Neram Pularumbol (As The Dawn Breaks) is Sunken Cages’ long-awaited follow-up to his 2021 debut on On The Corner Records.
Over the past 5 years he has developed an idiosyncratic production style that blends South Indian folk instruments with electronic drums, dark synths, drones and industrial textures to create a freshly deconstructed global club music.
Evoking resynthesis – a processing method in electronic music that analyzes sounds to extract their fundamental component, as a guiding metaphor, he has produced tracks that confronted conservative views of culture as something frozen, solidified and sanctified, thus resistant to change.
For this collaborative album, he tapped genre-blurring music producers, vocalists and multi-instrumentalists from all over the globe. Rani Jambak, an Indigenous Indonesian composer, producer, instrument designer and vocalist, brought haunting vocals, chants to “Athiraavile.” Indo-Californian producer Kush Arora, known for fusing deconstructed Punjabi music with Industrial, Dancehall, reworked “Idakka” for a noisier and more propulsive narrative. Kuza, a Classically trained South African vocalist, bridged the gap between Gqom and a ghostly Aria.
Additionally, remixers Lila Tirando a Violeta (Uruguay), Masma Dream World (Gabon/US), and El Kontessa (Egypt), along with Mahorka staples Weldroid (Hungary/Sweden), and Moki McFly (Phillipines) brought their distinctive signature sounds to reinvent the original tracks.
All tracks written/arranged/produced by Sunken Cages (Lungees & Combat Boots Music, ASCAP), 2024-2026, Philadelphia, USA
Mastered by Weldroid (Tamas Zsiros), May 2026, Stockholm, Sweden
Graphic design by Angel Draganov
“Deep gratitude to Mahorka Records for believing in this project and to all the amazing guest collaborators – Rani Jambak, Kush Arora, Masma Dream World, Lila Tirando a Violeta, El Kontessa, Weldroid, Moki McFly & Kuza – for bringing the fire!”
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https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/neram-pularumbol-as-the-dawn-breaks
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