About the Artist:
Anjali Rose is a multidisciplinary composer, vocalist, and performance artist based in New York. She identifies as bi racial with an Indian father and American mother of European descent and expresses this dual nature often in her compositions. Her work lives at the intersection of honesty, experimentation, and spiritual inquiry. Drawing from a lineage of Indian classical music, folk traditions, pop music, jazz, and ambient electronics, her performances blur the lines between concert, ritual, and installation. Anjali performs with voice, electronics, and acoustic instrumentation like classical guitar, piano, harmonium, vocal pedals, and more. She has toured in over 15 different countaries, performed at Basilica Hudson’s 24-Hour Drone Festival alongside Dragonchild (formerly of the Debo Band), and has shared or written compositions for award-winning independent films such as “Gabriela”. This short film was selected for the Netflix x LALIFF Indigenous Latino Fellowship and was later qualified for Academy Award consideration. Aside from producing her own music Anjali also collaborates with various artists around the world. More recently Anjali sang on The Kronos Quartet’s “Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” which featured Allison Russell; Iggy Pop, Willie Nelson, Laurie Anderson, and many more.
Artist Statement:
I make sense of the world through music and film. Every song, jam, or video has an arc, it exists through time and in turn reminds me that it is always passing. It helps me see what logic or thoughts have obscured and touches upon the root of emotion. For me this medium is a fundamental means of connection and survival, even without producing sound there is always a soundtrack playing in life, be it car horns on a New York intersection, or crickets in a field on a summer evening. Through composition, improvisation, and performance I explore how sound can hold what language cannot and how that relationship can bring groups of people from any walk of life together. Drawing from diasporic musical traditions and experimental practices, I weave voice, electronics, and live instrumentation into textured soundscapes that feel at once ancient and future-facing with the intention of bringing people together and re-connecting with our true self.
In scoring films and performing live, I’m interested in music as an act of translation — between self and ancestry, grief and beauty, ritual and resistance. Each performance becomes a living archive: a space where identity reverberates, fractures, and re-forms through resonance and rhythm.
