Anoushka Shankar to release new album faturing Nils Frahm and produced by Arooj Aftab

The announcement of Chapter I: Forever, For Now and the release of the single, "Stolen Moments", marks Shankar’s first new music since 2022’s standalone single "In Her Name", which commemorated the tenth anniversary of the gang rape in Delhi of Jyoti Singh Pandey.

The mini album also follows Between Us..., her live album for LEITER earlier the same year, recorded with Jules Buckley and the Metropole Orkest which went on to receive a Grammy nomination for Best Global Album in 2023.

Recorded at LEITER’s studio in 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 Arooj Aftab, with whom Shankar had previously collaborated on "Udhero Na" from the deluxe edition of Aftab’s Vulture Prince album.

Right from the outset, Shankar’s intention over the three releases was to work with a different producer on each mini-album, and Aftab was an obvious candidate for these inaugural sessions.

“I’d always thought she was brilliant,” Shankar recalls. “and working together on "Udhero Na" confirmed our collaborative chemistry. I love the genre-fluid world she creates with thoughtful arrangements and sonic spaces. It’s something I also value in my own work, but she does it differently. I was really drawn to that different voice, that different colour.”

Tracklist:

1. Daydreaming (feat. Nils Frahm)
2. Stolen Moments
3. What Will We Remember?
4. Sleeping Flowers (Awaken Every Spring)