‘Dusty Kid is the Pink Floyd of Techno.’ A Ben Bohmer loving friend remarked to me while we were enroute back to our houses after our first techno concert. We had just witnessed the beauty of electronica made from emotion, ambition and heart. For a few hours during the course of that set the rock and roll loving hippie in me had subsided.
Even when the sun was on the rise, I wouldn’t budge… I danced in a frenzied unison of booze, smoke, sweat, shouts, sore feet and throat. The tempo rising, the bodies bouncing, hands high, butts low. The flickering lights announcing that which is otherwise inexpressible.
Melodic Techno rising, rising, rising and the beat dropping without the listener realizing. In Anyasa’s music the crescendo is never fully actualized. An endless build up occurs without reaching an expected actualization. A hope for finality pervades the listener but all pleasure is essentially delay and the orgasm isn’t in the finality but in the quest for it. Those who say electronic music isn’t deep need to check out Anyasa’s ‘Flectere‘.
The EP begins with Only You and immediately I find myself bobbing my head, tapping my feet and waiting… For something to occur… For something to happen…
But subtlety is the optimum crescendo and that’s exactly what Anyasa possesses. Subtlety, groove and style. A sound that is a cohesion of Ben Bohmer and Kerela Dust with an intersection of the sounds of Indian Classical. Subtlety is healing and Healing is also the next track on Flectere.
‘Why am I waiting for a miracle to pull me out?
Slowly, I am healing.’
”I am done waiting on a miracle,
To pull me back.’
A teacher once told me that a story should have a beginning, middle and an end. It confused me for it was obvious but most art fails to unite the three together. Not Anyasa’s. The beginning leads to a middle and the middle leads to an end. The three elements collide to a super subtle perfection in Flectere.
Falling begins with the jangling of an instrument that slowly finds itself merge with the vocals of a woman before the drop occurs. It’s catchy and methodical. There’s nothing too wrong or right about it. It’s the perfect middle.
Kimia is a RAGE song. You party or workout to it. Maybe, go on a bender. It’s my favorite track on the EP. The layers, sounds, vocalizations… It’s such a fine song that it would make any listener turn into an admirer. It makes me dance hard, push up more. The pages of a book nearby flutter… The song rises…
Anyasa hasn’t dropped an EP. He has essentially dropped an immersive set experience for his listeners. Melodic Techno meets Indian Classical in Anyasa’s work and a new genre gets defined.
Feel the Silence is a great closer to the EP. DJs could take notes from this heavyweight signed to Anjunadeep who has proven that his music is here to linger and rise.
Feel the Silence encapsulates the soundscape after a party when most have gone but some still want to dance. It’s so richly textured that one wishes to touch its soundscape.
The song drops to a certain stillness near the three-minute mark. The listener feels the silence of that stillness linger… The song rises, rises, rises…
The soundscape after a party when most have gone but some still want to dance…
I remember my friend asking me. ‘Do you think such artists must exist in India?’ As we headed out of the club to reach the nearest chemist to grab some ORS, I had said, ‘I don’t know.’
My friend, now I do. Fans of Dusty Kid, Ben Bohmer and Kerela Dust will be gratified.
