"phantom gray" - 2023, photography
Planet Bones is the solo recording project of musician, DJ, writer, visual artist, and video artist Diya Anantharaman.
 
Anantharaman formerly released Moonflower EP as Diya in 2018, but then later reemerged under a new solo project—Planet Bones. Anantharaman’s debut album as Planet Bones, Parasitism, was released in February of 2020.
 
Anantharaman’s 2023 release, Drones of the Desert, is synesthesia-powered and musically influenced by post-rock, electronic, Carnatic, Hindustani, choral, contemporary classical, shoegaze, and folk music—taking eclectic fragments from each genre and melding them into drone-rich sonic portraits, peppered with samples and anchored by ambience.
 
Anantharaman is also a music director and radio DJ at KUCR 88.3, hosting Unearthly Machine every Monday from 7 to 8 pm  (Pacific)~~an exploratory show featuring a broad range of genres.