Anoushka Shankar – Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before Dawn (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:49 minutes | 406 MB | Genre: World
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Anoushka Shankar, the acclaimed sitar player, producer and composer, shares the second instalment of the trilogy of mini-albums she began with ‘Chapter I: Forever, For Now’ in October 2023. ‘Chapter II: How Dark it Is Before Dawn’ is out on limited edition vinyl and via all digital platforms via LEITER. The series follows her live album ‘Between Us…’, a collaboration with Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest nominated for 2023’s Best Global Music Album Grammy.
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Anoushka Shankar – Chapter I: Forever, For Now (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:08 minutes | 489 MB | Genre: World
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Anoushka Shankar, the acclaimed sitar player, producer and composer, shares a new mini-album: Chapter I: Forever, For Now.
Recorded at Berlin’s celebrated Funkhaus complex, the four new tracks make up the first chapter in a trilogy of mini-albums Shankar will be writing and releasing as an evolving story between tours. Featuring guest appearances by Nils Frahm (piano, glass harmonica, harmonium, slit drum), Gal Maestro (bass) and Magda Giannikou (accordion), ‘Forever, For Now’ was produced by praised Grammy-decorated singer and composer Arooj Aftab, with whom Shankar had previously collaborated on ‘Udhero Na’, from the deluxe edition of Aftab’s Vulture Prince album.
Forever, For Now is Shankars first release since December 2022’s standalone single, ‘In Her Name’, which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the 2012 gang rape in Delhi of Jyoti Singh Pandey, and the mini-album also follows Between Us…, her live album for LEITER earlier the same year, recorded with Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest and nominated for a Grammy for Best Global Album in 2023.
Forever, For Now’s dominant mood is set by the bewitching stillness of the opening ‘Daydreaming (featuring Nils Frahm)’, a fresh take on a traditional Karnatik lullaby.
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Anoushka Shankar, Metropole Orkest, Jules Buckley – Between Us… (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:56 minutes | 896 MB | Genre: World
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British-Indian-American sitar player, producer, film composer and activist Anoushka Shankar shares her first live album since 2001’s Live At Carnegie Hall: Between Us… is her debut with German label LEITER and draws upon material from four solo albums, but also features one previously unreleased track. The record sees Anoushka Shankar maintain a long tradition of collaboration which began as a 13-year-old girl, when she started performing sitar alongside her father and teacher Ravi Shankar. Between Us… features Shankar’s regular collaborator – and master of the Hang a.k.a. hand pan – Manu Delago alongside Holland’s Metropole Orkest, directed by renowned conductor and arranger Jules Buckley. The album was recorded in 2018 during a short run of shows in the Netherlands.
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Anoushka Shankar – Love Letters P.S. (Deluxe) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:19 minutes | 480 MB | Genre: Indie Rock
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Sitarist, composer and producer Anoushka Shankar releases her new deluxe album, Love Letters P.S., which follows her original Love Letters EP and includes four new tracks including two remixes from composer-producers Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Sandunes and two brand new songs!
Anoushka is joined by singer, songwriter and pianist Norah Jones, singer, co-producer and co-writer Alev Lenz, singer and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson and mastering engineer Heba Kadry (Björk, Slowdive) alongside Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Sandunes for this stunning offering.
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Anoushka Shankar – Land Of Gold (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:54 minutes | 629 MB | Genre: World
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Land of Gold is Anoushka Shankars fervent response to the humanitarian trauma of displaced people fleeing conflict and poverty.
The virtuoso sitar player explores an expressive range, conveying an evocative journey infused with a message of enduring hope. With exquisite arrangements blending genres and musical collaborations, Land of Gold is a narrative communicated with conviction and poetic beauty.
Land of Gold originated in the context of the humanitarian plight of refugees. It coincided with the time when I had recently given birth to my second child. I was deeply troubled by the intense contrast between my ability to provide for my baby, and others who desperately wanted to provide the same security for their children but were unable to do so. Anoushka Shankar.
The narrative thread carried throughout the album evokes themes of disconnection, vulnerability and the underlying hope that persists in our darkest experiences. My instrument is the terrain in which I explore the gamut of emotional expression evoking shades of aggression, anger and tenderness, while incorporating elements of classical minimalism, jazz, electronica and Indian classical styles. Anoushka Shankar
Produced by Anoushka and her husband Joe Wright, whose film-making sensibilities helped to shape and add depth to the mood and energy of the album.
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Anoushka Shankar – Home (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:14 minutes | 557 MB | Genre: World
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Four-time Grammy nominee Anoushka Shankar is one of today´s most distinguished classical cross-genre sitar performers and composers. After Traveller and Traces of You, this pure Indian classical album is Anoushka´s third release on Deutsche Grammophon, recorded right at her home studio in London. Inspired by her classical upbringing and teaching by her legendary father, Ravi Shankar, this album offers both meditative and virtuoso Indian classical raga for solo sitar with ensemble.
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