Batt Koch

Songs and background score for the Kashmiri-language feature film exploring memory, identity and homeland through a deeply emotional musical narrative.

The score's material is the same material as the film's: a lane that is still there and a life that is not. Cinematic soundscapes rooted in Kashmiri cultural expression — original songs, background score and thematic instrumentation, composed and arranged across the production.

It is the work in which the two halves of this practice — the archivist of Kashmiri folk notation and the studio composer — meet in one place.