Aïsha Devi nurtures an idiosyncratic approach to her music. She describes her sound as Aetherave, and uses bassy-heavy club motifs and intentional aesthetic signifiers to transport listeners to a dizzying, kinetic environment, harnessing timeless frequencies. On each record, Devi has advanced her philosophy and developed her technology; her last album 'DNA Feelings' (2018) was a radical hybrid of ancient mysticism and rebellious pop, and her upcoming LP 'Death is Home' propels listeners towards the extremes, bending fictile beats and cybernetic textures into transformational songs. This eagerly-awaited new album is a liveable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture.

'Death is Home' is ultimately a manifesto. It's Devi's most revealing work to date and a direct result of her personal evolution and ongoing quest. Growing up under the shadow of isolation and abuse, she formed her practice as a healing method, using it to neutralize her past and recreate an alternate, more hospitable reality - beyond the human condition. Her feelings were compounded when she tracked down the whereabouts of her father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she never knew. Devi was informed he had died young, but rather than perceive this as a binary, through mourning, she realized that his existence had already offered her a lifeline and a refuge.

Devi's words and productions reach out to a place where weightlessness has the power to dissolve the corporeal world's manufactured terror of death. Without this trepidation, life's boundaries and limitations fall away. "Burn the flesh, a Deva's born," she sings over tense, pneumatic kicks on 'Not Defined by the Visible'. Her voice is contorted by electronic processes, but the meaning is human: to reach the holy, we must shed our skin. The narrative that guides the album unfurls with the plasticity of an open-world videogame, a space where one can unravel the dogma of life vs. death. On 'Lick Your Wounds', Devi reveals her deepest trauma, pacifying it with rousing, ritualistic rhythms and melancholic pads. "Vapors of violence remain in my broken bones, intoxicate my DNA," she invokes. "I'll lick my wounds and heal at night. I'll take over." She extends this invitation to anybody tuned in to her signals, providing lodging for those that crave it. Birth is virtual. Death is home.

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Death Is Home

"Aethernal Score’’, Aisha Devi’s commission for the BBC Concert Orchestra, is an attempt to intensify the vibrational capacities of the orchestra and divert the expected course of classical-electronic collaboration. Devi has always used her art to push against cultural presumptions, so it made sense to assemble the initial framework for the piece from some of her acclaimed back catalogue, meshing it with new compositions and reworking everything with orchestral elements that follow Devi's radical metaphysical and theoretical guidelines. It's best described as a twenty-minute "mixtape" that embodies the connections between the concert hall, the club and the sacred ritual - or even a demonstration of the orchestra's hidden potential.

Inspired by her Himalayan heritage, Devi has been exploring the entrancing sonic application of monastic practices such as throat singing for many years, as well as developing psychoacoustic methods. This led her to perceive sound as a way of expanding brain activity - something that also plays a shrouded role in the world of chamber music. Applying this to the orchestra, she began thinking about each instrument as a discrete frequency range, searching for its ethereal properties rather than fixating on an object saddled with cultural baggage. Using the density, amplitude and vibrational impact of the sounds in unison, Devi was able to summon the club environment, seizing that space's inherent power - Devi was making orchestral rave.

Two versions of the score are included on the release, one orchestrated in collaboration with Robert Ames and conducted by André de Ridder, performed on October 29, 2021 with the BBC Concert Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall which was commissioned by Elizabeth Alker for Unclassified Live, and the purely electronic version - the synthetic backbone of the composition. Both are very different, and listened to together highlight the transformative power of instrumentation. The result is like a purge of history and hierarchy, with tools of colonization hollowed-out and fashioned into new shapes. A clash of grandeur and sensitivity, and a live deconstruction of the artistic ego, "Aethernal Score" is transcendent re-evaluation of classical and electronic sounds that doesn't just make you think, it makes you resonate.

Aethernal Score (Live With the BBC Orchestra)

Mixes & NTS shows

Aïsha Devi nurtures an idiosyncratic approach to her music. She describes her sound as Aetherave, and uses bassy-heavy club motifs and intentional aesthetic signifiers to transport listeners to a dizzying, kinetic environment, harnessing timeless frequencies. On each record, Devi has advanced her philosophy and developed her technology; her last album 'DNA Feelings' was a radical hybrid of ancient mysticism and rebellious pop, and 'Death is Home' propels listeners towards the extremes, bending fictile beats and cybernetic textures into transformational songs. This eagerly-awaited new album is a livable, breathable sonic essence that reveals itself alchemically, reorienting anachronistic cultural preconceptions with its contemporary, ornate language and eerie architecture.

'Death is Home' is ultimately a manifesto. It's Devi's most revealing work to date and a direct result of her personal evolution and ongoing quest. Growing up under the shadow of isolation and abuse, she formed her practice as a healing method, using it to neutralize her past and recreate an alternate, more hospitable reality - beyond the human condition. 
Her feelings were compounded when she tracked down the whereabouts of her father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she never knew. Devi was informed he had died young, but rather than perceive this as a binary, through mourning, she realized that his existence had already offered her a lifeline and a refuge. 

