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On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Matt Evans! Among the many awesome things Matt gets up to, he’s got a new record from his duo with Amirtha Kidambi, Neti Neti, called “Echo of Being / Grace in Rot.” We talk about all the things surrounding the creation of the project and the […]
“Grace In Rot” heaves itself into existence like something pulled from deep soil, all roots and raw nerve. Neti-Neti, vocalist Amirtha Kidambi and percussionist Matt Evans, let this track emerge from their most depleted state, and the result carries that specific gravity of exhaustion transmuted into flame. Evans describes how it “heaved its way out […]
Neti-Neti, the duo of Amirtha Kidambi and Matt Evans, describe their sound as lo-fi ritual music, and it’s spot on. Not only that, but a transcendent thread spins outward from the music’s fractured core, tying it together in cathartic waves. Neti-Neti, as translated from Sanskrit, means “it is not this, it is not that,” and […]
The fierce scream of now. That’s how an article in the Jazz Right Now blog described an Amirtha Kidambi and Luke Stewart live set, and that’s as apt of a description of the music produced by these two creative musical stalwarts as any. Kidambi’s voice runs through the entire cycle of human emotion, from calm […]