Chapter I: Forever, For Now, by Anoushka Shankar

Chapter I: Forever, For Now

by Anoushka Shankar

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fhigher There is something with these songs that seem to breathe a certain class... and a form of spontaneous wandering/pondering with it at the same time. Or am I just using too many words here..? (Probably yes, btw. :)

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Limited vinyl edition of Anoushka Shankar's first of three mini-albums she will be writing and releasing as an evolving story between tours. Produced at Berlin's LEITER studio by praised Grammy-decorated singer and composer Arooj Aftab, and featuring guest appearances by Nils Frahm (piano, glass harmonica, harmonium, slit drum), Gal Maestro (bass) and Magda Giannikou (accordion).

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1.	Daydreaming (feat. Nils Frahm) 03:41 video	info	buy track
2.	Stolen Moments 06:25	info	buy track
3.	What Will We Remember? 09:04	info	buy track
4.	Sleeping Flowers (Awaken Every Spring) 03:57	info	buy track

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Anoushka Shankar, the acclaimed sitar player, producer and composer, shares a new mini-album: 'Chapter I: Forever, For Now' is out via LEITER on limited edition vinyl and on all digital platforms.

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. “I remember my mother and grandmother singing it to me as a child,” Shankar reminisces, “and one day last summer, while I was in the garden with my two sons and my sitar, I was strumming when one of my sons got tired and lay down in my lap. As I started finding this melody from my childhood, he fell asleep, and I remember trying to savour the beauty of the moment. This song is a snapshot of afternoon sun through leaves, roses in bloom, a child dozing on his mother's lap, the preciousness of a single moment fully lived and witnessed. This whole chapter, in fact, is about that feeling, being completely in the fullness and transience of a single moment, coming to forever – for now.”

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released October 6, 2023

All music written by Anoushka Shankar, Stolen Moments written by Anoushka Shankar and Arooj Aftab.
All tracks produced by Arooj Aftab, mixed by Matt Robertson and mastered by Heba Kadry.
Executive Producer: Saloni Thakkar.

Recorded at LEITER Studio with Antonio Pulli.

All tracks published by Chester Music. Nils Frahm published by Manners McDade Music Publishing Ltd.

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To read a list of Anoushka Shankar’s accomplishments is to read many life stories in one: masterful sitarist; film composer; impassioned activist; the youngest and first female recipient of a British House of Commons Shield and the first Indian musician to perform live or to serve as presenter at the Grammy Awards with nine nominations. ... more

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