From 2019 through 2023, Sharada Shashidhar made memorable vocal contributions to projects by fellow Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra associate Jamael Dean, Carlos Niño, Zeroh, and elder brother Kedar. She truly arrived in 2024 with her own Soft Echoes, a progressive set singled out by BBC DJ Gilles Peterson as one of his ten favorite jazz albums of the year. With this rather different follow-up, Shashidhar reasserts that she is among the more left-field singers to have graduated from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Closer in that regard to Bilal than to José James or Jazzmeia Horn, she gleans from spiritual jazz and classical Indian music, slightly favors non-lexical vocables over lyrics, and demonstrates more than ever here that she is plugged…

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