Something other is always more than welcome in Barn and Johnstown, PA-based Tatiana Triplin’s debut as Nondi_ on Planet Mu is just that.
“Flood City Trax is music that captures the mood of living in a town like Johnstown, and more broadly the isolation of poverty. That’s the environment these tracks came out of, after all. Johnstown is a very poor isolated small factory town in Western Pennsylvania which has a dark history of deadly floods, the most well known being the 1889 flood which was like something out of a horror story and the 1977 flood which the Triplin family survived. Johnstown has never moved past its floods, hence the nickname “Flood City”. There’s very little to do and every year the town shrinks more, and more buildings are knocked down or condemned. Everything is old but simultaneously the past seems like it has just disappeared.”
Glitchy soundscapes construct before our ears building worlds and moods ripe with tension, beauty, and escape.
