Hounds of Pamir Ruhail Qaisar invites Rana Ghose – 04/06/2021

Rana Ghose is a curator, economist, writer, and filmmaker. He steers REProduce Artists, a collective of artists, organizers, and content creators that produce interventions in non traditional spaces, engaging with music and video in modular, sequential plays – all taking advantage of the aesthetics of spaces as varied as former mills, bakeries, and hotels, while producing them into five hour embedded experiences. His doctoral research was on risk construction in a regulatory context, and the underlying dynamics of how we explore uncertainty with regards to new technologies. The theoretical framework of this research underpins his explorations within live music presentation models and how patronage and sponsorship interact within the uncertainty that pop culture engineering presents. His current focus is building and managing REProduce Live, a live streaming platform inspired by the signature event series he oversees, REProduce Listening Room. He is currently based between New Delhi, India, and Halifax, Canada.

This piece was developed in spurts between June 2019 and May 2021 – a document of an episodic distraction that would unfold while editing video for a variety of deployments and needs. Sparsely woven within are voice messages from anonymous contributors, as sourced from a call for submissions.  The request was to deliver a brief personal take on the emotional landscape of early May 2021 in India, a period that witnessed the height of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in this country.  The choices in music both reflect and juxtapose the state of the nation over this period, as well as these voice messages.  The choices also serve to do neither.

Tracklist:

1. A Bôlha – Rosas 1 (Live)
2. A$AP Rocky – LVL
3. Aastha TV Live Video Stream (24.5.21)
4. Ashram In Poona (Film)
5. Bad Brains – Pay To Cum
6. Basile – Il Tubo Dell’anno
7. Bathory – Sacrifice
8. Benjamin S – Digesbukin
9. Big L – Freestyle (WKCR Radio 23.10.93)
10. Black Sabbath – Neon Knights
11. Boredoms – Bod
12. Brigitte Bardot – Saint Tropez
13. Brutal Truth – Walking Corpse
14. Caetano Veloso – De Cara/Eu Quero Essa Mulher
15. Cambodia, Pol Pot And The Khmer Rouge (Television Documentary)
16. Carpenters – Superstar
17. Cat Power – In This Hole (“The Covers Record” Version)
18. Chamatkar Church TV – सबसे ख़तरनाक दुष्टआत्मा देखकर || हो जाएगें हैरान आप (19.9.19)
19. Chico Magnetic Band – To Where I Belong
20. Children Of Darkness (Television Documentary)
21. Coachwhips – Evil Son
22. Deerhoof – Holy Night Fever (Live)
23. Deicide – Revocate The Agitator
24. Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance Vs. Judas Priest (Television Documentary)
25. Earth – Divine And Bright (Feat. Kurt Cobain & Kelly Canary)
26. Earth – Song 4
27. Electric Wizard – Burnout
28. FBI No. Q 042 (Jonestown Field Recording 18.11.78)
29. George Jones – Yearning (With Jeanette Hicks)
30. Gescom – Le Shark
31. Ghostface Killah – Good (Feat. Trife Da God & Mr. Maygreen)
32. Guided By Voices – Tractor Rape Chain
33. Guitar Wolf – Roaring Blood
34. Hanatarash – Acid Surfin Nazimetal
35. Hanatarash – I Like Slave
36. Hanatarash – My No´ Is 9999999999
37. Hanatarash – Total Retardation
38. International Gorillay (Film)
39. Iron Claw – Clawstrophobia
40. Jimmy Gordon – Walter L
41. Johnny Guitar – Bangkok By Night
42. Julianna Barwick – Beached
43. Mark Sultan – Three Days
44. Meat Puppets – Teenager(s)
45. My Bloody Valentine – Feed Me With Your Kiss
46. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Barstool Blues
47. No Age – Sleeper Hold
48. OM – On The Mountain At Dawn
49. Pan Ron – Pros Chang Reiy
50. Polish Air Force Flight 1549 CVR Recording (10.4.10)
51. Rana Ghose – t1.0-9/229649_10150750346185317_1608763_n.jpg
52. Roberto Pregadio – Iena Sequence
53. Rustie – Your Goddezz (Demo)
54. Saing Saing Maw – [Unknown Title]
55. Sir Lord Baltimore – Lady Of Fire
56. Skip Spence – All Come To Meet Her
57. Spiritual Science Research Foundation – Speaking In Tongues/Demonic Possession (Instructional Video)
58. Sporting Life – Badd
59. Sroeng Santi – Pai Na Pai
60. Story Of A Junkie (Film)
61. Tetragrammacide – Pulsating Sudarshan Gammadion Of Aiwasstronic Fishnu
62. Tetragrammacide – Transmutation Of The Ego And Flesh
63. The Deep Set – That’s The Way Life Goes
64. The Louvin Brothers – The River Of Jordan
65. The Modern Lovers – Ride Down On The Highway (Demo)
66. Trevor McNamara – Jackie’s Thing (From The Pop Opera “Piano”)
67. Ubaldo Continello – Shit Sushi
68. [Unknown Artist] – Happy Meeting
69. Various Field Recordings of Glossolalia
70. Various Field Recordings of Salvia Divinorum Ingestion
71. Vic Chesnutt – Speed Racer
72. Waipod Phetsuphan – Ding Ding Dong
73. Will Oldham – One With The Birds (VPRO Radio 12.11.99)
74. Yo Yo Ma – The Cello Suites (No. 1, Allemande)
75. Your Old Droog & Wiki – We Like Ourselves (Prod. Black Milk)
76. ยาหม่องบริบูรณ์บาล์ม (Televison Commercial)