we are shadows. we are silhouettes.

I love sharing stories with the world in whatever format I can, so I took to composing music. 

we are shadows. we are silhouettes.

This was my second experimental EP after Sonder which was released on 23rd October, 2014.

For most of you, this album may be like all the other albums you listen to or see around you, floating in the void, waiting to be heard. For me, this album is way more than a compilation of sounds. It's a philosophy.

After much contemplation about how I wanted to take my sound further, I decided to take the direction of this album towards a dark, gritty and atmospheric feeling due to a lot of reasons.

Last year was pretty eventful. I had more downs than ups, and I believe this is just the beginning. A lot of thoughts, perceptions, ideas, beliefs, my attitude as a whole, it all changed. I started to think a lot about “anthropocentric” behavior, my purpose on this godforsaken planet, and why humans are so weird and the reasons why I dislike them so much. I thought about it all. One thought that stuck with me was the fact that we're only shadows and silhouettes of one another. The way we act, behave and so on, it's all an accumulation of everything around us.

As Charvaka from Ship of Theseus states “It gives me some kicks though, to know that, a part of me was a part of an animal once, a flame, a star. A part will become mineral, flow in a plant, sprout in a fruit, get pecked by a bird. Every atom of my body will be recycled by the universe. You think you are a person but you are a colony. A microcosm which has ten times more bacteria in its body...than it has human cells.”

We think we're individuals, but are we? There, our entire idea of free will down the bin. You have trillions of bacteria in your body. How do you know where you end, and where your environment begins.

There's a lot more to what I thought behind this album.

https://soundcloud.com/yatharthvibhakar/sets/we-are-shadows-we-are

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Pt. I

meraki. (mA-'rak-E)

(n.) the soul, creativity, or love put into something; the essence of yourself that is put into your work.

I wanted to evoke a melancholic feeling through this composition because, even after putting a lot of efforts, hard work, love, passion and creativity, in life not all your work, what you do and what you stand and strive for will get the recognition, support, credit, attention or the critique it deserves.

Thank you.

we are shadows. we are silhouettes.

Pt. II

we are shadows. we are silhouettes.

Who are we really? We say we're individuals, each with their own identity and piece of mind. But do we? Not even our own bodies are our own. It's merely a combination of two bodies and theirs a combination of more. We feel only what we imagine is real. Our thoughts, ideals, perceptions, everything we stand for, it's all an accumulation of everything around us. Pixels which form the bigger picture. We are a colony. A cluster of different components, atoms, blocks put together.

So, who are we?

Thank you.

we are shadows. we are silhouettes.

Pt. III

For those who don’t know me and my music, I refrain from composing any mainstream/ commercial EDM and focus more on easy listening, calm electronic/ future/ chill/ ambient music.

But daray is an exception. Whenever I think about chaos and wanting to express or evoke the feeling of it through music, I can generally think of only one genre which can help me with that, and that is dubstep.

daray.

I was in conflict not only with everyone else's views, thoughts, perceptions and so on, but I was in conflict with myself and everything I used to stand for. There was so much chaos up in my head that I didn't know what held true anymore and what didn't. I couldn't think straight. I was lost. I could feel my life falling apart. Piece by piece. Slowly. This year, it has been pretty eventful for me. It's been full of surprises. I got and ended up with things that I don't and never deserved, and what I believed was the best thing that happened to me was just another passing phase which led to my self destruction. I was left behind. I understood the true meaning of friendship and family and realized that none of them will always be there for you when you need them most. I was left alone.

So, daray is my journey through everything that's happened this year. The good, the bad, and mostly the unexpected.

Please do tell me what does this track make you feel and how did your year turn out to be. Was it the way you had anticipated it to be?

Thank you.

we are shadows. we are silhouettes.