Close your eyes. Imagine the dawning of the earth: the sun rising slowly through a soft mist, spreading warmth, light and hope across an undulating landscape of jagged mountains, lush foliage, free-flowing rivers… Then conjure a soundtrack. The morning ragas of Indian classical music, perhaps. Or indeed, Nilam, the second album by celebrated New York City-born, South India-raised singer, experimentalist and multi-instrumentalist ganavya, the owner of a voice so profound, so intimate and spiritual, that it seems double as a reminder of why we are here.
Technically speaking (although to do so is to detract from the beauty), ganavya’s melodic manoeuvres are to be marvelled at. The inclusion of the ancient, formerly extinct Tamil harp,…

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