Angad Berar

Echodelick records is proud to present the vinyl release of Angad Berar’s debut studio album ‘Elephants on the Beach’. Angad is based in New Delhi, India. It is available on clear vinyl with magenta and aqua splatter. Edition of 300.

Angad uses analog instruments and samples to create a laid-back sound informed by kosmiche, Hindustani, and late 60’s psyche jams. Berar focuses on playing melodies and sounds that “sound full”. He also started “consciously” listening to Hindustani classical music and became inspired by Ustad Asad Ali Khan’s style of performing the rudra veena.

The instrumental album stays lucid in its attempt to tell a story of a wide-eyed, open-hearted protagonist on a journey of self-discovery, aided by wisdom imparted by thinkers such as Mooji, Albert Hoffman and Alan Watts. While the title is taken from an incident that Berar experienced while in Anjuna, he adds, “[The album is] more of an ode to what ‘reality’ is. The scary, as well as the beautiful part of it, is that each one of us has a different perception of reality in general.”

He says about the sequence of the record, “The listener enters the album with a certain mood, goes through a few transitions/experiences and exits with a similar mood, but with the difference that they have seen a lot of funk in the middle. At least that’s what I tried to achieve.” New Delhi-based producer Ashrey Goel mixed and mastered Elephants on the Beach, giving it a shimmering edge throughout.

Stick around for some late night beach strollin’, locomotive trippin, leaves rustlin’ inspired sonic shindigs.

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