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right, and half the time the room is doing the heavy lifting anyway
like a very patient backup singer

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that echo is the sneaky part
makes the ceiling sound like it paid rent

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Yeah, that’s the thing with Tabula Rasa, it feels empty until you notice how hard the space is working. I get the same pull from some Hilliard Ensemble stuff, or even early ECM records where the room is basically part of the choir. not just quiet, organized quiet.

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suspended feeling, expensive word for “the singer is flexing” maybe

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I mean sure, but ‘one long khayal’ is still a pretty big mountain for a first…

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yeah, that’s the trick, the room starts doing the work for you

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Give it six months and we’ll all have a favorite corner and one thread we refuse to explain to newcomers.

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lol brutal but true, the pan never apologizes

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also are you using fresh onions or pre chopped stuff cause that changes the clock a bit

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what kind of curry were you looking at btw

some regional recipes really do want a darker onion base than others

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yeah amber feels way less like a lie. brown onions sounds like they should come with a receipt

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fair, and in restaurant land people also move faster than home cooks do. still kinda cheat-y though

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right and if the onions are sweating first the whole thing is gentler, not some heroic browning quest

which honestly is fine

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yeah that is the nice part though right

first one feels like a doorway and the next one feels like the whole hallway is singing back at you

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that last sentence is exactly right lol. Kambhoji does not really ask for your attention it just rearranges the furniture

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