Ganavya - like the sky I've been too quiet (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Ambient, Folk, Fusion, Jazz… South-Asian vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer Ganavya releases her new studio album “Like the sky I've been too quiet” on Shabaka Hutchings’ Native Rebel Recordings. The album features contributions from artists including Kofi Flexxx, Floating Points, Carlos Niño, Leafcutter John and Mercury-nominated bassist Tom Herbert.

With a voice described as “a thick ephemera” (New York Times), “aching emotional intensity” (JazzTimes), “extraordinary” (DownBeat), and “haunting” (All About Jazz) vocalist, scholar, and multi instrumentalist ganavya lives, learns, and loves fluidly from the nexus of many frameworks and understandings. Her recent works include a ritual gathering to honor Swami Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda titled Daughter of a Temple, this body is so impermanent… (2021; directed by Peter Sellars), and Jerome Foundation commission Let’s Go Out and Play (2021).

Since graduating from Berklee College of Music, UCLA and Harvard, Ganavya has quickly become a much-in-demand artist on the US scene who consistently confounds expectations. Hailed as “among modern music's most compelling vocalists” (Wall Street Journal), “most enchanting” (NPR) and "extraordinary" (DownBeat), Ganavya has worked with an array of luminaries including the likes of Quincy Jones, Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding and on new album "Like the sky I've been too quiet" she presents thirteen compelling tracks which showcase her ethereal voice and numinous energy.

"A combination of English and Tamil, ambient and propulsive, Carnatic song and Appalachian folk, make for a deeply sentimental yet inventive record." (Antonio Poscic)

“Among modern music's most compelling vocalists” (Wall Street Journal)

Ganavya creates a lush twine out of American and South Asian traditions, and on “Aikyam: Onnu,” this vocalist and scholar’s majestic debut album, the upshot feels more like an expansive invitation than any definable hybrid. Ganavya has populated jazz standards with lyrics from Tamil poetry and songs of anticolonial resistance… No matter the language or the content, Ganavya’s voice is a thick ephemera, like smoke as dark as ink, just coming off the fire." (New York Times)

Tracklist
01 - not in an anthropological mood
02 - first notebook of songs
03 - forgive me my
04 - seal
05 - el kebda, let it go
06 - we made it to the underpass
07 - our mother is our daughter is our mother
08 - (sister said) home is a direction
09 - we're still at the underpass
10 - call it luck if you want to
11 - call her by her name, enheduanna
12 - growing sense of wonder
13 - I walk again, eyes towards the Sky