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SANDUNES – Mumbai-based producer announces EP ‘Spare Some Time’ for May 22nd release via !K7

May 7, 2020
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SANDUNES

– Mumbai-based producer announces new EP 
– ‘Spare Some Time’ out May 22ndon !K7
– Hear “Fifty Percent (ft. Ramya Pothuri)” now

Mumbai-based producer Sandunes has shared details of her new EP, ‘Spare Some Time’, which is due for release on May 22nd via !K7.
 
The first track online “Fifty Percent” showcases Sandunes’ signature laid-back, sparkling production sounds accompanied by vocals from up-and-coming Mumbai singer/songwriter, 20 year old Ramya Pothuri
 
Commenting on the collaboration, Sandunes (aka Sanaya Aredeshir)said: “This song is very close to my heart. I heard Trey Anastasio in a documentary once say that once you’ve told a personal/emotional story about a part of your life through a song, it’s like you opened a tap and things begin to flow out of you into your writing. This song was my first attempt at bringing a lot of vulnerability into the writing and to use the music-making in a more evocative and emotional way, rather than it coming from an intellectual head space. It really wrote itself in an evening after I poured my feelings onto a keyboard. Ramya is pretty much my neighbour, and she recorded the vocals at my studio in a few hours one evening and it was a go!”

Sandunes’ sound draws a nuanced sketch of her colourful existence within India’s burgeoning creative scene of arts club, evolving dance music cultures and swapping tapes; a reality that is at odds with the one-dimensional typified Western view of India and Indian womanhood.

With inspirations that range from the experimental folk electronic music of Sudan Archives to jazz traditionalists like Dave Brubeck, Sandunes uses her sound as a means of rewriting false narratives and provoking new perceptions, explaining that “I feel like it’s very important for me to be prudent, but also celebratory about feminine freedom, as a working, performing, producing, musician from India”. 

Having previously collaborated with the likes of Anchorsong, Richard Spaven and other talented artists in Mumbai’s electronic music community, Sandunes’s penchant for collaboration is evident in forthcoming EP ‘Spare Some Time’. The EP follows last year’s ’11:11′ EP, which was also released on !K7.

‘Spare Some Time,’which includes four featured artists, was written and produced in 2019 predominantly from Sandunes’s home studio in Bombay. As a work it is a testament to the strength in vulnerability and according to the artist it’s an EP about “making room in our lives for love. For self-love, and softness, but mainly making room to fall in love by pulling down our walls”.

‘Spare Some Time’ channels a profound version of a Sandunes, who has brought down her walls and given us insight into her inner contemplations, fears and hopes, encouraging us to rid ourselves of our own boundaries and free ourselves of the constraints of reserve. The EP reinforces the idea that no man is an island and that “in being an island – we fall short, lacking courage to expose ourselves to uncertainty. We’re deprived in our isolation of the tremendous benefit that togetherness and connection brings.”

‘Spare Some Time’ will be released on May 22nd via !K7. Pre-order and streaming links can be found at https://K7.lnk.to/SpareSomeTime

‘Spare Some Time’ track list:
1. Love It (ft. Jbabe)
2. Burn Every Bridge (ft. Landslands)
3. Fifty Percent (ft. Ramya Pothuri)
4. Simple Thing (ft. IAMI)

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