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HALF WAIF – ” Dream Cycle “

Posted: October 10, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Dream Cycle is a 9+ minute study on the surreal and slippery quality of dreams, written in 2014. The lyrics came from a dream journal I kept in a note on my phone at the time, detailing the most bizarre and vivid dreams I had. When it came time to select demos for what would become the full-length album Probable Depths, two of these sketches – ‘Nest’ and ‘Spaceship’ – made the cut. The rest still exist solely in this haze of ideas, a smattering of skewed images and curious sounds hovering in the space just beyond the dream. I’m excited to share ‘Dream Cycle’ now as a relic of my past, a marker of time, and a unique tributary for some of the songs on Probable Depths.” – Nandi Rose Plunkett

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HALF WAIF – ” form​/​a “

Posted: October 6, 2017 in MUSIC
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Half Waif brims over with sounds: underwater echoes of Celtic melodies; mossy, blinking electronic soundscapes; the ultra- sad chord changes of 19th-century art music; and eternal, unending bhajans. A finely crafted glass menagerie of songs. Nandi Rose Plunkett writes, records and performs under the name Half Waif. Her music is deeply personal and engaging, reflecting her lifelong endeavor to reconcile a sense of place. Rasied in the bucolic cultural hub of Williamstown, Massachusetts, Nandi was the daughter of an Indian refugee mother and an American father of Irish/Swiss descent. She was one of Williamstown’s only non-white residents. As a kid, she listened to a wide mix of music that included everything from Joni Mitchell and Tori Amos, to Celtic songstress Loreena McKennitt and traditional Indian bhajans. In college, she studied classical singing and became enamored with the works of Olivier Messiaen and Claude Debussy. Her output as Half Waif reflects these varying influences, resulting in a richly layered collage of blinking electronic soundscapes, echoes of Celtic melodies and the sad chord changes of 19th-century art music.

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form/a is released as a limited-edition 12”. Art for the cover was shot by Adan Carlo and hand-stitched by Chilean artist, María Aparicio Puentes. The first 50 orders will receive a limited edition poster.

HALF WAIF – ” Audiotree Live Session “

Posted: April 16, 2017 in MUSIC
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Half Waif is the 80’s influenced indie electronic project of Nandi Rose Plunkett. She refers to the material as a “search for a sense of place” and that search is reflected in her confessional lyrical content. Rose Plunkett uses echoing synth modifiers and pelagic keyboard tones to amplify the emotion revealed by her arresting delivery of these intrapersonal tunes. “Half Waif brims over with sounds: underwater echoes of Celtic melodies; mossy, blinking electronic soundscapes; the ultra- sad chord changes of 19th-century art music; and eternal, unending bhajans. A finely crafted glass menagerie of song…”

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Band Members
Nandi Rose Plunkett – Vocals, Nord Electro 5D Keyboard and Korg Minilogue Synth
Adan Carlo – Bass and Vocals
Zack Levine – Drums, Roland SPD-SX and Vocals

HALF WAIF – ” Severed Logic “

Posted: February 21, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Half Waif’s New EP Is A Mesmerizing Collection Of Avant-Pop

Nandi Rose Plunkett writes, records and performs under the name Half Waif. Her music is deeply personal and engaging, reflecting her lifelong endeavor to reconcile a sense of place. Raised against the bucolic backdrop of Williamstown, Massachusetts, Nandi was the daughter of an Indian refugee mother and an American father of Irish/Swiss descent.

“My mood is a pendulum/ I don’t think you could handle it,” sings Nandi Rose Plunkett, the synth songwriter known as Half Waif, early on “Severed Logic,” her new EP’s opening number. After, a second-hand-like ticking gives way to a swell of choppy, hollow-sounding beats. It’s a gorgeous moment, the first of many on the six-song form/a, which drops this week on Cascine Records and is debuting below in full.
Plunkett, who also plays with the hyper-literary alt-country band Pinegrove, has a gifted ear for loops that sound huge but still feel like they were cut by hand, and each of these tracks unfurls like a slow-motion power ballad. The textures are immersive, and the lyrics are self-reflective. “And you have been patient through every storm/ Forgive me my baby but what’s one more?” she sings on “Cerulean,” her doubled-up vocals glowing like a lit match in a dark room.
“I set out to record form/a on my own, wanting this EP to be a record of what my moods sound like, if I could pull them out of my insides and amplify them,” said Plunkett. “This collection of songs is a look into how those moods affect my relationships, how they take me on journeys through my past, how they transport me into meditations on life and death.”

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