#heaven come crashing

[bizarrobrain]

"Tetramorph" by Rachika Nayar - From "Heaven Come Crashing" (2022)

[coversart]

Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing, (2022).

[housewarningparty]

stream/purchase

[gravity-rainbow]

Rachika Nayar - "Heaven Come Crashing" (feat. maria bc)

[sonicwithar]

i know it might be a little late now to do a end-of-2022 favorites list but this album is just too beautiful and has helped me gain so much perspective

[affairesasuivre]

Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing : musiques romantiques et nébuleuses

Heaven Come Crashing est le second opus de la jeune new-yorkaise de Brooklyn Rachika Nayar. On y entendra 10 titres en clair-obscur, enveloppant l’auditeur dans une atmosphère vaporeuse riche et rassurante.

Certaines musiques atmosphériques sont souvent décrites comme cinématographiques. Parce qu’elles dessinent des horizons sonores, des ambiances desquelles nul ne serait surpris de voir émerger un personnage inattendu. Ces musiques peuvent parfois sombrer dans la facilité qu’offre toute la technologie musicale actuelle. Rachika Nayar évite avec talent cet écueil en conservant son instrument de cœur à la base de toutes ses créations.

C’est à la guitare que l’ensemble des lignes musicales prend forme. Les sons sont ensuite totalement retravaillés, par sous-couches et par couches….jusqu’à en métamorphoser totalement la texture. Une œuvre de musicienne autant que de sculptrice.

Parfois, comme sur Gayatri, la guitare se fait reconnaissable, pareil à un ilot émergé au cœur de l’océan. On s’y accroche pour s’y ressourcer avant de partir de nouveau à la dérive volontaire dans les flots sonores riches d’écume.

Durant ces brefs instants, Rachika Nayar s’inspire en lui rendant hommage au son de Steve Reich.

Le titre donnant son nom à l’album Heaven Come Crashing illustre ce tumulte construit de nappes successives. Une ligne mélodique simple (comme on le retrouvera d’ailleurs sur le morceau Sleepless) est lentement, sagement déployée. Subtilement Maria bc vient murmurer à nos oreilles déjà conquises et faussement rassurées. Une première nappe très Drum & Bass se superpose, des vagues de basses lourdes et une lame déchirante de guitare brute s’ajoutent. Succédant à l’appel envoutant d’une sirène, voila l’auditeur en pleine tempête aussi brève qu’inattendue.

L’ensemble de l’album s’écoute avec un plaisir immédiat qui ne se dément pas au fil des écoutes. Celles-ci, bien au contraire révèlent une diversité, une richesse et une subtilité que seuls les grands albums possèdent.

Rachika Nayar demeure fidèle au label NNA de sa première production Our Hands Against The Dusk (2021). Elle poursuit avec cohérence ce méticuleux travail de création, hybridant avec succès la guitare, quelques cordes et le piano avec les processus de modelage électronique du son.

Cette fusion n’est pas étrangère à la production d’un court EP intitulé « Fragments » (2021) et édité par le très pointu label RVNG Intl, lui aussi installé à Brooklyn. C’est en effet sur ce même label que des artistes aussi talentueuses que Holly Herndon ou Julia Holter se sont fait connaitre.

A l’instar de ces artistes, Rachika Nayar déploie une musique protéiforme tout à la fois romantique et nébuleuse, insouciante mais sincère, complexe tout en étant accessible.

Si le concept même d’album est de plus en plus mis à mal alors que la musique s’écoute par playlist, Heaven Come Crashing existe aussi pour convaincre de la nécessité à se laisser porter par l’ensemble des compositions voulues par l’artiste.

Nicolas Duquenne

Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing

Label : NNA Tapes Records

Date de Parution : 26 aout 2022

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“Heaven Come Crashing” by Rachika Nayar ft. maria BC

MG:

There are plenty of reference points for the swirling, cathartic, and, indeed, ethereal “Heaven Come Crashing.” It’s got the same blank nonsense coupled with gorgeous post-rock guitar as Mogwai have perfected and it’s also got the same wall of sound synth crescendos as M83 at their most emotional. But a huge part of what makes “Heaven Come Crashing” so euphoric and moving is that familiarity. At least for me, it evokes all these huge, larger than life experiences, ones I already soundtracked with fractal guitars synced to my own heaving sobs. Love, death, the sort of longing that rips your guts out -- I need big music to make sense of feelings that can’t be contained inside me, to trace the threads of suffering and connection that weave us all together in any given moment. If Belinda Carlisle insisted heaven is what we make of our life, Rachika Nayar counters that heaven can open up and shower us with bliss even at our lowest.

