Ana Mandhi by Alexandros Papamarkou

Ana Mandhi is the Proto-Dravidian word for male monkey and according to one theory, Sanskritized to Hanuman, the name for the Hindu monkey deity.

During my travels through North-India the Hanuman temples always seemed to produce some sort of dissonant sounds. Perhaps this was coincidental, maybe because of their musical 'incompetence' or intentionally their way of communicating some form of disfigurement or monkey-like.

This project is using this experience as a starting point and exploring the hand-pump harmonium as an instrument and its resonant body, using a multi-sampler, several different mics simultaneously, combined with layers of my voice. All takes are improvisations.

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