A Child of Indian Classical Music and Goa-Anoushka Shankar: The Echoes Interview
Anoushka Shankar has released an impressive trilogy of EPs in the last year that take her sitar in different directions including deep ambient music. Over the last 2 decades or she has found her own path in the music world that draws on the traditions her father, sitarist Ravi Shankar taught her as well as his sense of experimentation. She’s taken the sitar in such new directions that sometimes you don’t know it’s a sitar at all.
Anouska Shankar: So suddenly I could play one note and have it ring for 50 seconds and then become more orchestral than I usually am as a lead instrument, because I can layer these long, long 50 second reverb notes and think in that way where I’m creating a bed of sound.
Anoushka Shankar. I talk with her today on Echoes about Goa and her recent trilogy of eps, Chapter I: Forever, For Now, Chapter II: How Dark It Is Before the Dawn and Chapter III: We Return to Light. John Diliberto talks to this master musician who has stepped way out of the shadow of her father on Echoes from PRX.