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This eagerly-awaited new album is a liveable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeath is Home\u003c\/i\u003e is ultimately a manifesto. It's Devi's most revealing work to date and a direct result of her personal evolution and ongoing quest. Growing up under the shadow of isolation and abuse, she formed her practice as a healing method, using it to neutralize her past and recreate an alternate, more hospitable reality - beyond the human condition. Her feelings were compounded when she tracked down the whereabouts of her father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she never knew. Devi was informed he had died young, but rather than perceive this as a binary, through mourning, she realized that his existence had already offered her a lifeline and a refuge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevi's words and productions reach out to a place where weightlessness has the power to dissolve the corporeal world's manufactured terror of death. Without this trepidation, life's boundaries and limitations fall away. \"Burn the flesh, a Deva's born,\" she sings over tense, pneumatic kicks on 'Not Defined by the Visible'. Her voice is contorted by electronic processes, but the meaning is human: to reach the holy, we must shed our skin. The narrative that guides the album unfurls with the plasticity of an open-world videogame, a space where one can unravel the dogma of life vs. death. On 'Lick Your Wounds', Devi reveals her deepest trauma, pacifying it with rousing, ritualistic rhythms and melancholic pads. \"Vapors of violence remain in my broken bones, intoxicate my DNA,\" she invokes. \"I'll lick my wounds and heal at night. I'll take over.\" She extends this invitation to anybody tuned in to her signals, providing lodging for those that crave it. Birth is virtual. Death is home. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houndstooth","offers":[{"title":"Gold LP","offer_id":50388424556875,"sku":"2162720","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50388420919627,"sku":"2162719","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a3043568843_10_ee33bfdf_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726341937"},{"product_id":"s-l-f-versions","title":"S.L.F. Versions","description":"\u003cp\u003eHoundstooth present \u003ci\u003eS.L.F. 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Devi has always used her art to push against cultural presumptions, so it made sense to assemble the initial framework for the piece from some of her acclaimed back catalogue, meshing it with new compositions and reworking everything with orchestral elements that follow Devi's radical metaphysical and theoretical guidelines. It's best described as a twenty-minute \"mixtape\" that embodies the connections between the concert hall, the club and the sacred ritual - or even a demonstration of the orchestra's hidden potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by her Himalayan heritage, Devi has been exploring the entrancing sonic application of monastic practices such as throat singing for many years, as well as developing psychoacoustic methods. This led her to perceive sound as a way of expanding brain activity - something that also plays a shrouded role in the world of chamber music. Applying this to the orchestra, she began thinking about each instrument as a discrete frequency range, searching for its ethereal properties rather than fixating on an object saddled with cultural baggage. Using the density, amplitude and vibrational impact of the sounds in unison, Devi was able to summon the club environment, seizing that space's inherent power - Devi was making orchestral rave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo versions of the score are included on the release, one orchestrated in collaboration with Robert Ames and conducted by André de Ridder, performed on October 29, 2021 with the BBC Concert Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall which was commissioned by Elizabeth Alker for Unclassified Live, and the purely electronic version - the synthetic backbone of the composition. Both are very different, and listened to together highlight the transformative power of instrumentation. The result is like a purge of history and hierarchy, with tools of colonization hollowed-out and fashioned into new shapes. 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Devi tackles dense subjects on the album, confronting metaphysical constructs as well as political ones. Amongst a myriad of topics, the album includes comment on the role of media and consumerism, anthems for collective mental and spiritual resistance and R'n'B incantations about burning the ego and finding inner peace. The ten tracks wax and wane, providing a moving landscape of interconnected themes and experimental techniques. Using sound and its vibrations to create a sense of healing and awareness, Devi's production dilutes and skews traditional formats. Crafting vortices of haunting sounds from her own vocals and production, her work is deeply self-reflective, yet simultaneously taps into the collective consciousness in order to awaken our senses. 2LP - The vinyl is cut and mastered by Matt Colton. 180 Gram heavyweight double vinyl LP.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houndstooth","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50493559636299,"sku":"393689","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/41906351-9f57-4089-8f6e-61115615a8ba_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727698869"},{"product_id":"dna-feelings","title":"DNA Feelings","description":"\u003cp\u003eAisha Devi releases her second album \u003ci\u003eDNA Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e on Houndstooth. No one on this planet sounds like Aisha Devi. Her voice is her most powerful tool in a repertoire that includes thumping beats and rave stabs, seraphic and guttural throat singing, mystical linguistics and corporeal sonics. Her music is spiritual and her live shows are transcendent experiences. She is a rebel and a radical alchemist who is breaking down barriers and traversing dimensions with her art. Born by the Swiss alps with Nepalese-Tibetan heritage, a transversal of cultural and spiritual identity was forged, guiding both her personal and creative process as a non-conformed seeker. Devi applies meditation techniques in her approach to production and performance, channeling metaphysical research, ritualistic practice and healing frequencies into an alternate club paradigm. 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