SPACE ODYSSEY

Komorebi's latest project, 'The Fall', comprises an album, comic book and music videos, and tells the story of a runaway alien

- Bhanuj Kappal

Tarana Marwah has always understood that one of pop music’s biggest strengths is its embrace of joyful escapism. For her 2017 debut album Soliloquy, the avant-pop artist—who makes music as ‘Komorebi’—she conjured up an entire fantasy world called ‘Candyland’, a riot of bright anime colours and magical surrealism, within which she situated introspective little songs that explored inner turmoil and troubled relationships. She leans even further into quixotic world-building with her sprawling new conceptual project ‘The Fall’—spread across an album, a 30-page comic book and technically ambitious music videos—which tells the story of a runaway alien who crash lands on Planet Earth.