4/15/2021 0 Comments Anoushka Shankar Tour 2019
The acclaimed sitar player and composer has spent the past couple months performing around the country in promotion of her 2019 compilation album, Reflections, which takes listeners back through the last two decades of her accomplished career.Shankar opened her performance with a slightly-lengthy rendition of Voice of the Moon, which began slow but eventually worked its way to a median tempo as she and her flutist Ravichandra Kulur spent some time musically dancing with one another before eventually trading solos.Together, the two combined the vastly different musical universes with the duet performance of Fathers alongside her pianist, Danny Keane.
They then transitioned right into The Sun Wont Set, with Kulur filling in for the songs vocal partwhich was sung by Shankars half-sister Norah Jones on the original recording. The suite was as dynamic as it was long, but kept the listener intensely focused in on where the music may be headed next from its start to finish. The highlight(s) of the lengthy suite had to be the incredible back-and-forth play between her tabla and mridangam players Ojas Adhiya and Pirashanna Thevarajah, who each furiously hammered away on their percussion instruments in a manner (and time signatures) that would put most Western drummers to shame. Alongside conductor and arranger Jules Buckley, Anoushka combines recordings of some of Ravi Shankars works both with her own sitar improvisations and with live electronics by composerproducer Gold Panda. 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, two Eastern Eye Awards for Music and a Songlines Best Artist Award. Anoushka has the notable honour of becoming the first Indian musician to perform live at the Grammy Awards. During her twenty-five years as a live, touring sitarist, Anouska has come to be known for her deeply emotional and fiery playing style, surprising and inventive instrumentation, and intense rhythmic interplay. ![]() Anoushka Shankar Tour 2019 Professional Debut AtAnoushka studied the sitar and Indian Classical music from the age of nine exclusively under her father and guru, the late, legendary Ravi Shankar, and made her professional debut at the age of 13. ![]() With the latter she became the first Indian woman to be nominated for a Grammy award, and the youngest-ever nominee in the World Music category. Having worked full-time as a musician throughout her teenaged years, in her early twenties Anoushka took a break from making albums and looked towards other creative outlets. She authored a biography on her father, Bapi: The Love of My Life, and became a regular columnist for New Delhis First City magazine and Indias national newspaper The Hindustan Times. She experimented with film by acting in Pamela Rooks Dance Like a Man, for which she trained as a Bharatanatyam dancer and was nominated for Indias prestigious National Award for Best Debut. However, her explorations in writing, dancing and acting only served to confirm that her first love was music. Feeling a deep desire to create music which more closely represented her multicultural life and identity, in 2005 Anoushka released her self-produced, self-composed breakthrough Rise, which found her stepping into a new cross-cultural sound-world and earned her a second Grammy nomination. In 2007 she spread her wings further and released the experimental, conceptual album Breathing Under Water in collaboration with producermulti-instrumentalist Karsh Kale. In this period she also began a fulfilling journey as a guest artist, demonstrating the versatility of the sitar by collaborating with varied artists starting with Sting, Herbie Hancock and Thievery Corporation, moving through Lenny Kravitz, Joshua Bell, MIDIval Punditz and Rodrigo y Gabriela, and most recently Gold Panda, Deva Premal and Milos Karadaglic. In 2011 she signed to the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label and enjoyed a fertile creative period, releasing four more solo albums, each of which received Grammy Award nominations: Traveller (produced by Javier Limon) examined the relationship between Indian Classical music and Spanish flamenco, and featured legends Pepe Habichuela, Shubha Mudgal and Duquende; Traces of You (produced by Nitin Sawhney) found Anoushka collaborating with her half-sister Norah Jones on deep meditations of love and loss; Home was an offering of Indian Classical ragas recorded as a tribute to her late father; and Land of Gold was written in response to the global humanitarian refugee crisis, and featured guest artists M.I.A, Vanessa Redgrave and Alev Lenz. Finally in 2019 she released a fifth album under Deutsche Grammophon: Reflections, a compilation album mapping highlights from her 20-year recording career. Anoushkas artistic output increasingly reflects her impassioned support of womens rights and social justice. In response to the horrific gang-rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey in Delhi in 2011, Shankar threw her weight behind the campaign One Billion Rising on Change.org. When touring her album Land of Gold she used the opportunity to speak about the refugee crisis and raise funds for the charity Help Refugees. Other recent projects include hosting a radio show about gender equality to promote the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and coordinating a call-to-action to the UK government in response to the European refugee crisis. She narrated Stolen Innocence, a documentary film about human trafficking, which released in Autumn 2017. Anoushka Shankar Tour 2019 Series Of ConcertsAnoushka was made Associate Artist of Londons iconic South Bank Centre from 2019, where she will perform a series of concerts across the centres multiple venues in the coming seasons. Current and future projects include a live duo with electronic musician Gold Panda, orchestral performances of her compositions (arranged by Jules Buckley), live performancescreenings of her new film score to the 1928 silent film Shiraz, and special gala performances in 2020 commemorating the centenary of her father Ravi Shankars birth. In the Best Global Music Album category, Anoushka Shankar has received her 7th Grammy nomination for the exquisite Love Letters. ![]()
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