Disiniblud release new single “Give-upping (ft. Julianna Barwick)”
Disiniblud
Release new single “Give-upping (ft. Julianna Barwick)”
Announce London album playback
+ Q&A with Kate Hutchinson for June 5th
Announce Fall North American & UK/EU Tour, Including NYC, DC, Chicago, Philadelphia’s Making Time Festival, Pitchfork London, Paris, Berlin
Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith’s collaborative debut album Disiniblud out July 18th via Domino’s Smugglers Way
Disiniblud, the new collaboration between the composers and multi-instrumentalists Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith, will release their self-titled debut album on July 18th via Domino’s Smugglers Way, and today the duo shares new single “Give-upping (ft. Julianna Barwick).” The song taps into a longheld Buddhist truth of clinging to past experiences as a source of one's own suffering. Lush with buoyant piano melodies, Barwick's fluttering vocals beckon to the listener from the other side of an “infinite knowingness space”- “If you could give up / Something good could happen / For once if you let it.”
Watch the “Give-upping” visualiser here.
Stream “Give-upping” here.
“Give-upping” follows the previously released tracks “It’s Change (ft. Willy Siegel, Katie Dey & Julianna Barwick)” and “Blue Rags, Raging Wind (ft. Amigone),” which have won praise from Gorilla Vs. Bear (“goosebump-inducing”) and Hearing Things, who wrote, “A swirl of heavenly vocals, enormous beats, zippy synths, chiming guitars, and more, Disiniblud is as epic as a Sigur Rós opus and as intimate as a cherished childhood memory.” Disiniblud, which features further guest appearances from Cassandra Croft, June McDoom, ASPIDISTRAFLY, and Tujiko Noriko, is available for pre-order on limited edition first pressing on carnelian orange color vinyl, standard CD and cassette with bonus remixes. Pre-order here: Dom Mart |Digital.
Today Disiniblud also announce an album playback and Q&A with Kate Hutchinson at London’s Marquee Moon for Thursday June 5th. Tickets are available to purchase through RA here.
They also announce their North American and European fall tour, including headlining dates in Brooklyn, DC, Chicago, Paris, and Berlin, as well as previously announced festival appearances at Philadephia’s Making Time and Pitchfork London.
DISINIBLUD ON TOUR
5th June – Marquee Moon – London, UK
21st June - Emerging Music Festival – New York City, NY
12th September - National Sawdust - Brooklyn, NY
16th September - L’esco - Montreal, QC
18th September – Lilypad – Boston, MA
20th September - Making Time - Philadelphia, PA
22nd September - Sleeping Village - Chicago, IL
20th October - Holocene – Portland, OR
21st October - Substation - Seattle, WA
23rd October - Grey Area - San Francisco, CA
24th October - 2220 Arts – Los Angeles, CA
5th November - Pitchfork Music Festival London - London, UK
8th November - Simple Things - Bristol, UK
9th November - TWH - Manchester, UK
13th November - Le Botanique - Brussels, BE
15th November - Petit Bains - Paris, FR
17th November - Colosseum - Berlin, DE
19th November - MS Stubnitz - Hamburg, DE
20th November - Hus7 - Stockholm, SE
22nd November - Huset - Copenhagen, DK
Tickets
Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith meet on complementary but seemingly disparate musical grounds. On her 2022 breakout LP Heaven Come Crashing, Rachika departed from her usual ambient guitar in favor of maximalist synths, sub-bass, and flickers of Amen breaks. Her distinct fusion of post-rock and electronica earned her accolades as Pitchfork's Best New Music, on several best of the year lists (The New York Times, Stereogum, Fader, NPR, Paste, GQ, Bandcamp,etc), and as the opening act on tour with M83. Nina, meanwhile, is best known for her DIY approach to neoclassical music, as evident on her 2019 debutMARANASATI 19111, which received praise from Gorilla vs. Bear, Bandcamp, and The Line Of Best Fit. Its delicate medley of piano, flute, voice and modular synth is used explore a personal history marked by community tragedy and paranormal incidents. She expands into new territories on her forthcoming work, incorporating sound installation (an eight-foot tall rain apparatus) and intricate vocal arrangements sung by collaborators like Julie Byrne, Barrie and Qur'an Shaheed. Nina and Rachika’s combined artistic strengths exalt together on Disiniblud.
"The imagery [of the album] for me is like standing together in the abyss of our memory and reckoning with both the ineffable wonders and atrocities of our life experience," says Nina, "like we’re holding and protecting each other through that process and finding a way to take both the light and dark.”
“It’s not about healing and moving past the darkness,” clarifies Rachika.
Nina adds, “It’s taking both with you in the satchel and carrying it with you everywhere you go… that’s the only way you can really metabolize it.”
This protection Nina refers to can be as uplifting as encouraging one another to re-enliven a part of their musical repertoire—for Rachika, it might be math-rock guitar abilities at which she shrugs that Nina insists on coaxing out of her; for Nina, it could be her vast hard drive of abandoned modular synth sketches that Rachika inspires her to put to use again. Nina describes this in metaphor like showing off an outfit she used to wear all the time three years ago that now feels outdated, but then "the other one of us sees the jewel there and brings it out." Sometimes, protecting each other through the process can also be, Rachika explains, "us both arriving at the studio in tears, holding each other for 10 minutes… but instead of picking apart whatever struggles with words, we'll just start playing—and then a door opens for both of us."
"I think we encourage each other to do things outside the ‘identity’ of our solo projects, especially musical abilities from our deep pasts we've put aside for feelings around gender or shame," Rachika says. "But it’s through the other’s eyes we get to bring it somewhere new."
Above all, their practice emphasizes comfort and trust before engaging in childlike play—a state of being that sheds bounded self-consciousness in favor of open imagination. Rachika envisions this as she and Nina’s younger selves packing a satchel, holding hands, and daring one another to run away into a place of "wounds and wonder," only to discover an unforeseeable magic in an amalgam of post-rock, glitchy indie electronica, ambient, and pop genres in this co-created realm.
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