Listen to Ami Dang's folkloric & transcendental album 'Parted Plains'

Monday Sep 30th 2019

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Ami Dang takes her listeners to higher states of mind through meditative sounds. The Baltimore ambient musician fuses sitar, voice, and electronics to create east-meets-west transcendental music. On her latest solo record 'Parted Plains', she draws inspiration from South Asian and Middle Eastern folkloric narratives. Dang creates a dreamscape full of overpowering and beautiful sitar melodies, underscored by subtle, poignant synth lines that can evoke both soothing peace and dangerous tension.

'Parted Plains' unfolds as a new sort of soundtrack for a yet-to-be-written folktale that is neither Eastern nor Western, not traditional or contemporary, but somewhere in between. Listen below.

<a href="http://amidang.bandcamp.com/album/parted-plains">Parted Plains by Ami Dang</a>

"With no percussion, Parted Plains is an amorphous listening experience, one which billows out and provides the atmospheric ambience Eno describes. Yet, it is also much more than that: a self-assured and challenging collection, which would have no place in a spa or hotel lobby, and is all the better for it." - The Guardian

Ami Dang performs at Le Guess Who? on Saturday, 9 November. Also performing at the festival are a.o. Ustad Saami, Asha Puthli, Fatoumata Diawara, Ayalew Mesfin & Debo Band, Aldous Harding, Jenny Hval, Efterklang, William Tyler & Mary Lattimore, Träd, Gräs och Stenar (Träden), and many more.