Ami Dang - Parted Plains
Leaving Records LP 2019
Artwork by Nicola Ginelli
Edition of 500
1. Raiments
2. Bopoluchi
3. Make Enquiry
4. Stockholm Syndrome
5. Sohni
6. Auberjinn
7. Love-llesse
8. Conch and Crow
9. Souterrain
Ami Dang fuses sitar, voice, and electronics to create east-meets-west, ambient/trance music. On the all-instrumental album Parted Plains, she draws inspiration from South Asian and Middle Eastern folktales, specifically, the four tragic romances of Punjab, Sohni Mahiwal, Sassi Punnun, Heer Ranjha, and Mirza Sahiba; Flora Annie Steel’s Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India, and selected stories from One Thousand and One Nights. Galvanized by the Western interpretations of these stories, Parted Plains unfolds as a new sort of soundtrack for a yet-to-be written folktale that is neither Eastern nor Western, not traditional or contemporary--but somewhere in between.
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