Tanuja wanted this to be a hip hop tune, but it ran away into something more ethereal. Impossible to pin down: like the sea or the sky or the country itself.
We made this record as part of a residency in Hikkaduwa – and in this track we've used samples from a recording we made of Subathra Subramaniam, one of our fellow residency artists, singing karnatic ragas. Suba is Tamil Malay. Tanuja is Sinhalese Sri Lankan. Both women are British.
Sounds created from:
Bass Drums – hotel drumming (Kandy), tuk tuk sound system (Hikkaduwa)
Snare Drums – fishmarket (Hikkaduwa), Perehara whips (Kelaniya)
Hi-hats – birdsong (Udawalawe national park), Sunday market metal scales (Hikkaduwa)
Percussion – perehara whips (Kelaniya), train, fishmarket (Hikkaduwa), Mask Museum workshop hammers, passing lorry (Ambalangoda), peacock (Udawalawe national park), child shouting and chatter (Katharagama)
Bassline – child shouting (Katharagama)
Melody tones – Sunday market traders (Hikkaduwa), Mask Museum workshop chatter (Ambalangoda), birdsong (Horton Plains), karnatic singing (Hikkaduwa), bread van (Colombo)
Intro – tuk tuk conversation (Hikkaduwa)
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