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An Interview with Anoushka Shankar | Sound Tracks Quick Hits | PBS
Anoushka Shankar on why it was important to share her story of sexual abuse.
1 Boat to Nowhere
2 Secret Heart
3 Jump In (Cross the Line) feat. M.I.A.
4 Dissolving Boundaries
5 Land of Gold feat. Alev Lenz
6 Last Chance
7 Remain the Sea feat. Vanessa Redgrave
8 Crossing the Rubicon
9 Say Your Prayers
10 Reunion
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Land of Gold, Anoushka Shankar's fourth album for Deutsche Grammophon, is her heartfelt response to the trauma and injustice experienced by refugees and victims of war. Offering an uplifting message of hope for dark times, its music was inspired by recent news images of people fleeing civil war, oppression, poverty and unbearable hardship. The album contemplates the common thread of humanity and its power to reconnect people divided by hatred and fear. "The seeds of Land of Gold originated in the context of the humanitarian plight of refugees," Anoushka recalls. "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."

Land of Gold is set for international release on April 1, 2016.  Anoushka Shankar will perform pieces from the album on tour throughout the year, including festival dates in the summer in Europe and concerts in North America, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, India and the United Arab Emirates (see U.S. tour dates below).

Anoushka Shankar is joined by Hang virtuoso and co-writer of many of the album's ten pieces Manu Delago, and by Sanjeev Shankar, a master of the haunting Indian reed instrument, the shehnai, who studied with Anoushka's father Ravi Shankar. Land of Gold also includes guest appearances by rapper and refugee advocate M.I.A., singer/songwriter Alev Lenz, jazz double-bassist Larry Grenadier, dancer Akram Khan, cellist Caroline Dale, and actress and political activist Vanessa Redgrave, who reads a viscerally expressive poem by Pavana Reddy on "Remain the Sea." All-girl children's choir Girls for Equality makes its debut on the album's closing song, "Reunion."

  • Anoushka Shankar celebrates little joys on second single from 'Chapter 1: Forever, For Now' / NewsBytes
    Posted At: September 20, 2023
    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; the first Indian musician to perform live or to serve as presenter at the Grammy Awards with nine nominations under her belt, and the first Indian woman to be nominated; one of the firs...

  • Anoushka Shankar's 'Chapter I: Forever, For Now' speaks with the love of a mother to her child / World Music Central
    Posted At: August 4, 2023
    World Music Central - Ian Bevington writes….Anoushka Shankar, the highly acclaimed musician renowned for her mastery of the sitar, firmly believes this instrument has untapped potential. Her new recording, Chapter I: Forever, For Now, is a testimony to that belief.When I hear the four compositions on her new release, I feel that I am on a precipice of a new style of music that reaches out to my spirit that,...

  • Anoushka Shankar to release new album featuring Nils Frahm and produced by Arooj Aftab / THE LINE of BEST FIT
    Posted At: June 30, 2023
    Globally acclaimed sitar player, producer, composer Anoushka Shankar has announced a new mini-album Chapter I: Forever, For Now.THE LINE of BEST FIT's Tyler Damara Kelly writes….The announcement of Chapter I: Forever, For Now and the release of the single, "Stolen Moments", marks Shankar’s first new music since 2022’s standalone single "In Her Name", which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the gang rape...

  • Anoushka Shankar announces India Tour / THE FREE PRESS JOURNAL
    Posted At: November 6, 2022
    The 7-time Grammy-nominated, genre-defying artiste will present the 'Anoushka Shankar Project' which has been performing live since 2007THE FREE PRESS JOURNAL writes….British-American sitar player, producer, film composer and activist Anoushka Shankar will be returning to India for a three-city tour this December. With a flair for making the sitar speak a number of musical languages, the sitar-playing extra...

  • Anoushka Shankar talks with The Hindu about de-exotifying the sitar
    Posted At: March 22, 2021

    The Hindu's Sweta Akundi writes......Anouska Shankar has never shied away from talking about abuse. Four years before the MeToo movement took hold globally, in 2013, the sitar exponent revealed that she had been sexually abused as a child. So in a way, her latest song, Sister Susannah has been years in the making. Written by poet Nikita Gill, and recited in spoken word by Anoushka over loops of t...

  • Anoushka Shankar - Love Letters nominated For 2021 GRAMMY as 'Best Global Music Album' / REPUBLICWORLD.COM
    Posted At: November 27, 2020

    Sitar Master and San Dieguito Academy alum Anoushka Shankar has been nominated for Best Global Music Album category during Grammy 2021 nominations. As a surprise to fans, the Recording Academy recently announced the nominations for the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards on 24 November 2020. The nominations were announced in a live stream on Tuesday. Beyoncé is leading the 2021. Shankar has also been nomina...

