Sundarbans - Entangled Kinships

"Sundarbans: Entangled Kinships” is an album of listening, drifting, and becoming-with the tidal forest where land and sea dissolve into one another. Recorded across the Sundarbans delta, these soundscapes capture fragile encounters between human presence and the more-than-human voices of water, insects, birds, and machines.

Across six movements, the album traces an arc of coexistence: the rhythmic dialogue of oar and tide, the friction of engines with the murmurs of fish, the uneasy duet of machinery and birds, the density of a forest canopy alive with hidden calls, the spectral drift of mist carrying ghostly presences, and finally the unbroken voice of a water insect — singing in its own time, beyond us.

This work forms part of my doctoral research at RMIT University, Melbourne, where I explore ecological transformations in vulnerable mangrove landscapes through listening and sound art. It is not a documentation, but an invitation to listen with entangled kinships — to hear how the Sundarbans speaks, resists, and remembers.

released September 13, 2025

Supported by RMIT University, Melbourne

Field recording and composition: Pratyay Raha

Album Art Photograph: Kousiki Jana

Fieldwork Assistance: Dipanjan Mishra & Siddhanta Goswami