Our Hands Against The Dusk (豆瓣)

表演者: Rachika Nayar
流派: 电子
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: CD
发行时间: 2021-03-05
出版者: Rachika Nayar
唱片数: 1

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https://rachika.bandcamp.com/album/our-hands-against-the-dusk
　　The debut full-length from ambient-electronic composer Rachika Nayar, Our Hands Against the Dusk, is both kaleidoscopic and inventive, but far from cerebral. In mid-2019, the Brooklyn-based artist chose the cover image (a video still of her hands entwined with a friends’) from an old collaborative project. Al... (展开全部) 　　https://rachika.bandcamp.com/album/our-hands-against-the-dusk
　　The debut full-length from ambient-electronic composer Rachika Nayar, Our Hands Against the Dusk, is both kaleidoscopic and inventive, but far from cerebral. In mid-2019, the Brooklyn-based artist chose the cover image (a video still of her hands entwined with a friends’) from an old collaborative project. Along with its title lifted from a Richard Jackson poem, the image of “touch” references deeply (inter)personal experiences that animated the album over the four years it was written: not just caress, but encounters and collisions.
　　Her compositional process similarly begins with a moment of touch: her fingers on the fretboard. Songs are built from guitar loops that are then digitally processed into endless new shapes as they are combined and threaded through multiple genres and emotions.
　　Nayar grew up exploring musical worlds ranging between modern composers, Midwestern emo, uplifting trance and beyond. The diverse influences are visible on longer tracks such as “Losing Too Is Still Ours,” which extends from rippling guitar figures and keening vocals to methodic, marching strings. The song title stems from a Rainer Maria Rilke poem of great personal import. Other songs wind through their own images and cultural iconography..., forming a poetic web. The ghostly hazed "Aurobindo," for one, references an Indian yogi at whose Pondicherry ashram a family member had a moment of Hindu "darshan."
　　For Nayar, the album’s fluid but always deeply felt form is thus a way of translating that which could never be summed up with static names, words, or feelings. It is her way of navigating the many communities, musical and human, through which she’s passed as a trans feminine Indian-American. Rejecting the easy reduction of her project to an “identity politics narrative,” though, she takes that understanding as one of many in a stream of perspectives that shapes her life, and her music suggests the same.
　　To that end, Our Hands Against the Dusk mines the flux and discontinuity of experience as fertile ground. Nayar’s debut invites us to join alongside it in thinking beyond metanarratives, as musical and emotional histories touch in its twilight space and refract into a multifaceted whole. In that endeavor, Our Hands Against the Dusk is an embrace and a hope.
　　The album will be released March 5 on cassette and digital, via NNA Tapes.  <a>more</a>releases March 5, 2021
　　
　　Composed, Mixed & Mastered by Rachika Nayar
　　Vocals on “Losing Too Is Still Ours” by Yatta
　　Cello on “No Future” by Zeelie Brown