Built around a three-minute recording of a Delhi rickshaw stand during pre-monsoon rain. Rao wrote the melody to match the honking rhythm.
Song story
Rickshaw Queue
Field recording from Delhi.
At a glance
- Release date
- February 14, 2025
- Album
- Monsoon Radio
- Genre
- Ambient
- Language
- English, Hindi
- Duration
- 3:06
- Artist
- Asha Rao
The story
About this song
Interpretation
What the song is about
On shared waiting and temporary strangers.
Close listen
Craft and analysis
The percussion is entirely made from rickshaw bell and engine sounds, pitch-shifted.
Licensed lyrics
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Horns in the rain
We waited under the same awning
The meter never started
Pre-monsoon Delhi on my skin
[Chorus]
Shared waiting, temporary strangers
Three minutes of honking rhythm
I wrote the melody to match
The engine sounds, the system
[Verse 2]
The bell and the engine
Pitch-shifted into percussion
A field recording turned to song
A Delhi confession
[Chorus]
Shared waiting, temporary strangers
Three minutes of honking rhythm
I wrote the melody to match
The engine sounds, the system
[Bridge]
Under the same awning
The rain falls on us all
The meter never started
And we never made the call
[Chorus]
Shared waiting, temporary strangers
Three minutes of honking rhythm
I wrote the melody to match
The engine sounds, the system
[Outro]
Horns in the rain
The meter never started
Credits
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