The Huffington Post recently lauded 'The Unraveled' as "...haunting... breathtakingly beautiful, delightful and superb, financing a sense of surreal aural melancholy across the music...its rich timbre discharges lenses of quince-colored light shot through with a myriad of scintillating points of luminescence that form and vanish, like a bluish glow fading to indigo." (Randy Radic, Huffington Post). Straddling cultures as a first-generation Indian American hailing from Philly, producer ash.ØK was as influenced by gritty boom bap of artists like Nas, Pharcyde, DJ Premier and Notorious B.I.G. as by the ancient music of his parent’s Indian Catholic heritage. The incongruity of continental divide and generations is what forges ash.ØK’s distinct sound, merging traditional Eastern themes and chord progressions with rich urban compositions of layered complexity. As a musician, ash.ØK weaves disparate threads of genre— electronica, trap, hip-hop, folk, blues, and ambient—into a fine tapestry of sonic innovation. His latest album, 'The Unraveled', examines themes of melancholia and the dissolution of love within intimate relationships. Through the use of opposing perspectives, ash.ØK embraces polarized storytelling of different factions as relationships shatter at pressure points and deteriorate from internal conflicts of the individual and their character over time. This theme is brought home in deftly crafted, artfully arranged, and lushly layered textiles of sound. With lost whispers, harmonies, and artifacts from the recording process buried deep in the mix, ash.ØK produces with this sense of discovery in mind: there are layers of complexity in the repetition. The Unraveled begets critical mass in its fusion of disparate genres with orchestral and urban instrumentation, haunting vocals, and synth production. The album, which ash.ØK produced over a period of two years, features collaborations with notable artists from Los Angeles, New York, Peru, and the Philippines, some of whom have performed with Hans Zimmer, A.R. Rahman, Ariana Grande, Lauryn Hill and the Foo Fighters. The Unraveled was engineered by Grammy-winning Jeff Chestak (Kanye West, T.I., Linkin Park, N.E.R.D., Justin Timberlake) and Ryan Schwabe (King Britt, Baauer, Ellie Goulding, RJD2). [Sara Jayne Crow]