“Ōhelo”
By Darshan Jesrani
Written and produced by Darshan Jesrani. Copyright ©2011 Startree Music
Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, New York, deejay Darshan Jesrani currently lives and works in Brooklyn. In 1999, he and Morgan Geist formed the group Metro Area, whose eponymous debut was named one of Rolling Stone’s top 50 albums of 2002.
Esopus 17 (Fall 2011)
Esopus CD #17: Fear Itself
After our readers submitted their most intense irrational fears for our fifth subscriber invitational, we invited 13 musicians to select one fear to use as inspiration for a new song for this issue’s CD. Some of the tracks convey these phobias with absolute gravity: For instance, Edinburgh-based band Meursault delivers a haunting and heartbreaking take on Wendy Cohen’s anxiety about dropping dead on the street and leaving loved ones behind (“No Knock at the Door”). But there are lighter approaches, too, like Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt’s “Spew,” a raucous number inspired by Dave Miranda’s fear of vomiting in public. Whether serious or comic, sad or buoyant, all of these wonderful songs prove that fear is as rich and potent a source of musical inspiration as any other human emotion.