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The Living World's Demands

by Ami Dang

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“Weaves impressions of ancient stories with modern sounds… Every detail and twist passed down through the generations [with] a deep spiritual resonance”
Pitchfork

“Like experiencing the glacial lassitude of a one-hour raga compressed into four-minute movements....A self-assured and challenging collection”
The Guardian

Hailing from Baltimore, Punjabi-American sitar player, songwriter and ambient musician Ami Dang unites the disparate worlds of Indian classical music and dreamy synth-infused song composition on beguiling new album The Living World’s Demands.

Envisioned as a lament to the challenges to which humanity has subjected the world and itself, Ami Dang’s newest album builds on the floating, blissful ambience of 2019’s Parted Plains and the vocal-led, pop structures of 2020 collaborative release Galdre Visions (a bona fide ambient supergroup also featuring Green-House and Nailah Hunter). The Living World’s Demands is an immensely evocative and expressive collection, just as complex, nuanced and precious as the living world in its title. Within are themes of trauma, survival, resistance, desperation and righteous vitriol, responding to greed, fear and injustice, yet the music is often euphoric, disarming and breathtakingly beautiful. Lilting sitar lines sparkle about an unpredictably broad spectrum of synthesis; Indian classical percussion rattles and snakes through its drum programming. And atop, Ami’s astonishing singing voice - with lyrics of English and Punjabi - deftly weaves her two worlds together with silken threads of both contemporary and traditional textures.

Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang has studied North Indian classical music (voice and sitar) in both New Delhi and Maryland, and she also holds a degree in music technology & composition from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. Following in the footsteps of artists like Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass, she seeks to advance the sound of contemporary experimental, pop, and electronic music with the sounds of South Asia—through vocals and sitar, ragas, and sampling. She has collaborated with Animal Collective, William Cashion (of Future Islands), James Acaster, Thor Harris—to name a few. She has performed onstage with Beach House, black midi, Grimes, Lower Dens, Florist and more. The Living World’s Demands is a co-release between Phantom Limb and LA’s Leaving Records.

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released November 4, 2022

All work composed, performed, produced, recorded, and mixed by Ami Dang. "Betting on the Bull" co-produced by Slag Ralden

Sanṯahu Man Pavnai Sukẖ Baniā (Unstruck Sound) ਸੰ ਤਹੁ ਮਨ ਪਵਨੈ ਸੁ ਖੁ ਬਨਿਆ written by Kabir, early 15th century (from the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Sikh scripture)

Album art and animations by Phoebe Frances

Mastered by Alyn Sclosa

“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”
- Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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Ami Dang Baltimore, Maryland

Amrita “Ami” Kaur Dang is a South Asian-American vocalist, sitarist, composer and producer from Baltimore. Her sound blends elements of North Indian classical, noise/ambient electronics, beat-driven psych and experimental dance pop.

[Photo Credit: Micah E Wood]
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