Rafiq Bhatia

Breaking English Rafiq Bhatia

Breaking English, the Anti- debut of New York guitarist and producer Rafiq Bhatia, shatters preconceptions about how much can be said without a word--and, for that matter, who can say it. In fact, these thirty-two breathless minutes of instrumental grandeur represent the auspicious arrival of an audacious new voice, one of music's great new performer-producers.

In 2012, Bhatia issued two recordings that earned immediate acclaim, with The New York Times dubbing his music "intrepid, arresting, and stylish." Two years later, he joined Son Lux, a studio-centered project in which producer Ryan Lott used software to warp found sounds into dazzling electronic experiments. Son Lux afforded Bhatia the chance to record with the likes of Lorde and Sufjan Stevens, but, more important, it gave him the support to rethink his entire approach to creating music--the process that ultimately yielded Breaking English.