Songs For Puppies, by Beast Nest

Songs For Puppies

by Beast Nest

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3.	Judgement // Rebirth 07:06	buy track
4.	Lullabai 07:51	buy track
5.	Virgo Rising 10:13	buy track
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about

Beast Nest is the primary performance vehicle for Sharmi Basu, a queer South Asian woman of color focused on creating experimental music as a means of decolonizing musical language. One day, Sharmi aspires to have an ensemble called “Dog Divas,” which will feature her lying in the grass surrounded by Casio keyboards played by overexcited 6-week-old puppies.

With that in mind: Songs For Puppies marks her Full Spectrum debut. A dense mosaic of textures and sonic ephemera, these recordings explore intersectional dualities, catalyzing a political – yet ethereal – aesthetic by combining her anti-colonial and anti-imperialist political leanings with a commitment to spirituality within the arts.

Over its duration, the listener is transported through densely layered aural environments that are at once becalmed and brutal; light and dark; ordered and collapsing utterly into entropy. Recalling, at times, the toothsome noise jams of the late Yellow Swans, or perhaps Rashad Becker’s biomimetic aural sculptures, we are thrilled to feature this remarkable work as part of the Full Spectrum catalog.

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released March 2, 2015

All songs produced, composed and mixed by Sharmi Basu in Oakland, CA.

Mastered by Andrew Weathers.
Album Artwork by Gretchen Korsmo

Virgo Rising is dedicated to my mama and Rishi.

This record is for the eye of the cervix, for Beni (my puppy), and for all those using creative music for moments of liberation in struggle. This record is for knowing that all brown and black bodies will rise up out of the ashes of our suffering and glow through the rage of our ancestors. This record will never be for cops, white supremacists, or perpetrators of gendered violence. This record is not for the complacent. This record is for encouraging the people at their work, and exhorting them to help one another.

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Full Spectrum Records releases the works of experimental musicians and sound artists, with an ear towards idiosyncratic tones, extended time frames and unique compositional approaches.

discography

Sun Dogs

Nov 2019
Disposition

Oct 2019
Infinite Futures

Aug 2019
Every Road is a Good Road

May 2019
hirakito

Feb 2019
Things I said I'd never be

Jan 2019
wanna live in the world w/a whole face

Oct 2018
Radiate Don't Fear The Quietus

Jun 2018
s/t

May 2018
Lavatone

Mar 2018
Earth Tones at the Metal Show

Jan 2018
beneath the

Aug 2017
Ctrl-Z

Jul 2017
Nakatani/Nanna/Schoofs/Woods

Jul 2017
25 to 40

May 2017
Ogallala

Mar 2017
Golden Apples of the West

Jan 2017
The Channeled Voice

Jan 2017
I Can't Sleep, I Can't Wake Up

Oct 2016
Let Me Sleep / Death is a Narrow Sea

Sep 2016
MAHAMUDRA

Sep 2016
Sloth Period

Sep 2016
Emptiness Smiles

Apr 2016
Oakland to Sebastopol

Apr 2016
fey flight founders

Apr 2016
Deepest Indigo

Feb 2016
Nin-o-Van

Nov 2015
fine.

Nov 2015
Dillingham

Sep 2015
Olivebridge

Sep 2015
STRATUM

Sep 2015
Freight 1110 Through Greensboro

Mar 2015
Songs For Puppies

Mar 2015
Hymn Her Hum

Oct 2014
O, Annihilator

Oct 2014
Louella

Aug 2014
The Untuning of the Sky

Jun 2013
Dreamless

Feb 2013
Weakness

Dec 2012
I Will Love You, Always

May 2012
Open Mystery

Mar 2012
sam uho

Aug 2011
Same River Twice: In The All Together Vol. 3

Jul 2011
Word Is Bond

Mar 2011
A Season In Decline

Dec 2010
Over My Obstructions Volume 1: This Voice Saying These Words

Nov 2010
Lungs

Jun 2010
Revisiting

Apr 2010
A Process in the Weather of the Heart

Mar 2010
Andrew Weathers / Noose of Laurels

Dec 2009
Pnomoneya

Jun 2009
Holiday

Feb 2009
Aa

Jan 2009

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