Introducing Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith's Collab Project - Disiniblud

Domino’s Smugglers Way imprint is pleased to introduce Disiniblud, the captivating new collaborative project of the composers/producers/multi-instrumentalists Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith. Nina and Rachika were drawn to one another like mirror images or two sisters reuniting after a lifetime of separation. Four years ago, the artists met in Brooklyn's two-block–by–two-block Maria Hernandez Park after fan-girling each other’s music online. Dishing about messy post-lockdown long-distance lesbianism, heartfelt investments in Buddhist and Hindu philosophies, and a shared high-school love of the Eternal Sunshine OST, the two found their surface similarities gesturing toward a deeper shared existential worldview.

Their kinship—which Rachika describes originating from some “inner-child sisterhood place”—is the heart of their fairytale-like self-titled LP, due out July 18th via Smugglers Way. The two’s self-described “wordless conversation,” the album orbits such themes as mortality, reinvention through destruction, and sublimating fractured histories into music—all resulting in a work that suggests sweeping transformation can come from embracing old wounds with childlike wonder.

Alongside today’s album announcement, the duo shares Disiniblud’s first two singles, “It’s Change (ft. Willy Siegel of Ponytail, Katie Dey & Julianna Barwick)” and “Blue Rags, Raging Wind (ft. Amigone).” Rife with almost merry-go-round samples from three different vocalists, "It's Change" is a mantra of impermanence, while the neoclassical “Blue Rags, Raging Wind” and its xylophone-esque patters exemplify the album’s core of "inner childlike joy," says Rachika.

Watch the video for “It’s Change (ft. Willy Siegel, Katie Dey & Julianna Barwick) here.

Listen to “It’s Change (ft. Willy Siegel, Katie Dey & Julianna Barwick) here.

Listen to “Blue Rags, Raging Wind (ft. Amigone)” here.

Disiniblud, which features further guest appearances from Cassandra Croft, June McDoom, ASPIDISTRAFLY, and Tujiko Noriko, is available for pre-order on limited edition first pressing on carnelian orange color vinyl, standard CD and cassette with bonus remixes. Pre-order here: Dom Mart Digital.

Rachika and Nina will play a collaborative set at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN this Friday, March 28. Later this spring they will play Rewire Festival in The Hague, Netherlands together (April 3-6), and Rachika will play a solo set at Donaufestival in Krems, Austria (May 4). Stay tuned for more live dates.

Disiniblud’s album cover was art directed by Rachika and Nina and shot by Allegra Messina. A fluffy dragon head smiles out of the suburban garage of a Los Angeles backhouse, once home to both Rachika and Nina, juxtaposing fantasy against the hyper-mundane and visualizing the playful reverie of the music. The 7-foot puppet head was fabricated by hand in Los Angeles by Miles Robinson at Sara Paquette’s puppet studio. Rachika and Nina’s wings and wearables by tegdirb.