{"title":"Rachika Nayar","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rachika-nayar","title":"Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against the Dusk","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=282770104\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rachika.bandcamp.com\/album\/our-hands-against-the-dusk\"\u003eOur Hands Against The Dusk by Rachika Nayar\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe debut full-length from Brooklyn-based musician Rachika Nayar, Our Hands Against the Dusk, is animated by the experience of “touch\"—not just caress, but encounters, collisions, and the point of contact between worlds. Nayar composed the album over four years by processing her textured guitar playing with digital means and combining the resulting sounds with shimmering synthesizer crescendos, lyrical piano, and orchestral strings. Via these methods, the album synthesizes a range of genres—ambient, deconstructed electronic, neoclassical, even Midwestern emo and beyond. It's a shifting stylistic bent that reflects a queer life woven between ever-evolving identities, discourses, and spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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. Such titles reference a range of personal and cultural images—a Rainer Maria Rilke poem of great personal importance, an Indian mystic at whose Pondicherry ashram a family member had a moment of Hindu \"darshan,\" and other vivid motifs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Nayar, the album’s fluid but always deeply felt form is thus a way of translating that which could never be summed up\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e with static names, words, or feelings. 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NNA Tapes","offers":[{"title":"Dusk Red Vinyl  + Digital","offer_id":46252058018015,"sku":"LP-NNA-136","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cassette (With Digital Download)","offer_id":45567675597023,"sku":"CS-NNA-136","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":45567675531487,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (320 MP3)","offer_id":45567675564255,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/9256\/8543\/files\/rachika_-_hands.jpg?v=1720877397"},{"product_id":"heaven-come-crashing","title":"Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing","description":"\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2017849018\/size=small\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/rachika.bandcamp.com\/album\/heaven-come-crashing\"\u003eHeaven Come Crashing by Rachika Nayar\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeaven Come Crashing, the sophomore electronic full-length from Brooklyn-based composer and producer Rachika Nayar, finds the protean guitarist and producer pivoting from the ghostly netherworlds of her debut into vivid, fluorescent, cinematic maximalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Our Hands Against the Dusk, Nayar used her guitar as the primary source for sound design, mutating the instrument beyond recognition through layers of digital processing. Soon after, the album’s companion EP, fragments, demonstrated the types of raw guitar-playing that would be transfigured into those grander compositions—miniature genre sketches that touched upon everything from post-rock to Midwestern emo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeaven Come Crashing retains Nayar’s mangled guitar stylings but expands the color palette by looking not so much to the fretboard, as to the dance floor and the silver screen. Influences enter into the frame ranging from ’90s trance, to early M83, to Yoko Kanno anime soundtracks. With its M1 piano stabs, supersaws, and glimpses of Amen breaks, the album charts a luminescent space between 5 a.m. warehouse raves and the urban freeways of its cover image—romantic, nocturnal, and reckless in its velocity and emotional\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e abandon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere's a longing here to welcome and disappear in transcendent ideals and desperate passions—but alongside that, a drive to destroy one's own grandiose visions too. Within this conflicted relationship to its own theatrics, the album wages a war between surrendering to desire and incinerating it. Heaven Come Crashing invites the listener to revel within fantasy, before helping light the match to burn it down—one final embrace in the dream world before it shatters to pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NNA Tapes","offers":[{"title":"Black Galaxy Vinyl (with Digital Download)","offer_id":45567679693023,"sku":"LP-NNA-149X","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Digital Download (WAV)","offer_id":45567679627487,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (320 MP3)","offer_id":45567679660255,"sku":"","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/9256\/8543\/files\/Rachika_Nayar_Heaven_Come_Crashing.jpg?v=1720877093"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/9256\/8543\/collections\/1678372089.8333690166.jpg?v=1720882775","url":"https:\/\/shop.northern-spy.com\/collections\/rachika-nayar-1.oembed","provider":"Northern Spy Label Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}