ELISION by Niranjan Raghu
"Can you picture what will be / so limitless and free?" — I heard this lyric first by Nico, sung in her 1974's Peel Sessions. And it stuck. Since then, I've searched to find every rendition including the original by The Doors, and found all of them wanting, for different reasons. First impressions do count.
This line has informed my thinking for as long as I have created. I've worked on many, many projects where this line has been a point of tangency, but never the focus. Until now.
Elision is the ghost of an eternal scream from the deepest wellspring of pain, trapped in a transient life amidst opulent decay, written into the deepset cracks of soaring architecture. It is also the closest to how I picture music: limitless, and free.
I encourage you to go into it with an open mind. And tell me: what did you find?
Tracklist
| 1. | Elision! | 5:00 |
| 2. | Implied by | 5:30 |
| 3. | an elided lament, | 5:00 |
| 4. | found within | 4:00 |
| 5. | a vaguely recollected dream | 6:00 |
| 6. | from deep trenches, an ululation | 3:00 |
| 7. | that goes on forever and ever and ever in kindness! | 4:00 |
Credits
Written, composed and produced by Niranjan Raghu
Fretless bass by Roshan C Machayya
Samples:
Arivom Aayiram TV
Nico - The End
License
All rights reserved.
Writing through alternating episodes looped through a single reel of analog film-mind. This convolution is a reflection of the other–of transient life, opulent decay, soaring architecture. These hallways are an invitation to be resilient, an invitation to be kinder than you were yesterday, but not as kind as you will be tomorrow.
The Hexagon Sun will dawn on us.