HOW ARUSHI JAIN FELL IN LOVE WITH MODULAR SYNTHS AND ENTERED THE “BETWEEN-WORLD”

Andrew Male

IT’S THE middle of September and Arushi Jain is in her Brooklyn flat, packing for this year’s Sustain-Release festival in New York state. She moved to Brooklyn in April from San Francisco, where she had been creating music for the past four years. “New York is a more external city,” she says. “You’re always thinking, ‘What am I missing out on?’ San Francisco was…” she pauses to think of the correct expression. “A great place to write, a great place to be introverted.” The music Jain creates, previously as OSE, and more recently under her own name on her gorgeous 2021 album Under The Lilac Sky, is simultaneously introspective and expansive, blending the Hindustani morning ragas of her Delhi birthplace with the ’80s West Coast new age synth modulations of her…

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