  • BBC releases rare Ravi Shankar footage to mark centenary
    Posted At: April 12, 2020

    This week would have seen the 100th birthday of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar, one of India's most celebrated artists who famously taught Beatle George Harrison to play the sitar. Planned celebrations, including concerts at the London South Bank Centre and Carnegie Hall in New York, were postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak. But to mark the occasion the Shankar family have shared material fro...

  • Anoushka Shankar looks back at how diverse experiences shaped her / moneycontrol
    Posted At: April 12, 2020

    Music icon Anoushka Shankar looks back at her incredible journey, her relationship with her parents, and how her diverse experiences shaped her as a person. She is one of global music's biggest names, and an icon for other reasons too. From spreading joy with her music, to successfully battling substance abuse and opening up about sexual abuse, hysterectomy and depression, Anoushka Shankar is an insp...

  • Karsh Kale is set for virtual concert & chat / The New Indian Express
    Posted At: April 1, 2020

    Gear up to enjoy an e-concert and interaction by the iconic musician Karsh Kale from the comfort of your home. One can register online for this show titled, Live from HQ featuring Karsh Kale. The Indo-American musician and record producer is known for his tracks for Gully Boy and one of the most iconic names in the alternative music. The 45-year-old musician posted on Instagram "I'll be live from home an...

  • The discreet charm of Karsh Kale / hindustan times
    Posted At: March 29, 2020

    To one generation, Karsh Kale needs no introduction- he is one of the pioneers who defined the Asian Underground musical scene of the early '90s. To another generation, he is the guy who scored the famous Train song for Gully Boy (2019). Point this out, and he laughs. Because Kale has always been fiercely protective of his independent artiste tag, and it is ironic that he is known to GenZ for a film song...

  • Anoushka Shankar feels musicians who compose for film and TV should own their intellectual property / India New England
    Posted At: March 8, 2020

    Grammy-nominated sitarist, composer and producer Anoushka Shankar feels film and television companies want musicians to sign their rights away. Asked what change does she want to see in the music industry, Anoushka told IANS: "It's uncomfortable to see more and more rights taken away from musicians. If musicians compose for film or TV for example, they should own their own intellectual property, but more...

  • Anoushka Shankar talks to Forbes India about music and the importance of remaining true
    Posted At: March 2, 2020

    When Anoushka Shankar performed her first solo sitar recital, she was 13 years old. It was a 10-minute performance on a stage that she shared with maestros Zakir Hussain, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Vijay Raghav Rao, in an auditorium packed with 2,500 people. The occasion was the 75th birthday of her father Pandit Ravi Shankar. That was 25 years ago. Shankar, now 38, is a six-time Grammy nominated artiste...

  • When Anoushka Shankar translates loss, separation and pain in 'Love Letters,' she is accompanied by Alev Lenz / The Indian Express
    Posted At: February 18, 2020

    It's a well-known predicament - the idea of ferrying someone to your mind space. When sitarist Anoushka Shankar takes us there as she translates loss, separation and pain in her personal life in Love Letters, she is accompanied by German-Turkish singer-songwriter Alev Lenz's voice. Through a string theory that Shankar builds with her sitar in Bright Eyes - a heaving piece from Love Letters - Lenz's bare ...

  • Anoushka Shankar is breaking free, literally / 1883
    Posted At: February 10, 2020

    Anoushka Shankar, who is a 6-time Grammy-nominated sitarist, producer and composer is breaking free, literally. After a treacherous period of her life between 2018 and 2019, where Anoushka uses her heartbreak, health issues and domestic upheaval as a catharsis for this haunting new EP. All the while signing to a new record label, Mercury KX where she is debuting her new sound in Love Letters. Experim...

  • Deeply evocative, Anoushka Shankar releases; 'Love Letters' EP / Yahoo India News
    Posted At: February 8, 2020

    Anoushka Shankar has grown accustomed to the "your famous dad" line of questioning, and will probably hear a lot of it later in the year when she celebrates her father's 100th birth anniversary. But for the moment she is basking in the success of her new Extended Play Love Letters where she has done a very creditable job of convincing you that she's already her own woman, what with the poise and ...

  • Anoushka Shankar is set for Vancouver's Chan Centre / Burnaby now
    Posted At: March 26, 2019

    Anoushka Shankar will be onstage at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on April 27. Shankar, whose father was the late Ravi Shankar, has earned acclaim around the world for her skills as a sitar player and composer. She'll perform songs from her brand-new compilation album Reflections, which draws on classical ragas and contemporary cross-cultural pieces that showcase the versatility of the sit...

