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Dwells On An Obscure Sorrow In Their New Album

- SHREYA BOSE

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In the midst of our conversation, I pressed

Tesseract vocalist Dan Thompkins

to qualify their music He took a few

seconds, stared at an abandoned beer

on the table and called it "Meshuggah

meets Textures meets Michael Jackson"

I gaped, but we were running out of

time and I couldn’t ask for specifics.

As an artistic engine, Tesseract puts out

music driven by wildly disparate influences

and motivations If you are looking for

some kind of guiding ethos, the closest

you could come to identifying one would

be a brand of introspective honesty They

do what feels right for each concept

they are exploring in collusion For Polaris,

Dan's harsh vocal throttle was discarded

in favour of more brooding exhalations

The harshness has returned on their latest

album Sonder, but has been deployed

with an almost calligraphic prudence.

Their albums are very distinctly "concept",

obsessed with crafting worlds out of ideas,

each tracing a prolonged meditation on

some human tragedy or psychological

wonderment What do I mean? "Sonder"

denotes acknowledgement of the fact

that other people build and experience

lives as immediate, as pertinent and

as vivid as one's own Essentially, it is a

deconstruction of empathy, done with

the intention of dismantling self-centered

delusion A sentiment drawn from passing

through numberless unfamiliar lands,

the band weaves the idea into a sonic

combination of belligerent precision

and stark minimalist withdrawal.

It is hard to have a lukewarm opinion

about the band, because they offer

no lukewarm fantasies Despite being

what guitarist James Monteith calls "still

very much a bedroom-based band",

their melodic offerings exhibit an

effortless dexterity Either they rehearse

endlessly, or familiarity with complexity

is just part of their creative zeitgeist.

In conversation, they offer generous

expansions on ideas that they have

possibly talked about far too often On

stage, they partake of stunning spectacle

that invites exaltation The headbanger

standing right next to me in the 2018

Mumbai gig had brought his girlfriend who

clearly hadn’t caught these guys before

She tried to slip away from the jostling

crowd, but he pleaded with her to not miss

Deception Within a couple of minutes,

she was trying to slip into the moshpit.

Here’s what the band had to say when

they carved out time for us in Mumbai.

We are aware that you don’t like to identify or label your sound as exclusively ‘djent’

But since you tend to be

as considered one of the bands representative of the genre, what do you think

of the state of the genre?

More specifically, what do you think of the word in relation to your music?

Dan Thompkins: I’m slightly conflicted I like the word, but I also don’t like it Oversatured,

I think, is a good way of explaining our reaction to it

There’s a lot of bands doing it;

playing within this genre You can see, throughout time, how different genres have come into being on the back of each other

They’re doing one particular thing, and then it grows as a genre And djent has become, almost like a small version of nu-metal I don’t think, necessarily, that any of us would ever refer

to ourselves as ‘djent’, purely because every record we have created sounds very different from the first one, which was definitely more djent-sounding

We kinda have different sounds, and it is hard to conform to the particulars of a single genre

Tesseract is known for expansive, evocative storytelling, which is reflected in the length of your albums In the light

of this, why is Sonder only limited to 36 minutes?

Dan: Quality over quantity It is one of those artistic ethics that

we have always adhered to Also,

we like to do things differently

To put it simply, people expect large albums Whenever I listen

to an album that is 30 or 40 tracks long, I get bored, sometimes straight away For an album of that length to sustain the quality

of music is also quite rare

I also feel like the replay factor

of Sonder is quite high, even for myself By the time I get to the end of The Arrow, I often feel like

I want to listen to it all again

During the making, that was

a certain aspect that we quite

liked about Sonder, and one we haven’t explored in the past

Of course, that’s not to say that from now on, every album we release will be 36 minutes long But we are trying something different, thinking and crafting outside the box, trying to be creative with as many facets

of the music as possible

Who knows, the next album might actually be 20 songs long.But it is still very much

a concept album

Ironically, it is possibly the most conceptual album that

we have ever created

Which one of you went

to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows and found the word Sonder?

