past/lives

can you remember a sound from your childhood? can you play it to yourself in your memory?

past/lives is a sonic offering to memory.

in this track, i trace my childhood in a music school tucked within the heritage folds of jaipur’s old city – where echoes of riyaaz, kathak, and birdsong mingled beneath a banyan tree. built on the regal gravity of raag darbari, the piece layers melody with memory, and speculation with sound – invoking voices from distant windows and long-forgotten courts through fragments of my own voice. past/lives is a homage to my gurus; both reflection and invocation – a reminder that what’s behind us never truly disappears.

the past… lives. the track is a way of returning.

past/lives is part of ‘algorave india compilation tape I’, a community-driven compilation album of algorithmic music from india.