Anoushka Shankar

Chapter III: We Return To Light LEITER. DL/LP THE THIRD in Shankar’s trilogy of EPs brings us full circle in time – to the early morning where Chapter I began – but relocates the musical mood to India (after London and California), bringing in as collaborators Alam Khan (son of Ali Akbar Khan) on sarod, and the percussionist Sarathy Korwar. The theme of the musicians’ heritage is keenly felt on opener Daybreak, which finds Khan and Shankar playing almost as one over a growing bass line. On Hiraeth (the Welsh term for a nostalgic homesickness), Shankar dances with an insistent motif over an emotion-tugging background. Other titles hint at a world going awry – Dancing On Scorched Earth, very Massive Attack-like – with sanctuary lying in humanity’s better nature (We…

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