Pataal Yatri
Unfiltered, unhinged and authentic.
Pataal is the lowest of the seven realms beneath the earth. Pataal Yatri goes down there for the music: flame, blood, the dead, and every civilization buried on the way. Nothing is cleaned up for daylight.
Every record goes one level further down
Chita
চিতাRokto Tilak
রক্ত তিলকAmabasya
অমাবস্যাShmashan
শ্মশানBhogavati
ভোগবতী৩সুতলSutala, realm 3 of 7
Seven realms lie under the earth. This is the sound from the last one.
07realms down to Pataal
Nobody makes the trip alone
Nishi
Voiceon RasatalDhaak Ghor
Dhaak and percussionon ChitaAleya
Synths and noiseon Rokto TilakKansa
Bell metal, gongson AmabasyaMohona
Stringson ShmashanShob Jatra
Choiron BhogavatiOne way down, and no clean version
Pataal Yatri (পাতাল যাত্রী) is Bengali for the one who travels the underworld. The name is the method.
The work starts where the lamps of a Bengali evening stop reaching: the burning ground, the blood-red hibiscus, the stories told to keep children indoors after dark. None of it is softened, translated or tidied. If a take sounds unhinged, that is the take.
Underneath it is an older idea: every civilization is built on top of the one it buried. The records dig.
- Releases
- 06
- Collaborators
- 06
- Realms
- 07
- Filters
- 00
- Flame
- Blood
- The dead
- Power
- Hell
- Civilization
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