Mojo (UK)

Arushi Jain

- Andrew Male

★★★★

Under The Lilac Sky LEAVING. DL/LP/MC

Brooklyn-based composer blends Hindustani classical with modular synth patterns. Arushi Jain spent her first 18 years in India. For the past decade she’s lived on America’s East and West coasts. “I feel like I’m in both [countries] at the same time but in neither,” she said in a recent interview. “[Thinking] where do I exist?” Blending centuries-old Hindustani evening ragas – intended to be performed between sunset and midnight – with West Coast new age synth modulation­s, Jain has created what she calls her “music of inbetweenn­ess”. Coloured by her hypnotic, indistinct vocals, pointillis­tic keyboard patterns and deep bass pulses, the feel is simultaneo­usly

unmoored and melancholy, impression­istic and contemplat­ive, freedom as a kind of rootless uncertaint­y. It also has a strange effect on the listener’s concept of time, 40-plus minutes of ethereal half-light patterns seemingly gone in a few blissful moments.

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