Rafiq Bhatia "Environments" LP

New York composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia seeks to shatter preconceptions about how much can be said without a word-and, for that matter, who can say it. His music has been described by the New York Times as “one of the most intriguing figures in music today.” In 2014, Bhatia became a member of the band Son Lux.

The new album from composer and guitarist Rafiq Bhatia, Environments conjures worlds of improvised, organic sound that bloom, melt, crackle and combust—an otherworldly portrait of the world around us. A collaboration with trumpeter Riley Mulherkar and Bhatia’s Son Lux bandmate, drummer Ian Chang, the nearly hour-long session heralds Bhatia’s full-circle return to improvised music after a decade-long foray into meticulous studio-based constructions.