Originally an outlet for his house music proclivities, Praveen Sharma's Braille alias has grown far beyond its dance floor bombing beginnings. Never one to settle on a single genre, let alone instrument, Sharma's original releases as Braille first arose in 2011 on European house monoliths Hotflush and Rush Hour respectively, but that doesn't mean that Sharma is set on only releasing four-on-the-floor material. Having released music since 2005 across a wide swath of genres, including widely acclaimed work with Travis Stewart aka Machinedrum as Sepalcure, Braille has pared down his efforts in recent years and begun to coalesce his efforts around a pathos-focused, deeply affecting sound that draws out the most personal, introspective aspects of each respective genre he's worked in.
Across several collaborations with the aforementioned Machinedrum, fellow Brooklyn resident Seafloor, and Heathered Pearls, Sharma is set to take 2015 by storm with a focus on manicured improvisation and a sound palette heavy on 808 kicks and field recordings from Sharma's deep library. Among his varied forthcoming releases, Sharma will rekindle the Braille alias for an EP and subsequent album on Los Angeles' Friends of Friends outpost, efforts pulsing with the sort of melancholic optimism that made the first two Braille EPs and the Sepalcure LP such tantalizing, critically adored entities. And it's with the same veiled optimism that Sharma approaches the 10th year of his professional recording career, a period replete with both experimentation and dance music efficacy in its purest form. 2015 will prove a tantalizing step for one of New York's most celebrated talents.
