Nirosta Steel on Buddhist Pop and the Making of ‘MY SKYSCRAPER’

Podcast: Tricycle Talks · Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Opublikowano: 2026-09-30

Steven Hall, aka Nirosta Steel, has been making ambitious experimental music for more than forty years, though most of it has gone unreleased. This summer, the Indiana label ULYSSA dug through decades of Hall’s archives to put together his first album in years, MY SKYSCRAPER, which quickly rose to critical acclaim. Drawing from his longtime collaboration with Arthur Russell and building on their notion of “Buddhist pop,” the album presents four decades of Hall’s work, spanning folk, disco, and experimental synth-pop. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Hall to ta...