Rindigo

Rindigo - Nightshapes

I don’t know how to begin discussing this track. Of all tracks I have created, this one is my favourite. It carries emotional significant, aesthetic significance, and the EP is named after it. Some of you may recognize the first portion of the song as a reworked track I had uploaded in early January. It was a really distressing time in my life, and I had no idea what the next steps forward were. Everything felt futile or frozen. That track was called “Absence,” but I considered calling it “Primordial.” What it evoked was some sort of space without humans, a place and time before we evolved but some sort of ancient, creatures were teeming in an ocean. yet it also evoked glaring hospital lights, or ambulance lights in the night. 

Some portion of those emotions have carried over to this track. There is peace here, but some kind of force that cannot be stopped. Like a knock-out punch in slow motion. The emotional turbulence of the first portion pass on into some kind of warm fuzziness, but is it a warmth within a cavernous freezing ruin?

But what I really imagine with the word “nightshapes” and how it is put against the music is also related to the album cover. The second half, with the warm blanket of ethereal tones and the deep bass is like staring out of a dimly lit room into the cold, cold night, with a smile of somber contentment on your lips. the feeling after good friends have gone home after you threw a party. the knowledge that your night was spent irresponsibly in crazy fun drunken revels, but far away you know your family has long gone asleep and that you love them, and you know they love you. the feeling of sitting in an almost empty terminal on a rainy morning and you see the dawn between the horizon and the clouds, and know that once you take off and once you land, some of your loved ones will be both left behind and there to meet you. The crazy recollections of love in an empty room illuminated with a garland of christmas lights.

I think production wise, it is also one of my best achievements. I really put a lot of effort into bringing life into the percussion, and I really hope the bass is pleasing to my listeners’ ears.

Thank you for reading, thank you for listening, and thank you for sharing. 

Rindigo - Streetdaze

This one was in the works for a longer time, and so much love and effort was put into making the percussion sound just right.  The original sounds I had in mind when I started tinkering with Streetdaze was heavily inspired by Burial, Sorrow, Swarms, and the like, the more emotional, warmer, “fuzzier” type of dubstep. You might feel it in the rhythm - the “snare” is on the upbeat rather than the third, of you might feel it in the atmosphere. 

one of the main components of what gives this track the forlorn feeling of being left, emotionally befuddled, on a busy street is precisely the fact that there are samples of the street: I thank Nick, aka Draft34 for his field recordings that I used and manipulated into the atmosphere of Streetdaze. 

Rindigo - Gestalt

I’ll be posting the tracks off the EP in the order I uploaded them, and Gestalt is the first one. I chose the name because the word has always had an association with immensity and heaviness. When I think the word “gestalt,” I imagine the dark silhouette of a concrete and steel structure against a boiling grey sky, and to my ears, this track captured a touch of the feeling of a desolate, industrial space. at the same time, there seems to be something alive here, sometimes creeping and writhing and crawling, something wet. the huge reverbs and the constant echoing off of the percussion makes that space feel barren and a bit unwelcoming, but the immensity and fatness of the bass that drops in halfway through the track adds just enough warmth to keep the listener standing around that concrete underworld. I hope you have nice speakers, because this track has some good bass in it!