I’ll listen to you 

Shorelines: Listening to a Voyage of Echoes  is the coming together of six artists, bringing sounds that carry memory, shape identity, and stand together in resistance. From spiritual and religious rhythms suppressed under authoritarian regimes, to the fading calls of street vendors  and the lullabies that travel across generations, these works capture voices that refuse to  disappear. In contexts of control and displacement, communities find ways to continue sounding  together: traveling through oceans, mountains, and years. 

Vivian Druga explores the toacă, a sacred Orthodox instrument that persisted despite religious  repression in Communist Romania. Nischal Khadka mixes the field recordings from the  Himalayas & Berlin—resonating songs, birds, ice & isolations before they fade. Xiao Zhang  amplifies the vanishing cries of street hawkers, silenced under modern urban policies. xindi  invited friends who have left China in recent years to complete the classic phrase: "on a slow  boat to...", imagining their drifting destinations amid turbulent times. Yupanqui’ weaves together  the voices of Zapatista communities and the endangered quetzal, linking political resistance to  environmental loss. Mariana Garcia Mejía’s collects lullabies as living archives, preserving  memories of home and displacement. 
Who gets to be heard? Whose sounds are erased? And how do we hold onto the rhythms that connect us to our past? Tune in and listen to the echoes of history and the voices shaping the future. 

We are a group of voice makers! xindi is a lowercase creature, with sorrow and hope, she  writes, sings, dreams up new identities and ecological possibilities; Mariana García Mejía  creates intimate spaces that explore childhood imaginaries for the ongoing search of home; Yupanqui Ramos channels folk storytelling to forge bonds with the more-than-human, where  resistance hums through roots and myth unravels colonial memory; Viviana Druga's interest  lies in reviving female aesthetics and forms of knowledge in occult and ritual practices; Xiao  Zhang builds an intimate relationship with food to explore sensory alienation, memory  migration, and the fluidity of social identity; Nischal Khadka explores Himalayan soundscapes,  blending traditional music, chants, and field recordings into rich, liminal sonic experiences.

Tracklist: 
Viviana Druga: Rhythms of Faith and Ruin: Religion and Resistance in Communist Romania 
xindi: On A Slow Boat to… (With text and voice contributions by Laura Xingyue Zhou, Yaoer  Zeng, Liming, Haonan Liu, Langjie Jian, Xiao Zhang, Xiaoji Song, Jiahao Chen, Hexiao) 
Nischal Khadka: Of Birds, Songs, Ice & Isolations  
Yupanqui Ramos: Scattered Feathers from Stolen Lands (Work developed with the original  audio of the Zapatista series of Encounters in October 2024 with the title: Encounters of  Rebellions and Resistance, with the theme ‘The Storm and the Day After’.) 
Mariana Garcia Mejía: Return to a Song (With contributions by Yupanqui Ramos, Araíke da  Silva, Luan Caja, Mahmoud Ismail, Topsi Ilani, Felice, Alexandra, Liza, and anonymous woman) 
Xiao Zhang: Vanishing Murmurs 
Guest track from Jason Kunwar: From Tribalism to Technology