A “ requiem for a dead future,” Fatima was released in January 2023. The loss of an integral community member coupled with the decay in his hometown informed his second album, which he named Fatima.
During Qaisar’s time as a University student in Delhi, he lost his aunt, Fatima. After this, he began to see Ladakh transform into a tourist town. These floods were destructive to the point where they were considered extreme geologic events in the Himalayan region. Consistent with this, he was sent to a boarding school in Delhi. He explains that there was a trend where parents sent their kids abroad to study.
He did not grow up seeing many educational institutions. Qaisar did not see a whole lot of technology during his early childhood. The region’s geography, at the helm of borders with Pakistan and China and has yielded a historical legacy of land disputes and encroachments. Qaiser was born to Muslim parents, the first educated generation in Leh, the largest city of India’s union territory, Ladakh. On March 11, Qaisar presented his work in Lalitpur with noise musicians from Nepal and the United States. The decay of Ladakh caused by late capitalism, coupled with the trials of intergenerational trauma constitute his defiant sonic performance. His music is a manifestation of personal and political catastrophe. Born in a lower-middle-class house in Ladakh, Qaisar, 28, has related to this struggle, relying on instruments made from found objects as a self-taught noise musician. He explained that this was due to their lack of means to buy instruments. Qaisar talked about how the Berlin-based band Einstürzende Neubauten began making instruments by hand in the 1980s using stolen construction materials. This deconstruction soon veered into a conversation about the history of noise music. “They pick up the sound from the inside.” “You get Piezo mics, best for metal surfaces,” he said as he knocked on the cafe’s metal balustrade with his ring, briefly clanging through the metal. Sitting on the balcony of a cafe in Thamel, Ruhail Qaisar deconstructed the abstruseness of handmade instruments.
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