Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against The Dusk (Dusk Red)

Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against The Dusk (Dusk Red)Our Hands Against the Dusk, the debut full length from Brooklyn based composer Rachika Nayar, is a kaleidoscopic release built from textured guitar loops, shimmering synthesizer crescendos, lyrical piano and orchestral strings that have been digitally processed and threaded through multiple genres, including ambient, emo, electronic, and contemporary classical. The albums fluid but deeply felt throughline represents Nayars navigation through the many

The Bela Session is UK post-punk pioneers Bauhaus' debut studio recording made in 1979

each one hot and hornier than the one before

2 and ‘Colours and Shapes’

and even a little bit of the guitar noir found on Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtracks for David Lynch

and every minute of it can be heard and felt on these ten funky and highly evocative tracks

the central chorus of the lead single “I believe in you

The album is dedicated to the late artist jaimie branch (who was a protégé of Mazurek’s)

The music matters more than any of that

the songs are universally resonant

obsessive deep-divers

so they have grown into the most consistent purveyors of art-rock of their generation

and acoustic instruments through conflicting emotional territories as a means of personal catharsis and abstracted self expression