Akhil Srivatsan 3/6/22 Akhil Srivatsan 3/6/22

MYNAE – Just Like Heaven

Wonder what the point of music is on the sixth of March, twenty twenty two. Wonder if it serves the same purpose it served fifty, eighty, one hundred, one thousand years ago. Maybe six thousand years ago, that age’s Leonard Cohen wrote wryly of the migration patterns of wildebeest. I’ve been working on new music over the past half year. Here’s a pleasant house cover of the Cure’s Just Like Heaven.

Akhil Srivatsan 12/29/20 Akhil Srivatsan 12/29/20

Fly Me There

Fly Me There is the first peek into the music I’ve been making. It’s brisker than the music on my people are… This is a 120 bpm minimal house and techno inspired electronic exploration. Apart from various subgenres of electronic music, you will also find the obvious influence of Indian folk and classical music. The Nadaswaram features heavily.

Akhil Srivatsan 9/3/20 Akhil Srivatsan 9/3/20

my people are…

The latest album from the curator of this mag: a mix of electronic music, trip-hop, downtempo, and Indian classical.

Akhil Srivatsan 6/27/20 Akhil Srivatsan 6/27/20

bad wolf

The fifth (and final) single from my album is a reworking of the first demo I released from what was in April just a ‘bunch of tracks’.

Akhil Srivatsan 6/22/20 Akhil Srivatsan 6/22/20

old songs

The fourth single from my upcoming album, my people… I derived inspiration from a particular memory of listening to Cody from the album on an evening alone in my hostel room more than a decade ago.

Akhil Srivatsan 6/17/20 Akhil Srivatsan 6/17/20

descent

descent is a track about anxiety, and I, like many people, have had mental health on my mind for the past few days, because of the tragic death of Sushant Singh Rajput. The track (and the rest of my upcoming album) is about dealing with anxiety and trying to overcome it.

Akhil Srivatsan 6/12/20 Akhil Srivatsan 6/12/20

doves

doves is the second single from my upcoming album, my people… doves is a meditation on the balance between positivity and awareness, especially in the context of isolation, anxiety, and hardship. It’s very much a song born out of the covid crisis, but attempts to negotiate with, and defeat, universal psychological demons.

Akhil Srivatsan 5/23/20 Akhil Srivatsan 5/23/20

dakshin 2 // the rebirth

dakshin 2 // the rebirth, the first song from my new album came from looking back to the land of my ancestors, Tamil Nadu.

Releases.