border-slipping:

all tracks based off of Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, answers given by people I love, and my own—

piano by Marc Greenspon of rube, photo taken in Big Bend National Park where I slept one night in the darkness

or else, wandering 千:

This is the debut single of JAWARI’s anticipated LP ROAD RASA.

I Took You To Botanical Gardens Until I Could Not:

This debut track “I Took You To Botanical Gardens Until I Could Not” is the first recorded collaboration between Tommy and Lagnajita, starting from a creative project assignment in an anthropology module at SOAS where they were both doing their Masters’. The poem is full of flowers, colonialism, sex, and their intersection with invasion, violence, and memory.

live at the packing plant:

field recording of last ever (!) Nashville reading at the Packing Plant with Marc Greenspon on mandolin, July 23rd 2021

i don’t know anyone here:

I swore that the last time I wrote about leaving would be the last time I wrote about leaving. Leaving follows me around. Leaving finds itself in my book. “I am not done writing about leaving,” I write in yet another poem. 
Am I leaving leaving? When will leaving leave me?  


When faced with the question “who do you know here” in the midst of a deteriorating sense of place, I force my belonging with my answer: “I don’t know anyone here.” What’s your name again? CAN YOU SAY MINE? 

all tracks written and composed by Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay 
mastered by Josh Warren 
original design by Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay and Savithri Velaga

Someday I Will Love Myself:

poem featured on track off Josh Warren’s EP “When the Sun Goes Down”

placements/tamperings:

home recordings improvised over the course of an hour with some embellishments by Marc Greenspon, featuring my words