Arushi Jain (IN) + Angst Sessions

RIYL: Kelly Moran, Sofie Birch, Indian tradition meets modular synthesis, Ana Roxanne, Suzanne Ciani, Nala Sinephro, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Oneohtrix Point Never, Caterina Barbieri, Emeralds, Pauline Anna Strom, Laurie Spiegel, Alva Noto, Julia Holter, Alice Coltrane, Midori Takada, Tim Hecker. Arushi Jain’s music lives in the tension between discipline and play, rigor and release. Rooted in modular synthesis and Indian classical traditions, her work pulses with curiosity, always in motion, always glimmering. Her 2024 album Delight—hailed by Pitchfork, The Fader, and The Guardian—marked a shift in Jain’s practice. Less concerned with goals and more with presence, the record radiates from a place of joyful openness. Jain doesn’t so much compose as converse: with memory, with the time of day, with the body. She calls it a “de-escalation”—a softening of ambition that allows space for surprise. That same sense of permission echoes through her earlier albums Under the Lilac Sky (2021), With & Without (2019), and just a feeling (2018), each a study in harmonic texture and time-stretched wonder. Lately, Jain has returned to that original feeling—genre-fluid, curious, untethered. She's writing lyrics, experimenting with gabber and dubby downtempo, riffing on synths like they’re guitars. Her ambient roots remain, not in form but in process: the patient layering, the ear for detail, the search for feeling. “My ears will select,” she says. “Soon I will have no one place to be.” It’s not a retreat from structure—it’s a return to possibility. https://arushijain.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/modularprincess

Support: Angst Sessions ANGST Sessions is a descent into slow, dark repetition — melancholic avant-garde carved from the voltages of Buchla and Serge modulars, stitched with the breath of old wooden synths and string machines like the Minimoog, EMS Synthi and Solina. Textures unfold in one-take rituals, layered into shifting timbres and bathed in tape delays, phasers, flangers and reverbs, echoing nature’s own harsh cycles of pulse, bloom, decay and oblivion. Mitt Inre Dekadans (My Inner Decadence) pushes that spiral inward, exploring the mind under the weight of absolute darkness, cold and hunger — a sensory exile in a sea grave, an untouched cavern, or the endless vacuum. Time dissolves, coordinates vanish, and the body strains against its limits while inner demons whisper through the static, pulling you closer to the end, yet somehow you keep moving.

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