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I should cut my nails.

Keep feeding ideas to this 11 min sprawl from my upcoming full length. Excited to share all the new music with you soon.

Since you’re here, have you heard my latest playlist A LOVE SUPREME / Music For Grace? We need music to help us grieve our individual and collective losses. There isn’t much else that can meet us in our heartbreak. I hope this playlist brings you some comfort and beauty. Link in bio. Love you. Happy Holidays!

#minimoog #postpunk #dancepunk #electronica #vandanamusic #vandana #2023playlist #vandanaplaylist #stopwar #analogmusic #alternativemusic taken in Brooklyn, New York by @vandamner

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3 years ago

This Hunt (TRZTN Remix) is out today.
The original carried heat and physicality. @tristan_bechet ‘s remix descends into something cavernous, more subterranean, like wandering through the wreckage after the ritual has already happened. I love it 🥀 Out everywhere. Link in bio.
Single artwork shot by @elisabet_davidsdottir
Hair stylist @petergrayhair
MUA @charlottewillermakeup
No AI. Just us humans, start to finish.
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#thishunt #TRZTN #VANDANAmusic #remixculture #darkelectronic #cinematicmusic #atmosphericmusic #nowlistening #independentartist #deeplistening taken in Brooklyn, New York by @vandamner

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5 months ago

The serpent’s loose 🐍 This Hunt is out now.
Streaming links in bio.
This is just the beginning ~ a prelude to the full-length arriving next year.

Creating music starts as a hunch, a pulse you follow without a map. Releasing it is falling in love and wrestling with doubt at the same time. All of it, the sharp, the soft, the in-between, is worth it.

None of this would exist without the people who dreamed it with me. And to each person here, your support and love run deeper than you probably realise. Thank you 🖤

This Hunt credits ~

Electric and baritone guitar played by Avi Bortnick @avibortnick ~ always game to dive into the strange, with a rhythmic openness like no other.

Mixed by Cian Riordan @cianthreetimes ~ a brilliant artist, engineer, mixer and a beautiful human to work with. You never cut corners, no matter how long it takes, and you bring that razor-edged skill with a
big heart and zero ego. Sick combo.

Mastered by Ruairi O’Flaherty @nomograph.mastering ~ unwavering
finesse from start to finish, with an ability to bake in mixes like they’ve existed all along.

Single artwork shot by Elisabet Davidsdottir @elisabet_davidsdottir ~
your avant-forward eye and openness to play made this twisted vision a reality. I have loved our endless laughter escapes in the middle of creating - honestly some of my favourite moments.

Manuel, Patrick, Marisa and Joseph Mueller ~ you’ve been in the trenches with me through many twists. Your energy, instincts and generosity have held this vision on its wild track. Big love.

This Hunt is written, produced and performed by VANDANA

#avantpop #newmusicfriday #thishunt #cinematicpop #avantgardestyle
#contemporarysurrealism #alternativemusic #electronicmusic
#brooklynmusicians #vandanamusic taken in Brooklyn, New York by @vandamner

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a year ago

Visualizer for VANDANA’s “This Hunt” Remix by TRZTN now on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/mNaXJchkJ0E

Footage shot by Fadi Moris @fadimoris
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#thishunt #trztn #vandanamusic #deeplistening by @vandamner

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4 months ago

Six months ago, I released This Hunt. It has played in rooms I’ll never see.
Give me one word for how it makes you feel when you hear it now.
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First and last photo by @elisabet_davidsdottir
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#vandana #vandanamusic #thishunt #avantpop #artpop #alternative #cinematicmusic #nowlistening #darkpop #newmusicartist #bandcampartist taken in Brooklyn, New York by @vandamner

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6 months ago

Really excited to share that MUTTER: The Diary of a Mother, a film I collaborated on a song for with Tristan Bechet @tristan_bechet who scored it, will have its World Premiere at Tribeca Festival 2026 (June 3–14).
Directed by @alphan_eseli and starring @hazarerguclu, this a powerful, and singular piece of work. Thrilled to be part of this one. More soon.
@mutterthefilm

#tribecafilmfestival #tribeca2026 #filmscore #composer #MUTTER #filmsoundtrack
#originalsoundtrack #vandana #vandanamusic by @vandamner

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6 months ago

India’s legendary singer Asha Bhosle transformed my experience of music as a young girl. She embodied boldness and sensuality in a way that felt radical. Her voice held multitudes. She challenged the narrow script of the pious, submissive woman so often on dispaly in mainstream Indian cinema and replaced it with something far more raw through her mischief and rebellion. Her songs were a refuge where I could unapologetically explore my own singing voice.I owe her more than I can articulate when it comes to my own expression as a singer and musician. Rest in peace, Asha Bhosle. Your voice tilted my musical landscape.

