gardening by amar lal

a thousand beauties fill the garden:
the scent of roses,
the murmur of water
gently flowing in the stream…
but how can one describe
the indescribable?
-rumi

a series of moments for grounded clarity to offer respite, contemplation, and reflection in an overexploited environment. a reconsidered creative process sowing purpose among disparate recordings.

gardening is the debut solo offering from our friend amar lal also of the dynamic post-hardcore project big ups. since moving to oakland, ca amar has taken deeper journeys through his field recordings, his audio journals, and traced a path from "privilege" to "stasis" that bring us into his ways of seeing, his doors of perception, his indescribable.

il faut cultiver notre jardin
-voltaire

Tracklist

1.	privilege (2015)	4:38

2.	a (2016)	0:33

3.	timescales etude ii (2018)	2:21

4.	sunday i: eyes closed (2018)	5:28

5.	b (2016)	0:43

6.	timescales etude i (2017)	1:51

7.	f/g (2016)	0:45

8.	learning to surf (2016)	3:39

9.	stolen time (2015)	3:06

10.	e (2016)	0:47

11.	stasis (2018)	4:26

Credits

released September 28, 2019

cover photo of maya lin's "storm king wavefield"
mastered by nick dooley
all music by amar lal

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.