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THREE years ago, the Delhi-born, US-based composer Arushi Jain quit her comfortable tech job in San Francisco and headed to New York to become an artist full-time. Since then, it’s not gone too badly. Jain, who styles herself the ‘Modular Princess’ after her musical practice, released Under The Lilac Sky in 2021, a beautiful meditation rooted in the Indian classical tradition that also veers into seriously mind-expanding psychedelia. The album fell victim to the pandemic but has since come to resonate with agrowing audience who appreciate transportive synth jams, including James Holden, Arooj Aftab, Floating Points and Suzanne Ciani.
“I think I’m finally over ‘San Francisco Arushi’ and entering adifferent version of me that’s craving human connection abit more,” says Jain, 30, from her Brooklyn apartment acouple of days before 2024 begins. “In San Francisco you had to make things happen because there wasn’t much going on. In New York Iwant to meet more artists and write with them.”