Aftab wrote the piece in 2005 with lyrics Ye aine mein chehra mera toh nahi, tum hi dikhayi diye har jagah kahin. Shankar merges interludes she played in Bright Eyes – an extremely personal piece that explored infidelity and loss in raag Bhairavi – with some new ideas. Mohabbat was a part of the original album. Udhero na was a piece that had appeared on the deluxe edition of Aftab’s breakout album, Vulture Prince. She found much criticism then for not crediting the original artistes in her acceptance speech and no acknowledgement for Hassan anywhere. Shankar is also nominated in the Best Global Music Performance category, this time for Udhero na, a collaboration with Arooj Aftab, Pakistan’s first woman Grammy winner, who’d won the award last year for reinterpreting Mehdi Hassan and Hafeez Hoshiyarpuri’s famed ghazal, Mohabbat karne wale.
What’s very interesting to note here is that a live album has made it to the list. Shankar will be presenting the album in India this year on a three-city tour.
The album was recorded in 2018 during concerts in the Netherlands and has a plethora of artistes collaborating with her on music from four of her past solo albums – Rise (2005), Traces Of You (2013), Traveller (2015) and Land of Gold (2016). The latter marks this as the first ever nomination for any musicians from Bangladesh.īerklee Indian Ensemble, besides competing with Nigerian musician Burna Boy (Love, Damini), African music star and five-time Grammy winner Angélique Kidjo & French trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf (Queen of Sheba), Japanese multi-instrumentalist Masa Takumi and India’s own Anoushka Shankar (Between Us… (Live) whose collaborative project with Metropole Orkest & Jules Buckley Featuring hang drum expert Manu Delago is in the running too.īetween Us – Shankar’s recent project – comprises the sitar player’s compositions, reinterpreted in a contemporary orchestral space. While the album includes collaborations with Hussain and Ghoshal, the other songs are pieces done with Delhi-based duo Shadow and Light (Pavithra Chari and Anindo Bose), playback singer Vijay Prakash, vocalist Dhruv Goel and a significant piece with Bangladeshi singer-songwriter Armeen Musa and her mother and eminent Nazrul geet exponent Nashid Kamal. The Ensemble’s debut, Shuruaat (meaning Beginning in Hindi) – which puts together 10 of their most sought-after original collaborations – has found a nomination at the 65th Grammys, which were announced last night by the Recording Academy. Sing That Thing! Season 3, from the WGBH Studios in Boston, MASS.Īfter numerous songs that have found much attention and affection on social media, collaborations with artistes such as Ustad Zakir Hussain, Shreya Ghoshal and Shankar Mahadevan, among others, Philip’s Ensemble has found fruition in ways she hadn’t imagined.
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