In my own small homage, I wrote Ahsa (her name spelled backwards) for my 2019 EP Contra - a collection of modernist covers of classic Indian and Pakistani songs that were always booming through my parents’ cassette player.
@asha.bhosle @rollingstonein

#ashabhosle #vandana #contraEP #indianmusic #bollywoodmusic #southasianartists #womeninmusic #playbacksinger #avanatpop #alternativemusic #raatbaaki #homegrown #vogueindia taken in Brooklyn, New York by @vandamner

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6 months ago

Couldn’t resist posting another slice of this.
Tiny Desk entry, featuring the unreal @lexsadler @channelyusyama @mreliasmeister @atellerwho @isleymusic
Filmed by @jeffelstone
Recording engineer @jhswartwin
Mix engineer @cianthreetimes
Full take at the link in bio.
~ Begin Again is a song from my upcoming LP Future Flesh. I wrote it after watching the film Precious. I remember feeling completey undone by it because it captures a kind of universal brutality. This song is about resilience and the instinct to return to yourself even after feeling goes numb. At its core is a longing to be remade, to feel something real enough to restore belief in oneself, in connection, and in the possibility of beginning again.
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#nprtinydesk #tinydesk #liveinstudio #vandanamusic #nprmusic #vandanamusic #acousticsession #nycmusicians #artrock #newmusicdiscovery #womeninmusic #soundart taken in Brooklyn, New York by @vandamner

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8 months ago

We recorded this the day before the storm hit NYC in January. The city felt strangely suspended that afternoon. Two rehearsals to build an acoustic arrangement, and this team brought so much precision and sensitivity it honestly floored me. What a beautiful day.
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Moments from my @nprmusic Tiny Desk entry, Begin Again, from my upcoming LP Future Flesh. Full video via link in bio.

CREDITS :
Lex Sadler on bass @lexsadler
Avishai Rozen on drums @atellerwho
Yusuke Yamamoto on Wurlitzer @channelyusyama
Elias Meister on guitar @mreliasmeister
John Isley on saxophone @isleymusic
Videographer - Jeff Elstone @jeffelstone
Recording engineer - Jeffrey Swart @jhswartwin
Audio mix by Cian Riordan @cianthreetimes
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Photos by @patrickermlich and @manuelgrecony
#TinyDesk #TinyDeskContest #NPRTinyDesk #NPRMusic #TinyDeskContest #ArtPop #AvantPop #ExperimentalPop #ArtRock #NYCMusic #LiveSession #IndieArtist #VandanaMusic taken in Brooklyn, New York by @vandamner

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I spent the turn of the year and my birthday in the English countryside gathered with my siblings, their partners, and three fierce little nieces. Unpretentious and full of nourishment, it grounded me in the medicine of being held by people who know your history , in shared meals, inside jokes, three small hurricanes tugging me firmly back into the present.

As we step into this year, I’m holding close the truth that everyone we pass is carrying something unseen. Grief and beauty coexist. We are capable again and again of surprising ourselves, of choosing care in a world that keeps asking us to harden, of choosing something braver than reflex.

This year, I’m choosing presence and curiosity. Towards the people we love, towards the ones we don’t understand yet and towards ourselves when we’re still figuring things out.

Thank you for being here. For listening. For loving music in a way that still feels alive and human. That exchange matters to me more than I can say. A new album is coming this year. It’s charged and fully lived in. I feel electric inside it, and I’m really excited to share with you what’s arriving.

May this year bring us moments of real connection, even in unexpected places., And ask something honest of us.

Love y’all x

#vandanamusic #rooted #albuminprogress #independentartists #musicasconnection taken in Devon, England by @vandamner

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9 months ago

This Hunt official video is out today! A huge thank you to @kaltblut_magazine for the premiere - beautifully written too 🖤
Visual artist Carlito Dalceggio and I had been circling a collaboration for years. Something visceral, subtly occult. His visual language is among the wildest, most intuitively alive I’ve ever encountered, and I knew his hand could carry the witchy pulse of this song. He is also deeply generous in spirit, it shows in every frame.
Watch the video on YouTube and stream it on all platforms. I hope it gets under your skin 💉Link in bio

Illustrations by @carlito.dalceggio
Photos for collages shot by @davidterranova and @elisabet_davidsdottir
Creative direction + edit by @vandamner
Artwork capture and edits by @eljube
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This Hunt written, performed and produced by @vandamner
Guitars @avibortnick
Mixed by @cianthreetimes
Mastered by Ruairi O’Flaherty @nomograph.mastering

#vandanamusic #avantpop #cinematicpop #visualalchemy #musicdiscoveries #independantartist #surrealistcinema #avantgarde #experimentalvideo #undergroundmusic by @vandamner

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Made a reel to feed a song about the hunt for meaning in a culture obsessed with overexposure. Predator, prey, and algorithm, all caught in the same loop.
How’s This Hunt finding you?
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#thishunt #vandanamusic #vandana #avantpop #altpop #alternativemusic #darkwaveaesthetic #independentartists #cinematicpop #nowlistening by @vandamner

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