Devi's words and productions reach out to a place where weightlessness has the power to dissolve the corporeal world's manufactured terror of death. Without this trepidation, life's boundaries and limitations fall away. "Burn the flesh, a Deva's born," she sings over tense, pneumatic kicks on 'Not Defined by the Visible'. Her voice is contorted by electronic processes, but the meaning is human: to reach the holy, we must shed our skin. The narrative that guides the album unfurls with the plasticity of an open-world videogame, a space where one can unravel the dogma of life vs. death. On 'Lick Your Wounds', Devi reveals her deepest trauma, pacifying it with rousing, ritualistic rhythms and melancholic pads. "Vapors of violence remain in my broken bones, intoxicate my DNA," she invokes. "I'll lick my wounds and heal at night. I'll take over." She extends this invitation to anybody tuned in to her signals, providing lodging for those that crave it. Birth is virtual. Death is home.

vinyl / stream

Dimensional Spleen (feat. Slikback)

The Infinite Chemistry of the Betwixt (Tool)

Lick Your Wounds

Immortelle

Not Defined By The Visible

"Aethernal Score’’, Aisha Devi’s commission for the BBC Concert Orchestra, is an attempt to intensify the vibrational capacities of the orchestra and divert the expected course of classical-electronic collaboration. Devi has always used her art to push against cultural presumptions, so it made sense to assemble the initial framework for the piece from some of her acclaimed back catalogue, meshing it with new compositions and reworking everything with orchestral elements that follow Devi's radical metaphysical and theoretical guidelines. It's best described as a twenty-minute "mixtape" that embodies the connections between the concert hall, the club and the sacred ritual - or even a demonstration of the orchestra's hidden potential.

Inspired by her Himalayan heritage, Devi has been exploring the entrancing sonic application of monastic practices such as throat singing for many years, as well as developing psychoacoustic methods. This led her to perceive sound as a way of expanding brain activity - something that also plays a shrouded role in the world of chamber music. Applying this to the orchestra, she began thinking about each instrument as a discrete frequency range, searching for its ethereal properties rather than fixating on an object saddled with cultural baggage. Using the density, amplitude and vibrational impact of the sounds in unison, Devi was able to summon the club environment, seizing that space's inherent power - Devi was making orchestral rave.

Two versions of the score are included on the release, one orchestrated in collaboration with Robert Ames and conducted by André de Ridder, performed on October 29, 2021 with the BBC Concert Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall which was commissioned by Elizabeth Alker for Unclassified Live, and the purely electronic version - the synthetic backbone of the composition. Both are very different, and listened to together highlight the transformative power of instrumentation. The result is like a purge of history and hierarchy, with tools of colonization hollowed-out and fashioned into new shapes. A clash of grandeur and sensitivity, and a live deconstruction of the artistic ego, "Aethernal Score" is transcendent re-evaluation of classical and electronic sounds that doesn't just make you think, it makes you resonate.

Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Metropolis.

Aïsha Devi - Aethernal Binaural [excerpt]

Aïsha Devi - Two Serpents Theme [excerpt]

tracklist & interview http://www.dummymag.com/mixes/dummy-mix-286-aisha-devi
Let's talk about the invisible



Dummy Mix 286 - Aïsha Devi

First monthly show
http://www.nts.live/shows/aisha-devi

Disjecta-Pit (Edit)
A Tribe Called Quest-Accapella
Ivvvo-Haters
FIS-Her Third Eye (Drum Rain)
Lit Internet-Bow (Feat Lao)
Nomades du Niger - Tikichkichene
KLF-Madrugas Eterna
Shackleton-Deadman
Judy Nylon-Room Without A View (Vocal Edit)
?-? (forthcoming on Danse Noire)
Philip Glass-Music In Contrary Motion
Elysia Crampton-American Drift
Naum Gabo-Like Crystalline
Matchess-Letters Of Blood And Fire
Visionist-More Pain
The Smiths-Meat Is Murder
Orca-Intalect
J.G. Biberkopf-Waters

NTS 18.01.16

Monthly show monday 4-5pm
http://www.nts.live/shows/aisha-devi

Herbarium - ШИШКИН ЛЕС
Mosey - TC Midi Labs
CHAAMS - Untro
Eugene Ward - Paper (Duet) (AD_Shaman Edit)
Gaika - Enoch's Drone
Taso - SaxXx
Anne Clark - That We Have Been Here (Aïsha Devi Vox Edit)
Prurient - Every Relationship Earthrise
J.G. Biberkopf - Spirit
Rushmore - You Got Me
Cocteau Twins - Pink Orange Red
Health - In Violet
Jonathan Fitoussi and Clemens Hourriere - Drum Circle (Aïsha Devi Vox Edit)
Shift Tides - Surveillance Mode
Vainio Väisänen - Vega_Disgrace (Aïsha Devi Edit)
The Nag's Head - Luxury Slime Vortex
FIS - Kal
 Liberian Girl (Aisha Devi Hermetica Edit) 

