Amirtha Kidambi

• FOR THE FIRST TIME ON VINYL

As Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times, “the aggressive and sublime first album by the band Elder Ones, Holy Science, is a kind of gauge for how strong and flexible the scene of young musicians in New York’s improvised and experimental music world can be. At the center of it are drones and phonemes. The group’s leader, the 30-year-old composer and singer Amirtha Kidambi, holds forth behind a harmonium, the small keyboard instrument with hand-pumped bellows; it’s commonly used in bhajan, the Indian devotional-singing tradition that was central to her musical experience while growing up in a South Indian family.”

PERSONNEL:

• Amirtha Kidambi - vocals, harmonium, compositions
• Matt Nelson - soprano sax
• Brandon Lopez - bass
• Max Jaffe - drums

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Treta-Yuga ..... 20:31

• SIDE B
• 01. Kali-Yuga ...... 17:32