Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones

Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones

Amirtha Kidambi’s music is grounded by a deep commitment to social practice. The composer and her ensemble Elder Ones confront and resist systems of oppression with compositions of sonic activism, boycotting song structures in longform exploratory suites It’s the soundtrack of a tumultuous demonstration: of drums leading a persistent march and saxophones screeching in vocal defiance. The harmonium creates a textural landscape of drone for Kidambi’s voice to travel, while the double-bass anchors the chaos. We’re in the realm of free jazz, post rock and radical electroacoustic improvisation in which the vocalist weaves syncopation and dissonance, through new avant-garde anthems for people’s movements.

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