Tashi Wada What Is Not Strange? Vinyl LP 2024

1. What is Not Strange?
2. Grand Trine
3. Revealed Night
4. Asleep to the World
5. Flame of Perfect Form
6. Under the Earth
7. Subaru
8. Time of Birds
9. Calling
10. Plume
11. This World's Beauty

The first full-length album by Los Angeles-based composer Tashi Wada in over five years, comprising his most far-reaching and impassioned music to date. Written and recorded over a period that encompassed the death of his father and the birth of his daughter, the album sees Wada reflecting inward to explore broad narratives being alive, mortality, finding one's place in the world-through new modes of ecstatic, song-based expression. While the denser forms, stark contrasts, and overt surreality may carry a different weight than Wada's earlier work, which elicited perceptual effects with minimal means, the heart of What Is Not Strange? is still in experimentation and unforeseen outcomes.