Wild City #216: Eashwar Subramanian

Wild City

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'. For more information and tracklisting: https://www.thewildcity.com/mixes/19944-wild-city-216-eashwar-subramanian