About the album

It is a double EP by Hyderabad-based experimental electronic act Somnium Monkey.

Somnium Monkey’s debut split cassette on ONNO brings together two deeply connected EPs: Vettam വെ ട്ടം and Butterfly Effect. Vettam erupts through chaotic, distorted rhythms and abrasive textures, charged with grit and psychedelic density. The Malayalam word “Vettam,” meaning “light,” becomes a metaphor for seeking clarity within dissonance.

In contrast, Butterfly Effect unfolds as a sci-fi-tinged meditation on time and memory. Layered, hypnotic, and dreamlike, it drifts through imagined timelines like the score to an unwritten novel.

Together, Vettam and Butterfly Effect trace a cycle of tension and release — a haunting elegy shaped by fragility and emotional dislocation, set against the collapse of ecology and time.

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