This is Kolmine Collective — a bunch of musician friends joining a trio of electroinic music makers from Kolkata. Check out the intro to season 2 to know where the music came from.
Author: shailpik
Welcome to the Blockchain Revolution
I have entered the NFT art community and thus, the blockchain space. i won’t go into the technicalities of the blockchain but I am beyond bullish on the technology. I was too young to do anything about Bitcoin when it first emerged. But this time round, things are very different! I can see the blockchain…
The Many Faces Of Truth
Truth is like a multifaceted jewel. We all see different faces of it. When we share our interpretations of a phenomenon, we get to collectively see a larger part of the whole truth. In this way, by sharing and imbibing different versions of this reality, we gain the ability to perceive the diamond type truth…
Single Release: True Sight
Completing a full year of release and starting a brand new year in the middle of this global awakening situation, carries with it a mixed feeling of being lost in the noise and yet merging with the global conscious and actually being heard. I made the release on schedule on the 5th of the month…
Single Release: Drowning In Love
Presenting the 12th consecutive full moon release! Feels very satisfying to have reached here. And to think that we have only made it till 2013 so far! Drowning In Love was composed in a beautiful little ground floor apartment near Golpark in Kolkata, my second move in the city. The background of the track is…
EP Release: Fragments
Greetings from a fairly surreal time on planet Earth when the global population has entered into self-imposed social isolation. COVID-19 AKA the Corona Virus has done what nobody thought was possible. It has stopped the human civilisation dead in its tracks. As with everything else in the manifest realm, it has a dark side and…
Musings In Isolation
I love the desolate afternoons that remind me of my calm mountain lover. I love the sound of the birds overtaking the intermittent automobile. I love that silent feeling of the evening creeping in. I love the stillness that sets in much before the city has slept. The smell of fear is lost in the…
Coping with Covid-19: Strategies For Dealing With Social Isolation
The origin of this post was on Instagram, where I had shared some pointers on my stories that talked about lessons I have learned from dealing with my own shadow life. It was triggered by a beautiful conversation between Tim Ferris and therapist Lori Gottlieb, Check out the episode and the podcast in general. It’s…
EP Release: Duality
One of the greatest joys in this world is to create something and then release it into the world to be discovered and cherished. Thus, with each full mon release, I derive that joy of setting my musical creations free for the world to experience. So, it gives me great joy as I release 10th…
EP Release: Quarks
On the 9th day of this month of February, I give you my 9th consecutive full moon release – Quarks. Inspired by my hundreds of hours of listening to the likes of Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, The Prodigy, Underworld — this two-track release really stands out from my usual sounds. It is reminiscent of that…
Album Release: Valley Peak
Greetings on the first Full Moon of the decade! To celebrate, I give you a 3 track release containing some jungle sounds, some drum and bass and a very special psychedelic dub style collaboration with Mr Pink AKA Pink Dimension AKA Jovis Burk on the Didgeridoo! 2013 was a year of many new beginnings and…
Album Release:Outer Explorations
For the final release of 2019, I give you a psy-breaks called Outer Explorations. Before 5/80 (Song of the Warrior Poet) was made, the idea of a continuous album made as a single project was tested out with this project. As mentioned in the announcement post for Warrior Poet, I wasn’t sure I would release…
We are Decentralising
I often feel that the world is slowly decentralising. And I am not talking about Anarchism or syndicalism a la Noam Chomsky. It is far smaller than that. But it is also trending. Allow me to elaborate. It is in the rise of the boutique outlet. The middle class finally has middle-class heroes. They run…
Album Release: Home Leaving
Blessings be on this full moon in Taurus. As we let go of our past patterns and make way for a brand new wave of pure divine energy, I too am feeling the push to let go of a lot of my old patterns that no longer serve me. In doing so, I have realised…
Beatomber – 30 Days of Music
Starting today, I will be posting a new piece of music every day till the end of November. Below is the first one. If this goes well, I will post the full versions on Youtube. I was looking at various artists participating in #inktober and some musicians were also doing #beattober and then there’s Joe…
Single Release: The Path
Greetings my beloved friends and blessings be for the festive season that we are currently celebrating here in Kolkata, India. It was a powerful full moon this time and it set the perfect mood for me to gear for the release of this month’s piece. We have here my fifth music release in the ShadowBlink…
The Light and its shadow
Residing in the world as it is right now, it is going to be impossible to not comment on the socio-politico-economic situation. The general notion is one of panic, chaos, doom and struggle. I am very clear on the fact that I will not accept such energies into my field because I like how it…
Album Release: Song of the Warrior Poet
This full moon feels like the completion of a cycle and the beginning of a new one. This is so for me because this album was something of a personal landmark in my journey as a music producer. And in it, I have poured a lot of love. This album sounds like something you can…
September Release Coming Up!
So we are already at the 4th release and how exciting is that! It’s getting better and better now because with every new release we get closer to the music I am making right now, which to an artist is always going to be special. Now, I wanted to quickly jot down a few thoughts…
Crescent Featured on Bangin Beats
ShadowBlink’s July release for this year, the EP Crescent, was featured on the Indian music news website Bangin Beats for their round up of the top 10 Indian independent electronic releases of July 2019. I am deeply grateful for the mention alongside stalwart Indian producers like Audio Pervert aka Samrat, who’s also been a guide,…
Single Release: Apple Smash
For this month’s release, we have a powerful new breakbeat inspired track called Apple Smash. I was definitely thinking of the dancefloor when I made this music and it reverberates with energy that makes you want to move. That being the intention, I hope this track finds you in high spirits and if it doesn’t…
Chapter 1: Drenched
“It was a subtle thing. Like rain but finer. It is hard to describe. You just had to be there. Billions experienced it. It went on forever. Everything felt like it would be soaked after some time. But it wasn’t that kind of rain.”
Prologue: The Floating Man
“This is going to sound rather cliched, but where exactly am I?” The man asked this with a look of polite curiosity. He was brown-skinned, but not tanned. He had a good head of hair, somewhat messy but looked like it saw the occasional hairdresser. It was a naturally enclosed area. A rock face blocking…
EP Release: Crescent
As we enter the Thunder Moon of 2019, it is time to release some more music! As promised, with the new month comes some more music from the ever-growing pile of unreleased material.
7 Years Later
Dear friend, If you’re reading this, thank you for sticking around. I am truly grateful that you did. On the 17th of June, ShadowBlink will complete 7 years of official existence. The past few years have been quiet on the public front. And that’s because life had a few things for me to experience before…
The ShadowBlink Universe
The Story is the working title of the fiction fantasy story that proceeds along with the music of ShadowBlink. See it as the universe where I proudly collect and display my fantasies, ideas for the future and their connection to the ever-evolving philosophy of my life. It is a blend of science fiction, spirituality and…
Album Release: Ab Ovo
After a lot of wondering, humming and hawing, I have finally decided that the first-ever album release under the Shadowblink project should begin at the very beginning. Thus, I name thee Ab Ovo – from the egg, from the beginning. This release is special not only because it is the very first one but also…