Review: In 2020, Nicolas Jaar composed Piedras for a concert at the Museum of Memory & Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, which honoured the many victims of Pinochet's dictatorship. The project evolved into Archivos de Radio Piedras, a radio play shared via Telegram between 2022 and 2023. In 2024, it became a 24-channel installation at MUAC in Mexico City. The music, partly attributed to the fictional Salinas Hasbun, explores themes of memory and identity. The play unfolds in a future with an internet blackout, where characters use DIY radio to mourn Hasbun's disappearance, with the unstable radio frequencies symbolising shifting truths. Now served up on vinyl, the album is a blend of ambient, found sounds, experimental rhythms and eerie synth design.
Review: Arushi Jain is a Brooklyn-based modular synth artist and Indian classical vocalist who draws on the traditional music of North India for inscription. She grew up in Delhi and has some seriously high level turning behind her including studying at the Ravi Shankar Institute in Delhi though she also studied Computer Science at Stanford University. After her debut album With & Without impressed back in 2019 she now follows it up with her second album Delight, also on Leaving. It is an intoxicating blend of East meets West with widescreen ambient and classical sounds defined by their exquisite melodies.
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