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Tombeaux

by Malini Sridharan

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    releases May 17, 2024

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Mote
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Rooftops
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Charon 03:58
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Plains 03:10 video
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5.
Rivers
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Down to Me
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Beam

about

Malini Sridharan’s Tombeaux is a first, and perhaps a new beginning. Though it proceeds from, and deals in, the ultimate end.

The seven songs of Tombeaux comprise the Brooklyn-based composer and multi-instrumentalist’s third full-length recording, and her first written and arranged for a large ensemble. Frustrated by the limitations of self-production and solitary home recording, Sridharan set out to create something sonically broader, featuring sitar, vibraphone, woodwinds, horns, strings, and piano. Tombeaux is richly textured and deeply felt, weaving medieval and classical influences into a distinct art pop tapestry that will be much loved by fans of Laurie Anderson, Bel Canto, Anna von Hausswolf, and Julia Holter, who produced the record.

The record’s subject is as expansive as the ensemble; each song is a discrete tale of a death, imagined by Sridharan and told in the first person. From reimagining the work of 16th-century Indian poet Mirabai to exploring Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea afterworld, The Dry Land, to writing about her own grandmother’s death, Sridharan teases out the varied nature of death, applying a broad range of historical and cultural lenses to this great inevitability.

Sridharan was raised by an Indian father who exposed her to Indian classical music and a mother whose passion for history, archeology, and medieval music informed and inspired her from an early age. Her upbringing in the woods of Michigan and high school years on the shores Lake Michigan perhaps further inspired her tendency toward reverie, imagined narratives, and the drama that unfolds between this shore and the next.

Though not intended as an exhaustive survey of ideas of death across cultures, Tombeaux’s scope is impressive, shot through with the feel of a book of short stories, or a performance of tales. It is enchanting and elegantly executed, sensitively shepherded by Holter’s production.

credits

releases May 17, 2024

Vocals, vibraphone, bells, sitar, bassoon - Malini Sridharan
French horn - Nikita Solberg
Trumpet - Kate Amrine
Euphonium - Chris Piro
Trombone - Julie Dombroski
Tuba - Heather Ewer
Oboe - Lily Pfeifer
Flute - Leia Slosberg
Clarinet - Ford Fourqurean and Allison Heim
Bassoon - Sara Schoenbeck
Cello - Lenna Pierce
Violin and viola - Concetta Abbate
Bass - James Gibson
Piano - Jon-Michael Reese

Production - Julia Holter
Mix and Master - Ryan Beppel
Design - Jules Evens
Photography - Roc Morin
Recorded by Lorenzo Wolff at Restoration Sound

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Malini Sridharan is a brooklyn composer exploring madness, inspiration, and devotion.

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