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ASiH began in 1998 as a solo home-recording effort by Constantine Nakassis. Since then it has grown into a collaborative recording
project and a live outfit (currently featuring Magda Nakassis, Lucas Carscadden, and Mike Mikowicz) centered around Nakassis’ song-
writing and a shifting cast of musicians. Recordings have featured musicians from various DC-area indie bands—Andrew Black from
Georgie James/The Explosion; Justin Moyer from Supersystem/Antelope/Edie Sedgwick; Lucas Carscadden from Dead
Mechanical/Charlie Brown Gets a Valentine; Michael Mikowicz; Alex Hedstrom—as well as collaborators from the Philadelphia R&B
music scene—Elsie Muñiz—and even the South Indian film industry—Shakthisree Gopalan.
Since its first full-length, Dialogic, ASiH has seamlessly blended live instrumentation and programmed music across multiple genres:
from angular DC post-punk to electronica, from alt-country to R&B. Later albums like Autoamputation, Peripheries of Hollywood, and
Another Year in Philadelphia have perfected this blend of styles, increasingly crisscrossing genres, presenting eclectic, almost
mixtape-esque collections of songs which find their coherence not in established styles of music or instrumentation, but in their
approach to song-writing. The albums don’t play like typical records of the past. But neither is the writing process of ASiH typical.
Each album presents songs collected over years, like a scrapbook, disparate in their individual origins but coherent in their total
composition.
Their fifth full-length release, the double album In, Out, About, continues this approach to music-making. It arrives more than two
years since the release of their last album Another Year in Philadelphia (2007), drawing on material written and recorded over the
two years Nakassis spent living in South India. While the album moves between many themes and moods (largely dependent on the
collaborators), it is the movement in and out of India which characterizes the album, providing In, Out, About with a thematic feel
stronger than any of their other previous ventures. In, Out, and About continues ASiH’s collaborative, genre-blurring song-writing while
expanding the musical range with new instrumentation and styles of music (notably, frenetic percussion from Tamil folk music and
classical Carnatic-inspired violin), as well as featuring new contributors. In addition to regulars Lucas Carscadden (“Tiny Victories”,
“Black in Summer”) and Michael Mikowicz (“Water Wishes”, “Images on Tape”) are two notable new collaborators: Shakthisree
Gopalan, an up-and-coming singer in the South Indian film industry (“Days & Nights & Weeks & Months”, “Painted with the Lights”),
and Elsie Muñiz, a Philadelphia-native R&B singer (“Waiting”). Documenting the dialogue between different musicians from diverse
musical backgrounds and cultures, In, Out, and About presents ASiH at their finest, pushing the boundaries of their craft in surprising
and refreshing directions.
project and a live outfit (currently featuring Magda Nakassis, Lucas Carscadden, and Mike Mikowicz) centered around Nakassis’ song-
writing and a shifting cast of musicians. Recordings have featured musicians from various DC-area indie bands—Andrew Black from
Georgie James/The Explosion; Justin Moyer from Supersystem/Antelope/Edie Sedgwick; Lucas Carscadden from Dead
Mechanical/Charlie Brown Gets a Valentine; Michael Mikowicz; Alex Hedstrom—as well as collaborators from the Philadelphia R&B
music scene—Elsie Muñiz—and even the South Indian film industry—Shakthisree Gopalan.
Since its first full-length, Dialogic, ASiH has seamlessly blended live instrumentation and programmed music across multiple genres:
from angular DC post-punk to electronica, from alt-country to R&B. Later albums like Autoamputation, Peripheries of Hollywood, and
Another Year in Philadelphia have perfected this blend of styles, increasingly crisscrossing genres, presenting eclectic, almost
mixtape-esque collections of songs which find their coherence not in established styles of music or instrumentation, but in their
approach to song-writing. The albums don’t play like typical records of the past. But neither is the writing process of ASiH typical.
Each album presents songs collected over years, like a scrapbook, disparate in their individual origins but coherent in their total
composition.
Their fifth full-length release, the double album In, Out, About, continues this approach to music-making. It arrives more than two
years since the release of their last album Another Year in Philadelphia (2007), drawing on material written and recorded over the
two years Nakassis spent living in South India. While the album moves between many themes and moods (largely dependent on the
collaborators), it is the movement in and out of India which characterizes the album, providing In, Out, About with a thematic feel
stronger than any of their other previous ventures. In, Out, and About continues ASiH’s collaborative, genre-blurring song-writing while
expanding the musical range with new instrumentation and styles of music (notably, frenetic percussion from Tamil folk music and
classical Carnatic-inspired violin), as well as featuring new contributors. In addition to regulars Lucas Carscadden (“Tiny Victories”,
“Black in Summer”) and Michael Mikowicz (“Water Wishes”, “Images on Tape”) are two notable new collaborators: Shakthisree
Gopalan, an up-and-coming singer in the South Indian film industry (“Days & Nights & Weeks & Months”, “Painted with the Lights”),
and Elsie Muñiz, a Philadelphia-native R&B singer (“Waiting”). Documenting the dialogue between different musicians from diverse
musical backgrounds and cultures, In, Out, and About presents ASiH at their finest, pushing the boundaries of their craft in surprising
and refreshing directions.
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