Ķæ P. Rujhaan - Nadiyaan

Released: June 20 

Nadiyaan is a stunningly immersive experience comprised Oleg of field recordings carefully stacked atop one another. There’s quite a bit of what one would expect in such a composition, but it’s really the way in which they are combined that make the experience so immersive. It never feels like you’re in a single places as you listen through. It’s done in a manner that makes it feels as though you’re in so many different places all at once. There’s the various birds that open up the experience among the ambient noises of the wind and atmosphere along with this odd “choppy” kind of sound that feels like our microphone was errantly scraped against a pants leg. But there’s also at the same time a familiar drone of the city noises. These noises come more to the forefront later on, but mostly stay in the background. 

The movement of the experience is odd as well. With the sound of the natural world that open up the hour long track, it seems as though we will stay mainly in this realm. But things suddenly become much more sparse and quiet as the sounds suddenly fall away and we go underwater. Or at least that what it sounds like as the steady bubbling of a mic underwater comes in and takes over. Once this subsides, we can hear the blend of the natural and the man-made world come into fuller contact. Rickety wheels rolling over uneven concrete, soft clacking and thudding, gurgling water flows - all of it coalesces into this slightly uncanny soundspace that only provides small glimpses of the world it has constructed. It is comforting but also perplexing as it makes a full image impossible to make out but allows you just enough to see the fragments. It’s a wonderfully layered experience that catches the ear and lets it go just as suddenly by its end.