DV:

Unfortunately, although “Heaven Come Crashing” is also one of the most striking songs I heard this year, I am compelled to add to the reference points: the chiming synths evoke ”Let Down” (Radiohead’s best song), an explosion of emotion and drama and twinkles, that’s echoed in Rachika Nayar and maria BC’s work here - even as “Heaven Come Crashing” eschews pop structure in favor of a more linear progression. The shared goal is to overwhelm us with feeling, with an ebb and flow that also builds until it sweeps over our heads like a wave, until we lose our sense of self and surrender to a journey under the sea. Dropping IDM beats more than two minutes into a five-minute song is bold, but letting them fade with over a minute to go might be bolder still. And yet that’s where the climax lies in wait: beyond the excess, in the absence. Where we are and where we can’t yet go.

[sracha]

ravens fucked up truck

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

Wait. Hold on. I just finished my second watch of season two and I have a theory…

I think Aziraphale knew he fucked up before he ever got on that elevator.

HEAR ME OUT!

I think the moment that he heard that his big project would be the Second Coming, he instantly realized Crowley was right. As soon as the Metatron mentions the Second Coming, Aziraphale looks directly to Crowley with what I think is very-well-concealed panic. I don’t think that was a wistful gaze at what-might’ve-been. I think that was an instinctive entreaty for help from the person he trusts most in the world, followed by the immediate realization that he can’t ask for Crowley for help without letting the Metatron know something’s wrong.

Because Aziraphale KNOWS that the Second Coming is just a different flavor of Armageddon, it’s literally the rapture. There’s no planet where our boy has changed so much that he’d be willing to bring about the end of humanity, and the fact that he didn’t object to the idea instantly is important. To me, it means that Aziraphale must’ve made a split-second decision to play along. He didn’t have time to tell Crowley what was wrong, and even if he could’ve, he didn’t have enough information to put a stop to it.

Basically, I think that in the moments after the Metatron mentioned the Second Coming Aziraphale realized several things in quick succession

Crowley was right.

He and Crowley were going to have to save the world again.

If they were going to stop another apocalypse, they needed to know what they were up against.

The only way to know was to have a man on the inside.

There wasn’t time to tell Crowley any of it.

Now the question is, how does Aziraphale let Crowley know what’s going on?? Because he can’t stop Armageddon 2 (Electric Bugaloo) by himself.

[gunpowder-gemini]

FINALLY have wrestled my brain into sitting down and watching Good Omens and it is, in fact, very good!! Incredibly good!! Absolutely in love with it ♥️♥️♥️

It does, however, hurt terribly

[rose-tinted-vision]

🌹🌹🌹

From my QuanYin wip:

“Are you sure?” Hua Chengzhu asks, with that same piercing gaze that he had all those centuries ago, when he'd stumbled upon a fallen god and his subordinate and offered them a place. A shelter.

[wip ask game]

[fandomsmeantheworldtome]

Sometimes i really hate living in my country

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Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing

[the-darkgod]

its like - just from the start of the season they weren't talking, weren't communicating. aziraphale asks crowley if he would help him with gabriel (because it is the right thing to do, because aziraphale believes that crowley is - despite everything - good and nice and will do the right thing), and eventually crowley does (because hell is interested in it, because aziraphale has put himself in danger, because crowley wants to protect this bubble of peace and togetherness that they have crafted together)

so crowley helps with gabriel, of course he does, he would have never done anything different. and so, for aziraphale, of course crowley should be thrilled to realize he could be an angel again, that he could go back to heaven. aziraphale has seen him make the right choice, after all

[onlinebeast]

[big crashing sound] Did anyone else hear that!? I think God fell from the Kingdom of Heaven! Come on everyone, let's feast on his corpse until something bad happens!