Dan: That was me I came across the word about 6 or 7 years ago I mean, I discovered The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

a couple of years ago, but I have been aware of the word

‘Sonder’ for several years

I just remembered the word, and I revisited it by googling

it I realized that it was coined

by John Koenig (the Swedish storyteller) The word has a feel, a vibe which each of us have experienced as touring musicians passing through different lands, different cultures, traveling the world And often, we are bystanders, perhaps driving through a town that passes quite quickly

It’s an interesting way to be, looking in on other people’s lives like that What are they doing? Where are they going? What’s happening in their day? Are they worried about something that we can’t relate to, or something that

we can relate to very easily?

I also think it was just a nice way to include our fan base

in a more creative way

Right You also invited your fans to send in recordings, some of which have been incorporated in the album

Dan: Yea So, it wasn’t just the concept of Sonder that we

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wanted to talk about It was an inclusive

exercise in which we drew people in to

participate with their own unique stories

And also, I guess there is an underlying

message of trying to highlight the way

we live these days – with an element of

tunnel vision focused on our screens In

that light, I think it’s good to have a more

expansive outlook on life, and this album

tries, maybe, to instill a bit of perspective

into people’s lives Just take a step back,

and look at how someone else is living

Coming from my generation, I still remember

telephones, the ones on a wire There was no

internet Now I have kids myself, and seeing

them grow up in such a

technologically-oriented world – it’s quite scary in a way

I’ve seen how relationships develop around

technology and how damaging it can be

For example, if you have a face-to-face

conversation with somebody, you get to read

body language and get to know their reaction

in the context When it’s done through social

media or technology, you miss out on a whole

spectrum of emotions, and relationships

resulting from that can be quite lacking

A lot of this thought went into composition,

and Sonder just tried to pin the whole

cosmology of thought into one idea

Are there any stereotypes attached

to Tesseract’s music that you

find irksome or incorrect?

Dan: Not really We’re quite relaxed as

individuals, even reclusive at times We don’t

try to dip into the world of musical politics

But when it comes to stereotypes, I think

one that still endures that is the one that

describes the general metalhead as a male

in their early to mid-20s But that no longer

exists for us Our metal fans represent a

huge demographic Old, young, male, female,

different sexual orientations – there’s a

whole spectrum of people who love Tesseract

Interestingly enough, we’ve discovered

that the audience varies by album So,

you can quickly identify people who listen

to songs from One, or want to hear songs

from Concealing Fate or from Sonder

I think every one of our albums has a

different fan base, and I think that is

born from the fact that we tend to be very

creative, and always try to do something

different with each one We don’t try to

recreate the sound of a previous album

Is there a tedious aspect to

composition and putting out music?

Acle Kahney: Composition is the fun

bit Its touring that can get a bit tedious

because you have to keep doing the same

thing every day Composition is the fun bit even though it can be a long process

So, the concept of Sonder – that other people live lives as vivid and

as dynamic and your own- how did that become a topic of discussion for an album in the first place?

Dan: This was one of the first times that we came together as a band and confidently decided that this was the direction to go

in terms of concept Sonder is one of those ineffable emotions, one of those things that is especially hard to articulate or describe I think this might be the first time when I remembered a word that really resonated with me I brought it to the table, and everybody else related to

it so strongly that we decided, as a band, that this was the way to go artistically

Since good art is often interdisciplinary,

if you had to pick a certain book or film

to match the ethos of this album or your music in general, what would it be?

Acle: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.Dan: We actually have been listening

to a lot of film scores lately, both before and during the creation of Sonder, so that would make sense

Since you have been to India

a few times, does anything really stand out anymore?

Dan: At this point, the one thing that does stand out is the traffic and the heat (laughs) It is completely bonkers But needless to say, the diversity is always noticeable here The energy of the people – its completely unique You don’t see this anywhere else in the world

What was the back story to the artwork for Sonder?

