Abstractions in Meera, by P.M. Tummala

Abstractions in Meera

by P.M. Tummala

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1.	Meera Post-Awakening 05:22	buy track
2.	It's Still Around Us 11:08	buy track
3.	Nighttime Modern 04:31	buy track
4.	Beginners in Strata 09:20	buy track
5.	Kumari 03:39	buy track

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P.M. Tummala is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who explores identity and false memories on his new album, Abstractions in Meera. Inspired in equal parts by Indian visual artists and architects like Raza, Gaitonde, Mohamedi, Doshi, and Rewal and the Hindustani, Carnatic, and Tollywood/Bollywood sounds of his childhood, he creates a sound companion to Indian modernism. While Bollywood composers from the '60s and '70s were known to inject western styles like rock, salsa, swing, Philly soul, and disco into their songs, Tummala re-imagines this tradition through a blurred lens of influences that span spiritual jazz, dub, musique concrète, Tropicália, ambient, and hip-hop/vinyl culture. With instrumentation that includes sampler, synthesizers, vibraphone, electric piano, and tape, he spins a dreamlike, lost-in-time collage of warped melodies and ghostly rhythms that plays as an alternate aural history of Indian soundtrack music.

Abstractions in Meera will be released by Monastral on October 29, 2021 as a limited edition cassette and digital download.

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released October 29, 2021

Composed and produced by P.M. Tummala
Mixed by James Panepinto
Mastered by Alex Inglizian at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago
Design by Common Name, New York

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