  • Anoushka Shankar set for an evening of classical crossover at Duke Performances / The News&Observer
    Posted At: March 13, 2019

    It's not surprising that Anoushka Shankar's music is so diverse. The sitar virtuoso is the daughter of the late legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar and combines Indian classical traditional with progressive world music. Shankar, 37, was born in London, where she split time between England and Delhi, India. She relocated to San Diego as a teenager. "It's been a fascinating life," Shankar says while callin...

  • Anoushka Shankar tells BBC about her father's 1971 Concert for Bangladesh recording
    Posted At: August 27, 2018

    British Indian sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar is a singular figure in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes. Her dynamic and spiritual musicality has garnered several prestigious accolades, including six Grammy® Award nominations, recognition as the youngest – and first female – recipient of a British House of Commons Shield, credit as an Asian Hero...

  • Anoushka Shankar on USA TODAY - My First Gig
    Posted At: July 13, 2018

    Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar is a singular figure in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes. Her dynamic and spiritual musicality has garnered several prestigious accolades, including six Grammy® Award nominations, recognition as the youngest – and first female – recipient of a British House of Commons Shield, credit as an Asian Hero by TIME Magazine, and a ...

  • Philip Glass and Pacific Symphony present collaboration with Ravi Shankar - Passages at Carnegie Hall / Brooklyn Vegan
    Posted At: April 15, 2018

    As you may know, Philip Glass has been celebrating his 80th birthday year by holding the ‘Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair' position for Carnegie Hall‘s 2017-2018 season, curating concerts at the historic NYC venue. On Saturday, April 21, he'll present what appears to be the final concert in the series. Pacific Symphony will be performing "Meetings Along the Edge" from Philip Glass' ...

  • Anoushka Shankar pays tribute to father, Ravi Shankar on his 98th birth anniversary / INDIATV
    Posted At: April 10, 2018

    Anoushka Shankar has paid tributes to her father, the legendary sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar on his 98th birth anniversary. The 36-year-old sitarist shared one of her favourite photographs of her father on Instagram, recalling how she was alike him in the way she smiled.  The Grammy-nominated music composer said; "The best thing I can do to celebrate him is to immerse myself in as much music as ...

  • Anoushka Shankar set for Melbourne's Hamer Hall / Indian Link
    Posted At: March 13, 2018

    It's been eight long years of waiting to witness Anoushka Shankar perform live once more on Australian shores. She was last here on tour in 2010, along with her father, sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. A lot has changed in these eight years – for example, Australia has changed way too many Prime Ministers – but Anoushka's creative ingenuity in experimenting with the many ways in which India...

  • Anoushka Shankar returns to Womadelaide, weaving beautiful textures in sound / Stuff.co.nz
    Posted At: March 11, 2018

    SINCE her last appearance here at Womadelaide eight years ago with her father Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar has been experimenting with crossover collaborations that incorporate Western popular music trends. Her set here at the at Foundation Stage drew material from her Land of Gold album, inspired by the refugee crisis. With percussion, bass, synthesiser, sampled sounds, and the raucous, marvellously e...

  • Anoushka Shankar chats about the joy of discovery at WOMADelaide / The Adelaide Review
    Posted At: February 16, 2018

    Anoushka Shankar chats about taking the sitar into new musical territory, collaborating with M.I.A. and the joy of discovery at festivals like WOMADelaide. "At base level I think it is a beautiful instrument and I think it has got an extremely emotional and evocative sound," she says of the sitar's enduring appeal. "It also has references in people's psyche of that time in popular culture - when ...

  • Anoushka Shankar's 'Voice of the Moon' makes Daily Times '10 tracks to hear before you die'
    Posted At: December 3, 2017

    It is through music that we express ourselves and it is through music that we find peace in our busy lives. Most of us listen to music on our way to our universities or workplaces and we also listen to music while working or studying. Music is an important part of our lives and it is impossible to imagine a world without music because of its presence in everything around us. From the sounds of nature to ...

  • Anoushka Shankar 'Jazz a Juan' set was a festival highlight / Jazzwise
    Posted At: August 5, 2017

    After the terrible events on the Promenade des Anglais on the 14 July last year this year's Nice and Jazz à Juan jazz festivals were bound to be tinged with more than a little sadness. As a mark of respect Jazz à Juan started its festival one day late on the 15 July. Featuring a mix of jazz and popular music the festival attracted a large audience (despite the drop in tourism on the Fre...

