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Re-press of the sold-out 2024 album. Described by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the most fascinating singers in modern music," New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised singer and multi-instrumentalist Ganavya released her album Daughter of a Temple in November 2024. For the album, she invited over 30 artists from various disciplines to a ritual gathering in Houston. Accordingly, the resulting album features numerous contributors, including renowned musicians such as esperanza spalding, Vijay Iyer, Shabaka Hutchings, Immanuel Wilkins, and Peter Sellars. The results, an innovative and deeply moving blend of spiritual jazz and South Asian sacred music, were first recorded by Ryan Renteria and then further processed and mixed by Nils Frahm at LEITER Studio in Berlin in 2024. Ganavya is the author and singer of the first Tamil lyrics to win a Latin Grammy, she was a singer in Vijay Iyer's Ritual Quartet and solo singer on Quincy Jones's "Tocororo," which reached number 1 in the jazz charts. She recorded her latest album, Like The Sky I've Been Too Quiet, with Shabaka Hutchings and features guests such as Floating Points, Tom Herbert, Carlos Niño, and Leafcutter John.
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New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised singer and transdisciplinarian Ganavya presents a new album, Nilam. It follows Daughter Of A Temple, Gilles Peterson's BBC 6 Music Album of the Year, similarly declared one of 2024's Top 10 Best Global Albums by The Guardian, who applauded Ganavya's ability to harness "the power of communal harmony to touch something deeper than song." Co-produced by Nils Frahm at Leiter Studio in Berlin's Funkhaus complex. Listening to the remarkable Nilam, it seems implausible now that its inception might ever have been in doubt. So astonishing is its stillness, so profound its communication of sentiment, it feels as if it was always meant to be. A celebration of the ties that bind, and possibly the most tender-hearted music listeners will hear this year, it's intimate and honest, a poignant expression of gratitude for the blessings which keep people grounded, if only they'll recognize and welcome them. Indeed, it could have been transmitted directly from soul to stereo, from the way "Not A Burden" lifts a weight off the world's shoulders to the peaceful "Sees Fire," with "Land"'s gentle groove full of space, "Nine Jeweled Prayer" serenely precious, and, throughout, Ganavya's vocals like ripples on a lagoon.
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