Wild City #216: Eashwar Subramanian

Ever since Bangalore's Eashwar Subramanian started supplementing his white-collar professional life by putting out music nearly 5 years ago, he has done so relentlessly. A regular fixture in the country's ambient music landscape, Eashwar's work sets itself apart from the rest in the genre by creating placating dissipative soundscapes primarily through minimal melodies than abstract textures – naturally borrowing from the cinematic and new age.

Initially putting out the work at a staggering pace primarily over SoundCloud, the composer-producer has lately started to consolidate his work with distinct EPs and albums, each featuring a minute but noticeable growth or experiment into the new.

For his Wild City mix, Eashwar gives a snapshot of that journey as he curates an all-originals set that connects music all the way from his 2018's 'Ambient Hamlet' with the just-released 'String Theory' – his latest 5-track EP which sees his melodic motifs dissipate between percussive beds of plucked strings (on 'Fireflies'), pitched mallets (on the standout 'Mountainsong') or reversing samples of ethnic strings (on 'Turkish Wedding').

Consequently, the mix highlights the different ways Subramanian can offer pacification and invite introspection whether with simple piano melodies, like on 'Verdant Nature' from 'Polar Drift', or, in a rare instance, by actually choosing to paint with abstract texture, like on 'Expanse' from the latest EP 'String Theory'.

"The word "ambient music" typically conjures up images of monophonic sounds enveloping an atmosphere. Having forayed into creating ambient music for the past 5 years, I have largely experimented with ambient music through blends that mix melodious tones with atmospherics. I hope you enjoy listening to the mix and wish that the music transports you to a state of mind that helps you relax and embrace peace and goodness around you." – Eashwar Subramanian

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Tracklisting

Shillong Pass - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Random Hues)
Oriental Garden - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Social Isolation Vol.1)
Verdant Nature - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Polar Drift)
Silent Brook - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Polar Drift)
Arctic Bloom - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Arctic Bloom)
Silent Woods - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Arctic Bloom)
Far Away Land - Eashwar Subramanian (Album: Ambient Hamlet)
Spring Ostinato - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Ambient Hamlet)
Seashore Story - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Ambient Hamlet)
Carried Away - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Songs from Ether)
Offering At Dawn - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Across The River)
The Shrine - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Random Hues)
Shepherds of Yore - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : Arctic Bloom)
Countryside - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : String Theory)
Mountainsong - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : String Theory)
Firefly - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : String Theory)
The Expanse - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : String Theory)
Turkish Wedding - Eashwar Subramanian (Album : String Theory)