The 'Charon' EP blends minimal wave synths, trip hop beats, and shoe gaze guitars with samples of traditional Chinese instruments such as the pipa and guzheng, and whispered poetry juxtaposed against Chinese opera vocalisations, all mixing together to create an art rock crossover between East and West, the traditional and the contemporary. Each of the tracks can stand alone or fit together to tell a story with lyrics that reflect upon Chinese mythology relating to the red spider lily, which are described in translations of ancient texts as flowers that grow in hell and guide the souls of the dead along the path to reincarnation. Meanwhile the title of the EP borrows the moniker of the ferryman of hades, who serves a similar purpose in Greek mythology in helping lost souls journey through the afterlife.

The EP itself came about after Guiguisuisui had been touring their Shining Soundscape show for three months in Europe and China. As a consequence the band chose to create a record that fit this performance: flowing and layered, rooted in traditions but progressive at the same time, and something that could be presented as a story along with live artwork and performance. Created in a matter of weeks, the band chose to self record and produce the EP in an effort to not overthink the pieces, but rather to preserve the raw inspiration and improvisations, evident in not only the music but the visual accompaniment also.

卡戎是鬼鬼祟祟乐队最新发行的一张ep，也是反流行脑波谱文化厂牌发行的第一张专辑。如果用已知的流派风格来形容这张专辑，我们可以用，极简潮，神游舞曲，自赏和梦幻流行来定义。但它却又不止于此，专辑将低吟的人声和民族诗词唱诵，与极简神游电音结合。融入中国传统民族乐器琵琶与古筝采样，将东西结合引申传统与现代的反思。这所有极具视听氛围的元素在你的耳朵里交织，描绘出一副似真似幻的画面。而这张“耳朵可以看”的专辑也诉说了一个东方世界众所周知的神话故事，关于彼岸花的盛开，黄泉路与三生石上的千年爱恋。巧合的是在西方希腊神话里也有着极其相似的故事，船夫卡戎如黄泉路上的彼岸花般在地狱引导死者迷失的灵魂转世，而卡戎也成为了此张专辑的名字。

鬼鬼祟祟结束了2018年欧洲巡演之后开启了全新的即兴氛围音绘演出：闪灵氛围艺术企划，而这张专辑也是在艺术企划长达三个月的巡回演出之后创造的作品。鬼鬼祟祟选择用闪灵氛围艺术企划来表达他们全新的音乐世界观：将电子氛围音乐与冥想吟唱结合现场绘画和艺术交互的表演形式，而这一切都是即兴的！表演没有固定的歌曲编排，在流畅的氛围背景乐之上一切都是随机选择，而观众也可以自主选择成为演出的一部分，加入到即兴歌唱舞蹈和绘画的艺术世界里。闪灵氛围艺术企划看似随机即兴的艺术表达却创造出这样完整立体交互的演出形式，正因为这种“冥冥之中看不见的安排”，我们以得以联结不同背景，不同语言，不同国界，不同种族人们的艺术观念和精神故事。

这张专辑的录制也是那么随机即兴，鬼鬼祟祟在十天的时间里，在排练室即兴弹唱完成了整张专辑的录制。没有修改和后期修饰，所有都是最原本的发生。这样的创作目的是阻止在创造过程中的过度思考，更多的关注当下的声音，保留当下原始的灵感和即兴创作。

关注当下，这一切不仅体现在我们的音乐上，也体现在我们的视觉与我们真实的生活当中。

"Shining Soundscape": www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnkalX6_Mzg&t=12s

Shining Soundscape (SS) is an artistic performance that combines both live digital video painting and improvised ambient music, to create a backdrop over which performance and meditative chanting combine with electronic music, in a meeting of minds and cultures.

During the Shining Soundscape performances a combination of digital synthesizers and samplers in combination with live instruments run through effects processors, while chants and meditative mantras and soaring melodies over the top, while simultaneously playing with the shadows she casts by positioning herself in front of the projector, overlaying onto the scene she is painting in real time onto the back wall of the stage thanks to the Tagtool app. In this sense the whole performance environment becomes a canvas for the artists to create a saga using shining light, shadows, sounds, costumes and movement, with the audience being wrapped in the atmosphere conjured. What’s more at key points the audience help make decision about which direction the performance will go in.

Shining Soundscape combines painting, music, and performance into a brand new form of artistic expression that creates a marriage between delicate brush strokes and the soaring melodies. Guiguisuisui firmly believe in the future development of SS projects, and the limitless possibilities that a combination of painting and music can open up for future forms of art performance.

Shining Soundscape (简称SS)闪灵氛围艺术是鬼鬼祟祟艺术组合全新的艺术音乐表演形式。将数码影像绘画与即兴氛围音乐同时结合的艺术表演，由Digital LIVE PAINTING即兴绘画，加上冥想唱诵与氛围电子乐组成。
在SS演出中，Dann Gaymer 利用电子合成器与大量自制编排的效果器与自创的滑板单弦吉他制作氛围音乐。而南瓜子在氛围音乐当中冥想唱诵，与此同时南瓜子用数码绘画的方式将自己的影子与绘画创作投影到环境空间，墙面，以及画布上。一边唱诵一边绘画，在极具光绘闪耀的影子与强烈的氛围音乐中，给观众带来极具灵性，视听共鸣的艺术氛围感受
Shining Soundscape 将绘画音乐结合的全新氛围艺术表演，在全球也是全新的一种将绘画与音乐同时结合的表演形式。鬼鬼祟祟艺术组合坚信SS项目的未来发展，绘画与音乐同时存在的表演，可以开拓出未来艺术表演形式的无限种可能。