*American pop music used to be full of white middle-class Anglo kids who had taken some LSD and gotten all "weird." Nowadays we've got pop music by extremely dissociative, utterly globalized networked kids who enjoy backpacking in the Hindu Kush while contemplating Italian Futurism. With ProTools. And they can cook.
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"Ashvin and Yousuf are both avid cooks as well, the old KSA song "Botch It Up Boccioni" being a culinary reference to the Italian Futurist painter Umberto Boccioni. The song is an accompaniment to a dessert tray designed by KSA boasting such creations as Iceleen Maru, Bisleri Halva, and Mumphali Fataka.
"There were parallels between the Futurists and KSA Art Movement, a point that Ash drives further when he captured a still from an Enrico Prampolini set design for the 1920's futurist film Thais and cut it up and further treated it with KSA stlylings for the cover of the KSA album "Lakulysha Moteek."
B"oth Yousuf and Ashvin spent much time in mountains, deserts and villages of the Hindukush and Karakorums, Thar and Rajasthan. Yousuf bent time and space wandering the hills of the North West frontier in search of himself and having met with various tribes and mystics along the way from the plains of Deosai to lakes of Naltar, ending search in the plateau of Potohar. Gathering lights and sounds to race towards an inner awakening...."
