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Planet Bones is the solo recording project of musician, DJ, writer, indie journalist, visual artist, and video artist Diya Anantharaman.

Anantharaman formerly released an EP as Diya, 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 the music director of and a radio DJ at KUCR 88.3, hosting Unearthly Machine on Thursdays from 7 to 9 pm PST(an exploratory show featuring a broad range of genres), having interviewed numerous musicians and bands, and having been selected as a finalist for the Best Music Director award by the International Student Broadcasting Championship.

Anantharaman’s prose and poetry have been published in indie lit publications including SeaGlass Lit and Fifth Wheel Press.