Anoushka Shankar's Sitar Evolution: The Echoes Interview

Anoushka Shankar has released an impressive trilogy of EPs in the last year that take her sitar in different directions. Chapter I: Forever For Now; Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before the Dawn; and Chapter III: We Return to Light, find Shankar in three different settings: World Fusion, Ambient and Improvisation. She also has three different producers, including Pakistani-American singer and producer, Arooj Aftab. John Diliberto talks to this master musician who has stepped way out of the shadow of her father, on the next Echoes from PRX.
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Monday, July 14, 2025 – Echoes Program 2528A |
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Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Sumner McKane | Havre | Stone’s Throw |
| 0:06:00 | Marcator | Treibholz 2025 | PanAroma Reincarnations |
| 0:09:23 | Savanti! Chamber Orchestra | May This Be Love | Rockover |
| 0:13:49 | Amy Millan | Murmurations | I Went To Find You |
| 0:16:44 | AVAWAVES | Wedding | Buccaneers Season 2 (OST) |
| 0:20:03 | Molly Dean | Through it All | Interwoven |
| 0:24:34 | Oine | Time | Time (single) |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Anoushka Shankar | ||
| 0:45:55 | Anoushka Shankar | Stolen Moments | Chapter I: Forever For Now |
| 0:52:01 | Anoushka Shankar | New Dawn | Chapter II: How Dark it is Before the Dawn |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | The Sabres of Paradise | Smokebelch II [Beatless Mix] | Chilled Euphoria (v/a) |
| 1:06:00 | SHEL | The Battle of Evermore | SHEL |
| 1:11:07 | Nicholas Gunn | Campfire | 30 |
| 1:15:21 | aeseaes | Humdrum | Opia |
| 1:17:41 | Arc De Soleil | Lumin Rain | Lumin Rain |
| 1:20:52 | Message to Bears | River Calls | Tired Eyes Waking Hearts |
| 1:24:31 | Popol Vuh | Geimenschaft | Coeur de Verre |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Marissa Nadler | Hatchet Man | New Radiations |
| 1:34:33 | Ravi Kulur & Barry Phillips | The Path Unfolds | Breath & Bow |
| 1:40:34 | Eric Hilton | L’ Ocean (feat Natalia Clavier) | Midnight Ragas |
| 1:45:02 | Pan American & Kramer | Blind to the Last of its Kind | Interior of an Edifice Under the Sea |
| 1:49:28 | Caroline Polachek | On the Beach | On the Beach (Single) |
| 1:53:35 | Mark Dwane | Aeon Four | Aeons |
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