Amos Williams: So, imagine that you are walking down the street in Mumbai Now, you can imagine that straight away

In your head, it’s a level of familiarity that is subconscious The artwork was

an attempt to replicate that – something that would represent humanity in such

a subconscious and immediate way

Everything that we have been, everything that we are and everything that we will

be in the future - it was an attempt to create an icon that could represent all of that, perhaps even represent a concept

of humanity Hopefully, you look at it and it leads you down a path that takes you to a memory of who you are

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Our Current Obsession AKA

Tesseract On Loop

Smile (Sonder)

Juno (Sonder)

Of Matter - Resist (Altered State)

Of Mind – Exile (Altered State)

Of Reality – Palingenesis (Altered State)

Perfection (Perspective)

Cages (Polaris)

Utopia (Polaris)

Hexes (Polaris)

Seven Names (Polaris)

Deception - Concealing Fate,

Pt 2 (Concealing Fate)

Origin - Concealing Fate, Pt.6

(Concealing Fate) Actually, just keep

hitting replay on Concealing Fate.

Facts About Tesseract To Impress Your Prog-Loving Date

· In 2013, Tesseract was slated to perform

at NH7 Weekender Bengaluru They couldn’t, due to a sudden downpour.

· Tesseract took birth in 2003 while founding member and bassist Acle Kahney was recording and writing with his band Mikaw Barish.

· They have toured with Megadeth, and asked Dave Mustaine to get them beer (He did it, too).

· They have also opened for Devin Townsend.

· The name for their fourth album Sonder comes from John Koenig’s Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows.

· For Sonder, they used about 37 or

38 field recordings sent in by fans.

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Imagine you have had a hard day Shouldn’t be too hard, right?

Especially if you live in the concrete labyrinth that is a city Your boss gave you the cold shoulder, the office coffee machine was broken, and the cute girl on Tinder did not respond

to your right swipe Your cooking isn’t that great, and you’re too tired

to stay up for the 45 minutes it will take for takeout to reach you

Now retreat to your room Lean against the wall in your favourite corner, try to brew a cup of tea and take the first uninterrupted breath of your day Now press play on Lean on Love

And, there it is Acoustic flourish rushes in on you, and you can almost see it Mountains rising into a glistening summer sky An unhurried chai at a roadside tapri Unrecognised, beautiful wildflowers in your path

Playful dogs and children bundled under layers of fur and woollens The air smells of budding foliage, and you spot green as far as the eye can see

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While not stylistically or thematically groundbreaking, the song is an emphatic happymaker

Give yourself the space to reward yourself with some reassurance that love does exist for you to take recourse to after that bad day

Saansein (The Mallroad Project):

Whatever takes your breath away

is worthy of art The sentiment of having your breath stolen is also equally worthy, and possibly a challenge to represent The Mallroad Project, a Delhi-born rock outfit does attempt something similar, but manages to accomplish a somewhat half-edges execution

Immediately striking is the monotone that marks the vocal intonation The words suggest the appearance of

an individual akin to an epiphany, who cuts through loneliness, ennui and despondence but the idea is not matched by the a tumbling, predictable soundscape While one cannot point a finger at the melodic structuring and extract some massive gaffe, one is not driven to recall it too often either Seeking

to represent a life event that shifts your existential tectonics, the band manages to measurably underwhelm

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Interpretation is an exhausting exercise Why else would millions of seemingly free will-laden people around the world agree with obviously awful ideas? Because paying close attention, formulating relatively unbiased opinion and going against the grain of popular agreement can be, if not fatal, distinctly tedious

Why bring this up? Because

to language-driven, communication-hungry humans, instrumental music can be simultaneously liberating and baffling On the one hand, you are free to chip out your own tales around the sound Conversely, if you are anything like me, you are obsessed with trying to figure out the artist’s intention, thereby googling too much and eventually bewildering yourself Jatayu’s Chango Tales engenders this conflict, and keeps it going until the last minute of the EP

