Aïsha Devi’s compositions carry profound depth and emotion, her work imbued with a rich palette built not only of sound, but emotion, colour, ritual, location, and identity. Her new album Death Is Home on Houndstooth pulses with these key elements, drawing from her early life of abuse and her youth in Nepal as well as memories of her dead father B.K. Gurung, a Nepali drummer whom she had never known. Guiding the listener through the aether of her father’s passage through the region, Devi dredges a ghostly wake both for the man she never knew, a Nepal no tourists know, and the manufactured fear of death that keeps us from true ascension.

A constantly-working and touring performer, the Danse Noire founder has frequently collaborated with Chinese artist Tianzhuo Chen, performed with the collective Asian Dope Boys at The Barbican and The Broad Museum, composed and performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and appeared at hundreds of festivals worldwide. An unmissable oracular experience.

• Immortelle, by Aisha Devi

• Immortelle, by Aisha Devi