Anoushka Shankar teams up with Arooj Aftab on new mini-album

It follows her Grammy-nominated live album.

Sitar player, producer and composer Anoushka Shankar will release a new mini-album this October.

Chapter I: Forever, For Now will be released on Nils Frahm’s LEITER label and features production from Arooj Aftab. It follows Between Us…, Shankar’s live album which received a Grammy nomination for Best Global Album in 2023.

This mini-album is the first chapter in a trilogy of releases that Shankar will be writing and releasing between tours.

See a preview of the album below.

Shankar describes working with Aftab on the release: “I’d always thought she was brilliant and working together on ‘Udhero Na’ confirmed our collaborative chemistry. I love the genre-fluid world she creates with thoughtful arrangements and sonic spaces. It’s something I also value in my own work, but she does it differently. I was really drawn to that different voice, that different colour.”

Chapter I: Forever, For Now will be available on limited edition vinyl on October 6. Pre-order now.