Tetra Denim
[related: Egyptian Helicopter (song)][disambiguation: Egyptian Helicopter (hieroglyph)
Short-lived No Wave and jazz-adjacent New York City-based music trio (with special guests) active in the late 1980's. The group's work was stationed at the intersection of jazz fusion, synth pop, and carnatic music. Tetra Denim briefly emerged from the ashes of Digital Riptide's demise - a slight three song EP entitled Spaceships of Ezekiel stands as the group's only official documentation. A smattering of video material was, at some point in the mid-1990's, posted on Phantom Archives using ripped footage from various commercial sources, including three minutes of veritable helicopter fetishism entitled Egyptian Helicopter,[1]. It remains unclear if such materials were generated by a digital archivist or the group itself. Spaceships of Ezekiel's final track, the carnatically-inspired I am Become Death, features an uncredited South Indian singer responding to Robert Oppenheimer's (in)famous quote referencing Hinduism's highest scripture, the Bahgavad Gita, when discussing the aftermath of the Manhattan Project.