings they suggest they may have pushed away for a long time otherwise.
“If not for these activists and people of marginalized identities normalizing being themselves, we wouldn’t have had the groundwork to express ourselves and our art.”
Flamango Bay are currently preparing their debut EP, slated for a 2022 release (more news to follow).
0800-MOSHI-MOSHI is a new digital-only Moshi Moshi Records imprint for showcasing fresh talent. Initially set up as a means to share work by musicians made during lockdown, the format proved to be an excellent way to get music out quickly, without many of the limitations imposed by a more traditional label set-up. It harks back to the heady days of the Moshi Moshi Singles Club and so, in the same spirit, post-lockdown it continued as a vehicle for developing artists.
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