NTS 14.03.16

Monthly show monday 4-5pm
www.nts.live/shows/aisha-devi

Tori Amos - Me And A Gun
Rude Boys - Gqom Originators
Peder Mannerfelt - Valle
Aisha Devi -  ? (unreleased) 
Celestial Trax - After All
Sally Oldfield - Hide And Seek
D’Eon -  Infosys II 
A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Angels Standing Guard 'round the Side of Your Bed
VIOLENCE - Wintertime
Infinity Frequencies - Shadow Sade 
Shackleton vs Tupac vs D'Eon (AD Edit)
Rapoon - Sanctum
Aisha Devi - O.M.A. (Abul Mogard Remix)
Triad God - Gwan Ye Gong

NTS 11.04.16

http://www.nts.live/shows/aisha-devi

Binaural Pineal & Anahata
Babyfather - Deep ft Arca
asda - Long Grass
Rian Treanor - A1
Palmistry - Club Aso
TCF -ae3f3c9a1faf1d1f7288d16148703afb8b3e66f0afdf049217e6193b268
Ocomeups - Try To Levitate Above It All (Forthcoming on Purple Tape Pedigree)
Psychick Warriors Of Gaïa - Maenads
Roly Porter - In System
DNA Activation
Celestial Trax - Bleed Wiv Me
Logos - Cold Mission
Random Gods - Malsano (Forthcoming on Danse Noire)
Roly Porter - In Flight
Suso Sáiz - Prefiero El Naranja (Aisha Devi Vocal Edit)
Donna Summer - Grand Illusion

NTS 09.05.16

www.nts.live/shows/aisha-devi

2814 - Contact
Mssingno - Scope
Oklou - Silicium
Rian Treanor vs Young Thug (Devi Edit)
Jack Dice feat. Stash Marina - Stash's Theme
Aphex Twin - On (U-Ziq Mix)
Lukid - Manchester (Devi Edit)
Anxiety Support Group - Stardust Splash - forthcoming videogame music 
Bane - shall we
GIL - Onset (J.G. Biberkopf Remix) - forthcoming Danse Noire 
Air Max '97 - Spoken (Devi Edit)
Dalhous - A Communion with These People
Conan Osiris - Quinoa

NTS 31.08.16

http://www.nts.live/shows/aisha-devi

ADR - King David
Rapoon - Akkura (Devi 2Pac Edit)
Boothroyd - Colony
Cocteau Twins - Pepper Tree (Edit)
Air Max '97 - Hounded
Eyeless in Gaza - The Eyes Of Beautiful Losers
Dinamarca - Holy
Eaves - Exegesis
Binaural Beats - Brain Wave (Edit)
Felicita -  Heads Will Roll/I Will Devour You
SHALT - Hypermalthusian VIP (Edit)
Nuns Of Nangi Gompa - Si Pema Jone
Stargate - Driving Hyperreality (Edit)
SHALT - The Treatment (Ziur Rmx)
Yves Tumor - Role In Creation (Devi Edit)
ADR - Lost Ya
George Michael - Careless Whisper (Devi Edit)

NTS 19.12.16

Aïsha Devi mixes matter and spirit on an atmospheric FACT mix packed with off-the-wall edits.

Tracklist and more info: http://www.factmag.com/2017/02/20/aisha-devi-fact-mix-589/

FACT Mixes

FACT mix 589 - Aïsha Devi (February '17)

Infinite club sounds from @danse-noire-records founder @aisha-devi

Tracklist: http://mixmag.net/feature/in-session-aisha-devi

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In Session: Aïsha Devi

➡️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b5sy2l
s/o to Tom

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - 合唱刈干切唄
Caterina Barbieri - Scratches on the Readable Surface
J-Zbel - Nem De Porc
Felicita - Heads Will Roll / I Will Devour You
Hatsune Miku - Project DIVA Vocaloid
Lanark Artefax - Flickering Debris
Aisha Devi - Time (Tool)
Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea (Dumb Child of Q)
Lorenzo Senni - Win In The Flat World

Aïsha Devi BBC6 w/ Tom Ravenscroft mix

https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=699
October 2019

Aïsha Devi - Superluminal
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi vs Post Malone (Devi Edit)
Exploited Body - I Was Never Enough
Gabber Modus Operandi - Trance Adiluhunxxx
E-Saggila - My World My Way (Devi Edit)
J-Zbel - Riddim Du Bardouin
John Carpenter - The Fog vs Billie Eilish (Devi Edit)
Tomas Urquieta - Dueños de Nada x Ariana Grande (Devi Edit)
Iona Fortune - Xu ?
Kablam - DJ HAY!?
Slickback & Hyph11e - Shimian vs The Prodigy (Devi Edit)
Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe II
Tricky - For Real (Devi Edit)
Llanto - Raum
Aïsha Devi - I'm Not Always Where My Body is (Varg Remix)
Sign Libra - Outro / Oophaga Pumilio
Racine - Désordre Baroque
GIL - Swallow Ash
Amnesia Scanner & Bill Kouligas - Lexachast II (Devi Vocaloid Edit)
Rage Against The Machine vs Flowdan (Devi Edit)

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