Chango Tales is cunning craft, it's story vacillating between somber ominosity and sprightly skill Like all good jazz, this Chennai-based quartet creates music that is deeply visual and redolent with story Clearly, the band is aware of the history

of the genre, as they take hold of their storytelling and expand it to slightly surreal proportions

is delivered on throughout Through the lens of expertly woven jazz-rock offerings that are laden with Carnatic whiplash, they impart sonic tales that could range from Sunday morning stimulation

to strange musings on a Thursday evening commute Basically, their music can be transposed to innumerable lives, and would fit with equal ease into each Whatever the story playing in your head, it will find a pertinent soundtrack somewhere between Shingara and Pazhi

Apocalypse (Adido):

We’re living through

a dark time, and it has broken Adido’s heart

This Goanese wordmaker introduces himself with a debut single that attempts

to engender introspection from the first beat

The crux of the matter is an accusation Humanity has driven itself dangerously close to devastation Now, that’s not news Our world is playing with the possibility

of annihilation, all directed towards the dream of a “first world” This is a particular target of Adido’s ire, and understandably so

“I see what you’ve done with your industries

A revolution has come about in our countriesFor crimes caused by your hunger and need

To build what you’ve come to call The American Dream”

The hilarity of seeking a new world (which is no longer a metaphor, since Elon Musk actually intends to colonize Mars) is also addressed

“Not realising the irreversible damage you bring

And now you’re looking for a new world?”

Adido’s ideology is impeccable, and his verbiage is admirable

While his wordplay can be considered unpolished, it resonates with authentic anguish At key moments, however, his delivery is more akin to the auspices of slam poetry than hip-hop For one thing, his breathplay is still nascent, in the midst of taking form The rage characteristic of street rhymes is not noticeable, and one will have to revisit his subsequent works to seek the catharsis of spitfire poesy

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Tell us how and when you decided to pick up the rabab ?

After I mastered my spanish guitar skills and won the Kashmirs

got talent bagging the 1st position, many people started playing

the same style and I was told by my grandmother and other

family members to pick up the kashmiri Traditional instrument

especially Rabab I also thought it is only upto us kashmiri

youngsters either to let this culture die or to make efforts to keep

it alive After that picked up rabab and I’m in love with it till now

What’s your favorite thing about the instrument?

The sound of the instrument just touches your heart The echo

from the 16 sympathetic strings give goosebumps to the

people hearing

How did you enter the music scene at first? What

challenges did you face?

After winning Kashmirs got talent I was already in the scene I

made a music video called Firdaus in which I played the theme

song of Pirates of carribean and fused it with my composition It

went viral on Social media and got a lot appreciation from around

the world

The challenge was to make people except this change in music It is

tough to get appreciation from kashmir

What are your thoughts on the Indie music scene?

I think after a year indie artists will create a boom in India Hardly anyone gets in bollywood, all are independent and are doing great

in music Artists you’ve collaborated with and your experience

I have collaborated with many musicians for music videos

Collaborated with Yawar Abdal on one of his single ”Baal mareyo” While on my USA tour collaborated with musicians from California Performed a poetry set with reowned poet Zareef Ahmed Zareef Collaborated with artists in pune and formed a collective band Experience was amazing, all loved the concept of

my music

Who are you inspired by in your genre of music?

I was inspired by old kashmiri musicians I used to listen to a lot of old kashmiri songs in mehfils(Gatherings) where Rabab was used a lot Got inpired, transformed and fused it with western instruments that gave it a new sound People are happy back home about what i

am doing

Tell us about your upcoming projects

Soon a collaboration with Gajendra Verma on a song and a collaboration with Alif Band is on the way Scoring for a bollywood movie is also planned for this year and also some experimental music videos with Rabab is in the making

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