{"title":"ganavya","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eganavya was born in New York to an American father and a Tamil mother, moved to Chennai with her mother and brother when her parents separated, and spent her childhood on the pilgrimage trail learning harikathā, the South Indian art form of musical storytelling, and training in Carnatic music and bharatanatyam under formal teachers in Chennai. She returned to the United States as a teenager, earned degrees at Broward Community College and Florida International University, and was recommended to Harvard by Quincy Jones, who heard her sing. Graduate degrees followed at Berklee College of Music, UCLA and Harvard, four in total, and a performance career that grew steadily through collaboration rather than conventional music industry routes. She co-founded the We Have Voice Collective, a non-hierarchical organisation for musicians; she worked extensively with theatre director Peter Sellars, most recently co-creating the opera \"Nine Jewelled Deer\" with set design by Julie Mehretu; she appeared at SAULT's 2023 London debut; and she co-produced her second album with Shabaka Hutchings for his Native Rebel Recordings. \"Aikyam: Onnu\" (2018), her debut, translated jazz standards into Tamil alongside devotional abhangs. \"like the sky I've been too quiet\" (Native Rebel, 2024), featuring Floating Points, Tom Herbert, Carlos Niño and Leafcutter John, moved between Carnatic tradition and ambient electronics in a setting that The Quietus described as \"a combination of English and Tamil, ambient and propulsive, Carnatic song and Appalachian folk.\" The Wall Street Journal called her \"among modern music's most compelling vocalists.\" Barack Obama included the album on his listening list. \"Daughter of a Temple\" (LEITER, 2024), on Nils Frahm's label, and \"Nilam\" (2025) followed in quick succession. She is still active and remains one of the most singular vocal presences in contemporary music.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ganavya-daughter-of-a-temple-leiter-vinyl-lp","title":"Ganavya - Daughter of a Temple (Leiter Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGanavya - \u003cem\u003eDaughter of a Temple\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2024 Leiter (LTR045, mixed by Nils Frahm)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEsperanza Spalding on double bass, Vijay Iyer on piano, Immanuel Wilkins on saxophone, Shabaka Hutchings on wind instruments, and one of Wayne Shorter's final recordings\u003c\/strong\u003e, alongside sitar, mrudangam, kanjira, harp and a 30-person gathering at Houston's Moores Opera House.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAlice Coltrane's \"Om Supreme\" and \"Journey in Satchidananda\" and John Coltrane's \"A Love Supreme\" reimagined across four movements\u003c\/strong\u003e, each dedicated to a different figure: Wadada Leo Smith, Peter Sellars, Alice Coltrane and Ione.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNamed BBC 6 Music's Best Album of 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e, recorded at a week-long ritual gathering in 2022 and mixed by Nils Frahm at his Leiter studio in Berlin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGanavya Doraiswamy was born in Queens, raised in Tamil Nadu, and trained at Berklee, UCLA and Harvard before the Wall Street Journal called her one of modern music's most compelling vocalists. For \u003cem\u003eDaughter of a Temple\u003c\/em\u003e she invited over 30 artists to a ritual gathering at the Moores Opera House in Houston in 2022, not a recording session in the conventional sense but a week-long communal event that included dancers, filmmakers, a ritualist, a stage director, textile makers and the former US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo alongside the musicians. Ryan Renteria recorded it. Nils Frahm edited and mixed it at his Leiter studio in Berlin in 2024, and it was released on Leiter, Frahm's own label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe personnel list reads like a map of contemporary jazz. Esperanza Spalding plays double bass and contributed additional production and mixing. Vijay Iyer plays piano and Immanuel Wilkins plays saxophone on \"Om Supreme,\" Alice Coltrane's composition, which builds to a ten-minute invocation. Shabaka Hutchings plays wind instruments on \"Prema Muditha.\" Shanta Nurullah plays sitar, Ranjani Swaminathan plays mrudangam and kanjira, and Rasika Shekar plays flute, grounding the ensemble in South Indian classical tradition. Wayne Shorter and his wife Carolina play beads and bells on \"Elders Wayne and Carolina,\" reciting the Buddhist chant \"Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.\" Shorter died on March 2, 2023, making this one of his final recordings. Ganavya sings, plays double bass and kalimba, and produced the album. The second half reimagines John Coltrane's \u003cem\u003eA Love Supreme\u003c\/em\u003e across four movements, each named for a different figure: the trumpeter and AACM member Wadada Leo Smith, the theatre director Peter Sellars (who speaks on his movement), Alice Coltrane, and the author Ione. This is the 2024 Leiter release (LTR045).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leiter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44170243670075,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/a0240216260_10_02a8d812-d62d-4cd8-9fdd-863cf678cca9.jpg?v=1789113181"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/ganavya.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}