With a strong sense of aesthetics and DIY hacking bravado, Air Chrysalis is both a musical duo and culture-jamming visual art project equally imprinted by analog and digital.

Sharing an appreciation for retrofuturism and hauntology, as the reference to the mysterious sarcophagus in Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 suggests, Stanley Chase III (vocals, keys) and Michael Powell (guitar, synth) began channeling their unified vision into a pastiche of misremembered nocturnal pop in the summer of 2019.