{"title":"Rachika Nayar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachika Nayar is a Brooklyn-based musician. With her unique blend of electronic and experimental sounds, she has captivated audiences worldwide. Her music is characterized by intricate layers of guitar loops, ethereal melodies, and hypnotic rhythms. Rachika's compositions are deeply introspective and often explore themes of identity, memory, and connection. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of genres including ambient, post-rock, and shoegaze, she creates immersive sonic landscapes that transport listeners to another realm. Whether performing live or in the studio, Rachika's passion for pushing boundaries shines through in every note.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a classically trained guitarist turned electronic artist, Rachika brings a fresh perspective to the world of music production. She seamlessly combines traditional instrumentation with cutting-edge technology to create her signature soundscapes. Through her use of effects pedals and looping techniques, she is able to build richly textured compositions that unfold organically over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to her solo work, Rachika has collaborated with various artists across different mediums such as dance and film. 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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 abandon. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegarding this interpretation, Nayar says: \"I both love and feel so wary of melodrama, because its inherent nature is to be uncritical. It's just unabashed emotion taken at face value. And isn't that so fraught when feelings originate with structures you can't control, that you maybe even feel at war with?\" Within this conflicted relationship to its own theatrics, the album wages a battle between surrendering to desire and incinerating it. \u003ci\u003eHeaven Come Crashing\u003c\/i\u003e 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":"Gold | LP","offer_id":50434920153419,"sku":"1168102","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Gold LP","offer_id":50434920612171,"sku":"2045901","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/733aeb4e-b1ee-4cd7-a570-fe7ea4dbf612_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1726896700"},{"product_id":"fragments-17","title":"Fragments","description":"\u003cp\u003eRachika Nayar’s \u003ci\u003eFragments\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of sonic miniatures constructed from guitar loops and in the familiar comforts of her own bedroom. First released as a limited edition cassette by RVNG Intl’s Commend There imprint in 2021, fragments (expanded) adds an entire new side of previously unreleased music to the collection, which has been newly mastered by Rafael Anton Irrisari.While growing up and developing a relationship with the instrument and her capabilities, using delay pedals to improvise layered guitar pieces evolved from a practice into a deep source of self-exploration and restoration for Nayar. On Our Hands Against the Dusk, Nayar’s debut album released earlier this year, the guitar is present but processed, synthesizing with the surrounding instruments and often transforming beyond recognition. Like Our Hands, the form of fragments remains complex, informed by virtuosic, dexterous guitar playing, but the collection of sound retains a sense of primitivism, and represents a new experience for Nayar in sharing such an intimate part of her creative practice.Nayar views this practice as a constant companion. The cyclical, meditative quality of exploring loop-based expression is a means for Nayar to cleanse her creative space, and provide a psychological architecture in her home where she can “access my heart and cultivate some kind of internal movement in times of stasis.” The pieces on fragments also pay homage to influences on Nayar’s guitar technique, ranging from Pat Metheny’s interpretations of Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint to emotive Post\/Math-Rock crossovers like Don Caballero and Toe.fragments is not only a document of Nayar’s domesticity and the preliminary writing processes that evolve into song, but also a measurement of memory and spiritual realignment. Much like the metaphorical models of past homes through which Ted Kooser wanders in his essay Small Rooms in Time, Nayar uses fragments to preserve the moment, both fleeting and indelible, through its connection to place, in unchanging, raw detail. fragments provides an intimacy between Nayar and those listening in parallel spaces, activating our collective past and shared unconscious experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rvng","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50506887332171,"sku":"2015750","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Fragments_Expanded_b0755ad7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727832088"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_c3e6c740_thumbnail_4096_d85d0478-93b3-4279-b0ce-6d9359f75f14.jpg?v=1726896669","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/rachika-nayar.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}