(Indian Classical, Sitar, World Music) [WEB] Anoushka Shankar (ft Manu Delago, Larry Grenadier, Mitch Jones, M.I.A., Alev Lenz, Vanessa Redgrave, Arif Durvesh, Sanjeev Shankar, Akram Khan etc.) - Land Of Gold - 2016, FLAC (tracks), lossless

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Anoushka Shankar (born 9 June 1981) is an Indian sitar player and composer. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of Norah Jones.
Shankar began training on the sitar with her father Ravi at the age of seven. As part of her training, she began accompanying him on the tanpura at his performances from the age of ten, soaking up the music and becoming acclimatised to the stage. Shankar gave her first public sitar performance on 27 February 1995 at the age of 13, at Siri Fort in New Delhi as part of her father’s 75th birthday celebration concert. For this solo debut, she was accompanied by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain. Her first experience in the recording studio came that same year when Angel Records released a special four-CD box set called In Celebration, to mark her father’s birthday. By the age of fourteen, she was accompanying her father at concerts around the world. At fifteen, she assisted her father on the landmark album Chants of India, produced by George Harrison. Under both their guidance, she was in charge of notation and eventually of conducting the performers who took part in the record. After this experience, the heads of Angel Records came to her parents' home to ask to sign her, and Anoushka signed her first exclusive recording contract with Angel Records (EMI) when she was sixteen.
She released her first album, Anoushka, in 1998, followed by Anourag in 2000. In 1999 Shankar graduated from high school with honors, but decided against university in favour of beginning to tour as a solo artist. Both Shankar and her half-sister Norah Jones were nominated for Grammy awards in 2003 when Shankar became the youngest-ever and first woman nominee in the World Music category for her third album, Live at Carnegie Hall.
Having released three albums of Indian classical music, Anoushka took several years away from recording and focused her energy on establishing herself as a solo concert performer outside of her father’s ensemble. In that time, she toured worldwide, playing an average of 50-60 concerts per year. 2005 brought the release of her fourth album RISE, her first self-produced, self-composed, non-classical album, earning her another Grammy nomination in the Best Contemporary World Music category. In February 2006 she became the first Indian to play at the Grammy Awards, playing material from RISE.
Shankar, in collaboration with Karsh Kale, released Breathing Under Water on 28 August 2007. It is a mix of classical sitar and electronica beats and melodies. Notable guest vocals included her paternal half-sister Norah Jones, Sting, and her father, who performed a sitar duet with her.
In 2011 Shankar signed with record label Deutsche Grammophon as an exclusive artist. This marked the beginning of a prolific recording and creative period for Shankar, during which time she continued to refine the sitar sound and musical ideas she had become known for. She earned a third Grammy Award nomination in 2013 for Traveller, an exploration of the shared history between flamenco and Indian classical music, which was produced by Javier Limón and featured artists such as Buika, Pepe Habichuela and Duquende. As Shankar had begun to do with Rise, she created a specially handpicked ensemble of musicians with whom to perform this cross-genre music, and played over a hundred concerts worldwide in support of Traveller. In 2013 she released a personal album called Traces of You, which was released several months after the passing of her father Ravi Shankar. Produced by Nitin Sawhney, and featuring her half-sister Norah Jones as the sole vocal performer, Traces of You earned Shankar a fourth Grammy nomination in the World Music category. In July 2015 Shankar released Home, her first purely classical album of Indian Ragas. Self-composed and produced, Home was recorded over a week in October 2014 in Shankar’s new, purpose-built home-studio.
Shankar has made many guest appearances on recordings by other artists, among them Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Thievery Corporation and Nitin Sawhney. Recently, Shankar has collaborated with Herbie Hancock on his latest record The Imagine Project, and with Rodrigy y Gabriela on their album 11:11.
Duets with artists such as violinist Joshua Bell, in a sitar-cello duet with Mstislav Rostropovich, and with flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, playing both sitar and piano, Shankar has championed her father’s compositions. Shankar is also the sole performer of Ravi Shankar’s 1st and 2nd Concertos for Sitar and Orchestra, performing multiple times under legendary conductors such as Zubin Mehta. In January 2009 she was the sitar soloist alongside the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra premièring her father’s 3rd Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra, and in July 2010 she premiered Ravi Shankar's first symphony for sitar and orchestra with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Royal Festival Hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar

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.
Notable electronic producer Matt Robertson (who is a long-term collaborator of Bjork) added cinematic soundscapes and textures, enhancing the initial compositions. Anoushka worked with a core-team of gifted musicians: At its base the album is designed as a trio of Anoushka, the famous Hang Drum player Manu Delago who performs on and co-wrote many of the pieces, and Sanjeev Shankar who was a student of her father Ravi Shankar, playing the Shehnai, a beautiful reed instrument from India.
Top notch female guest artists lend their voices to the album: M.I.A. with the Song, Jump In (Cross the Line), the wonderful singer Alev Lenz on Land of Gold and the actress and activist Vanessa Redgrave on Remain the Sea (reading a poem by Pavana Reddy). Not only do they add different musical styles and voices of different generations but all of them represent strong women known for using their voices for equality and against injustice. The last song Reunion features a girls children choir Girls for Equality.
The music is mainly based on western harmonics, features great electronic programming, string arrangements, hip hop elements, beautiful songwriting and virtuoso sitar performances embedded in exciting contemporary arrangements.

Anoushka Shankar - Sitar
Manu Delago - Hang, Asachan ESS, Additional Beat Programming
Larry Grenadier - Bass
Mitch Jones - Piano
Sanjeev Shankar - Shehnai
Caroline Dale - Cello
Blaqstarr - Production, Beat Programming
Pirashanna Thevarajah - Ghatam, Kanjira, Moorsing, Pakhawaj
Arif Durvesh - Tabla
Matt Robertson - Production, Beat Programming
Akram Khan - Ghungroo Bells
Max Baillie - Violin, Viola
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M.I.A. - Vocals and Production (3)
Chris Kemsley - Vocal Collage (4)
Alev Lenz - Vocals (5)
Vanessa Redgrave - Voice (Spoken Word) (7)
Corzano e Paterno Choir - Voice (Chants) (7)
Girls for Equality (Rhyl Primary School) - Vocals (10)
Produced by Joe Wright and Anoushka Shankar
Co-produced by Matt Robertson and Julian Hepple
Engineered by Julian Hepple
Assistant Engineer: Chris Allen (New York)
Additional percussion recordings engineered by Manu Delago
Mixed by Julian Hepple & James “Slim” Campbell at Jeevan
Music Studios, London
Mastering by Ray Staff at Air Studios, London
Recorded at:
Jeevan Music Studios, London,
September/ October 2015
Snap Studios, London, September 2015
Sear Studios, New York, October 2015
Corzano e Paterno, Tuscany, July 2015
Anoushka Shankar is published by Anourag Music Ltd. (ASCAP)
Alev Lenz is published by Manners McDade Music Publishing Ltd (PRS/ASCAP)
Maya Arulpragasam is published by BMG Right Management (UK) Ltd. (PRS)
Blaqstarr is published by Starrlite Universal Publishing (ASCAP)
News snippet: ITN Source (Dissolving Boundaries)
M.I.A. appears courtesy of Interscope Records.
Executive Producer (Deutsche Grammophon): Christian Badzura
Project Manager (Deutsche Grammophon): Leonie Petersen
2016 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin

Даже если у вас ранее не возникали мысли о погружении в таинства и тонкости индийской музыкальной культуры, после прослушивания композиций в исполнении Анушки Шанкар желание приблизиться к истокам этого культурного феномена, безусловно, проснётся.