Rachika Nayar's aural universe is ever-expanding, as heard on her new album 'Heaven Come Crashing,' out now on NNATapes. Meet Paste's August pick for the Best of What's Next:
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“I started playing guitar when I was 10, and it remains my primary tactile relationship to music. But my relationship to music has gone through a lot of different iterations, from making synth-pop with my close friends in high school to making Drum & Bass breakdowns in Ableton,” Nayar begins.
From those initial tinkerings, Nayar produced “Losing Too Is Still Ours,” a seven-minute, two-movement composition produced in collaboration with the ethereal Brooklyn-based artist Yatta Zoker. Completing that track showed Nayar that she was onto something—that perhaps she should continue. Spinning and reweaving guitar phrases with accompaniment from piano, cello, synthesizer and more became Nayar’s calling card on, which she released on NNA Tapes in March 2021.
“There is something about rave spaces that feels like the peak form of musical performance for me,” Nayar identifies. In that space, she sees the performer not as the embodied center of attention so much as a spectral vibe curator, ideally invisible to the event’s attendees. The imageless, figureless, subjectless performer crafts a social space where exploration, interconnectedness and ego death can proliferate in the fog, music and lights.
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