Rachika Nayar

Rachika Nayar is a Brooklyn-based composer and producer, whose music utilizes processed guitar among other synthesized and multi-instrumental sounds. She composed her full-length NNA Tapes debut, Our Hands Against the Dusk, over four years by digitally mutating her improvisational guitar parts, and combining the contorted textures with shimmering synths, orchestral strings, and piano. In that fluid but always deeply felt form, her music eschews single genres, binaries, and identities, as it wades through influences spanning experimental (ambient-electronic, neoclassical) and popular vernaculars (Midwest emo, post-rock, and beyond). An EP “fragments” followed on RVNG Intl’s Commend imprint, a companion piece to her debut that offers a glimpse into the surprising types of raw guitar loops from which her songwriting process often originates.

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Events featuring Rachika Nayar

Mar 15, 2022
7:00pm — 7:30pm
Presented by
Zone 6 / Audiofemme
Mar 16, 2022
11:00pm — 11:40pm
Presented by
American Dreams / Northern Spy / NNA Tapes
Mar 17, 2022
7:00pm — 7:30pm
Presented by
Fire Records / Anniversary Group
About
From:
Brooklyn, NY
Subgenre:
Avant / Experimental
Professional Connections
Rachika Nayar is seeking the following:
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  • Management
  • Booking Agent - Worldwide
  • PR/Publicity Agency
  • Publishing
  • Sync/Music Supervisors