Truly mesmeric, exquisitely beautiful, original, intimate, eclectic sounds are summoned up and simmer in this debut collaborative album project by the Brooklyn composers, producers and multi-instrumentalists Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith. Something about their self-described ‘wordless communication’ whirls up magical results, Keith envisioning her and Rachika's younger selves packing a satchel, holding hands, and daring one another to run away into a place of "wounds and wonder", only to discovering an amalgam of post-rock, glitchy indie electronica, neo-classical, and pop genres. This stirs a transportive experience by the quietly introverted pair, mixing piano with wide variety of other sounds, with richly interweaving vocals and intricate textures with guests including Julianna Barwick, Tujiko Noriko, Cassandra Croft, ASPIDISTRAFLY, Katie Dey, June McDoom and Ponytail's Willy Siegel. It’s an immersive, escapist experience from first to last track, but particularly gorgeous examples include the gently unfolding, then fast-spinning wonder of former Song of the Day Give-Upping with Juliana Barwick, a song that taps into a longheld Buddhist truth of clinging to past experiences as a source of one's own suffering, lush with buoyant piano melodies, fluttering vocals that appear to call from the other side of an “infinite knowingness space”. Others include the tinkling, intricately percussion and staccato strings of Blue Rags, Raging Wind featuring Amigone, the merry-go-round whirlwind, rippling woodwind arpeggio-rich joyous release of It’s Change with Siegel, Dey and Barwick, and the title track which features a celebrated video of trans people frolicking naked in the woods, inspired by the Sigur Ros 2008 video for Gobbledigook. From opener to whispering vocals and piano tinkerings of final track My Flickering Gift To You, very special and different album that will take listeners to very new places, physically, sensually and cerebrally. Out on the Domino Records imprint Smugglers Way.
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