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ANOUSHKA SHANKAR CHAPTER I: FOREVER, FOR NOW 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 from October 6, 2023. 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 f.......
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Anoushka Shankar, uznana sitarzystka, producentka i kompozytorka, przedstawia nowy mini-album "Chapter I: Forever, For Now".

Cztery nowe utwory, nagrane w słynnym berlińskim kompleksie Funkhaus, stanowią pierwszy rozdział trylogii mini-albumów, które Shankar będzie tworzyć i wydawać między trasami koncertowymi.

Gościnnie na "Chapter I: Forever, For Now" pojawiają się: Nils Frahm (fortepian, szklana harmonijka ustna, harmonium, bęben szczelinowy), Gal Maestro (bas) i Magda Giannikou (akordeon). Za produkcję materiału odpowiada nagrodzony Grammy Arooj Aftab, z którym Anoushka Shankar współpracowała już przy "Udhero Na" z edycji deluxe albumu "Vulture Prince" Aftaba.

"Forever, For Now" to pierwsze wydawnictwo Shankar od czasu singla "In Her Name" z grudnia 2022 roku, który upamiętniał dziesiątą rocznicę zbiorowego gwałtu na Jyoti Singh Pandey w Delhi w 2012 roku.

Nastrój "Forever, For Now" wyznacza urzekający spokój otwierającego "Daydreaming (featuring Nils Frahm)", stanowiącego świeżą wariację tradycyjnej kołysanki Karnatik."