  • Set for Edinburgh Festival, Anoushka Shankar and Joshua Bell Q&A with - The List
    Posted At: July 6, 2017

    Old pals Anoushka Shankar and Joshua Bell first performed together in 2007. This August, they both land in Edinburgh for some very special performances at the Festival. Bell has a very special three-concert residency and in it he reveals three distinctive sides to his musical personality. As a virtuoso soloist, he gives a recital in The Queen's Hall on 21 August with piano partner Dénes V&aac...

  • Anoushka Shankar plays NYC's Town Hall / News India Times review
    Posted At: April 11, 2017

    Music composer and sitar player Anoushka Shankar serenaded music lovers with Indian classical compositions at The Town Hall in NYC on April 5. Shankar, the daughter of sitar master Pandit Ravi Shankar and one of his most dedicated students, performed music from her 2015 CD release "Home", a pure Indian classical album which showcases the meditative and virtuosic qualities of the Indian rang. Dressed in a...

  • Anoushka Shankar - Land of Gold makes Global Village Top 40 for July
    Posted At: August 5, 2016

    Land of Gold, Anoushka Shankar's fourth album for Deutsche Grammophon, is her heartfelt response to the trauma and injustice experienced by refugees and victims of war. Offering an uplifting message of hope for dark times, its music was inspired by recent news images of people fleeing civil war, oppression, poverty and unbearable hardship. The album contemplates the common thread of humanity and...

  • Anoushka Shankar - Land of Gold featured on 'Hearts of Space: BHAKTI'
    Posted At: July 22, 2016

    Land of Gold, Anoushka Shankar's fourth album for Deutsche Grammophon, is her heartfelt response to the trauma and injustice experienced by refugees and victims of war. Offering an uplifting message of hope for dark times, its music was inspired by recent news images of people fleeing civil war, oppression, poverty and unbearable hardship. The album contemplates the common thread of humanity and its ...

  • ANOUSHKA SHANKAR's 'Say Your Prayers' - Featured on HEARTS OF SPACE - ETHNOTRONIC 2
    Posted At: June 19, 2016

    ANOUSHKA SHANKAR's  "Say Your Prayers" < 54:15->58:59 > from LAND OF GOLD is Featured on HEARTS OF SPACE Distribution Date: June 17, 2016  =--------------------------------------------------------------------= PRODUCED BY : STEVE DAVIS and STEPHEN HILL        At the time of this feed, Hearts of Space =----------------------------------------------...

  • Anoushka Shankar - Land of Gold makes Echoes: April Top 25
    Posted At: April 29, 2016

    Escape into a modern soundscape of evocative, ground-breaking music that crosses cultures, traditions and musical boundaries. Host John Dilberto guides you through the world of contemporary music, sharing his thoughts and featuring artists and events that are shaping contemporary music.  She's the daughter of Ravi Shankar, the sister of Norah Jones and the leading sitarist in the ...

  • ((( Echoes ))) Concert presents Anoushka Shankar
    Posted At: April 25, 2016

    ((( PRI: Echoes ))) Concert presents Anoushka Shankar - TODAY!! Monday April 25th She's the daughter of Ravi Shankar, the sister of Norah Jones and the leading sitarist in the world. Anoushka Shankar comes in with her ensemble of percussion and hang drum, shenai and bass to perform music from  her latest album of hybrid Indian sounds, Land of Gold. The album is based around Anoushka'...

  • Anoushka Shankar speaks to KCRW on writing music about the refugee crisis
    Posted At: April 15, 2016

    The daughter of sitarist guru Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar is best known for her powerful musical lineage. But, while she learned quite a bit from her father in the hundreds of concerts they've played together, she's become a master in her own right. Her new release and fourth for Deutsche Grammophon, is her heartfelt response to the trauma and injustice experienced by refugees and victims of war. Offe...

  • PRI: The World features 'Jump In (Cross the Line) from Anoushka Shankar's - Land of Gold
    Posted At: March 29, 2016

    Land of Gold, Anoushka Shankar's fourth album for Deutsche Grammophon, is her heartfelt response to the trauma and injustice experienced by refugees and victims of war. Offering an uplifting message of hope for dark times, its music was inspired by recent news images of people fleeing civil war, oppression, poverty and unbearable hardship. The album contemplates the common thread of humanity and its ...

  • Maria Schneider and Anoushka Shankar presenting at GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony
    Posted At: February 3, 2016

    The GRAMMY AWARDS PREMIERE CEREMONY will take place at MICROSOFT THEATER across the street from STAPLES CENTER on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15th, from 12:30-3:30p (PT) and will be streamed live internationally at GRAMMY.com/live and CBS.com. The ceremony will be hosted by comedian and current GRAMMY nominee JAY MOHR. Presenting the first GRAMMY AWARDS of the day in approximately 70 categories will be current nomi...
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