composed by, producer P.M. Tummala
design Common Name
mastered by Alex Inglizian
mixed by James Panepinto
Mastered At Experimental Sound Studio
Inspired in equal parts by Indian visual artists and architects like Raza, Gaitonde, Mohamedi, Doshi, and Rewal and the Hindustani, Carnatic, and Tollywood/Bollywood sounds of his childhood, he creates a sound companion to Indian modernism. While Bollywood composers from the '60s and '70s were known to inject western styles like rock, salsa, swing, Philly soul, and disco into their songs, Tummala re-imagines this tradition through a blurred lens of influences that span spiritual jazz, dub, musique concrète, Tropicália, ambient, and hip-hop/vinyl culture. With instrumentation that includes sampler, synthesizers, vibraphone, electric piano, and tape, he spins a dreamlike, lost-in-time collage of warped melodies and ghostly rhythms that plays as an alternate aural history of Indian soundtrack music.