Kaigara
kaī-GÄR-ə | 貝殻
Amy Amatya is a violinist, string arranger, and media composer based in Los Angeles.
and climate creative whose work centers planetary loss, mixed heritage, and warped time.
Drawing from her experiences as a Nepali-Japanese-American daughter making home in a warming world, she writes dark folk music that reveres the fearsome yet oddly-freeing feeling of ambiguous endings, with lines such as:
building a home in the interface
salmon run
euryhaline
Homing is the ability of an animal to navigate towards an original location through unfamiliar areas. This location may be either a home territory or a breeding location.
both a home for herself as a child of diaspora,
not homing, but nesting
buddhism and hinduism
on nesting
aims to suspend listeners in
Drawing from her Nepali and Japanese heritage,
around the belief that every person is an interface between
living between
interface between man and his surroundings,
birds, rivers, interfaces
Amy’s background in classical music and climate science are front-and-center in her folk project, Kaigara. Self-identifying as “dark folk,” Kaigara is a receptacle for
twin
Grand Ole Opry, Peacock (formerly Microsoft/Nokia) Theater, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Lindsey Stirling
attuned to earth
Wisdom of a childt
Amy graduated from Princeton University with a degree in earth science, focusing on climate and oceans.
Amy enjoys reading poetry and nonfiction, biking along bodies of water,