July 10th, 2015
v emphatic abt its minimalist production yet still filled to the brim with so many little details that it grows into its own sort of microcosmic reality, invoking all kinds of ethereal dreamlike worlds with bright-green pastel fields and waves glistening off aquamarine lakes, expanding endlessly side-by-side across the arching form of a pale-blue sugar-speckled void. morning side feels almost reverent in its liveliness, with lata mangeshkar's otherworldly singing voice echoing in a trancelike repetition across a melody that blooms and flourishes and recedes like a wave thru so many different emotional states, joyous and contemplative and deeply melancholy. in comparison evening side is a lot spacier and slightly colder, with the sampling much less pronounced, emphasizing both a kind of sleepiness and an inherent loneliness in the night. its much more noticeably sparse and feels almost like an echo of the morning side, but its still a gorgeous track on its own terms. i think its interesting how the album on a whole takes influence from ragas in such a way that it demands an experientiality of time passing in itself rather than just being placed within certain periods of time. an implied progression from morning to evening, days and nights passing in continuous rhythm with the motions of the sun, synchronizing with one another in a place where every moment of history returns to itself and must be affirmed in its entirety as such. beginning to end to beginning, both eternally unchanged and irreparably different every time. transient and immortal all at once.