Hand of Thought Sanaya Ardeshir

• Sanaya Ardeshir: Hand of Thought:
• 1 Ardeshir: Hand of Thought 05:11
• Between Dreams:
• 2 Ardeshir: Between Dreams 03:52
• Trains:
• 3 Ardeshir: Trains 03:06
• Barefoot Steps:
• 4 Ardeshir: Barefoot Steps 05:06
• Deccan Queen:
• 5 Ardeshir: Deccan Queen 03:18
• Spiral:
• 6 Ardeshir: Spiral 03:45
• Missing Links:
• 7 Ardeshir: Missing Links 02:05
• Nora's House:
• 8 Ardeshir: Nora's House 03:04
• Total Runtime 29:27

Info zu Hand of Thought

"Hand of Thought" is the first full-length release by Indian composer Sanaya Ardeshir under her own name — introducing a parallel practice that exists alongside her work as electronic producer Sandunes. The album examines matrilineality – the tracing of kinship through the female bloodline – and its manifestation as intuition and wisdom through the trans-generational currency of music and her primary instrument - the piano. The album title is inspired by Kosho Uchiyama’s Opening the Hand Of Thought - a seminal work in the development of Buddhism throughout East Asia.

The album looks at kinship traced through the female blood line or the matrilineal thread, through the lens of Parsi women in my family, growing up in Bombay in the mid 1900s. The Parsi community is a tiny community of less than 100,000 remaining members. They are descended from Persian refugees who migrated to the Indian subcontinent during and after the Arab-Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century. It also references ancestry and the idea of living out the lives of our ancestors - carrying their potential as well as their deficiencies - as something that makes room for inter-generational collaboration, or weaving a shared history across generations, or something of an esoteric lens that we inherit by means of dreams, hopes, fears, or unresolved karma. The Hand of Thought is the hand extended across generations, weaving together a shared ownership of history and a refusal to let the light of creation be extinguished.

The album marks a debut release on Karigar Records — a new label co-founded by Krishna Jhaveri and Sanaya Ardeshir. Karigar/ कारीगर — translates to artisan or craftsman in several South Asian languages — evoking a lineage of makers, builders, dreamers who forge new meaning from traditional forms.

Sanaya Ardeshir, piano, Fender Rhodes, synthesizers
Shirish Malhotra, flute, alto flute, tenor saxophone
Rhys Sebastian, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
Neil Waters, trumpet
Nathan Thomas, electric bass
Sarathy Korwar, drums, percussion, tabla (tracks 4, 5)

Sandunes aka Sanaya Ardeshir
is a composer, producer and pianist from Mumbai, India in the process of relocating to LA to pursue a new chapter in life and music, in line with the release of her third transcendental album which will be released as her debut on Tru Thoughts records.

Surrounded by instruments growing up, Sanaya began learning piano from the age of 6. She would listen to her families collection of records “jazz, blues, broadway musicals, Americana, folk, and a fair bit of classical music” which she describes as ”a very postcolonial soundscape… which was sort of typical for a Parsi family in urban India back in the 90s.”. As her father experienced as part of a band who had to build their own amps, alternative music, particularly live alternative music, was harder to come by, and much harder to pursue compared to today.

As a child, Sanaya recalls running between the piano and CD player in the living room, pausing Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson records and trying to figure out those pieces. Piano lessons eventually lead to recitals and before long Sanaya was exposed to the world of producing when rehearsing at her friend’s studio with her college funk and jam band. Later attending Point Blank School in London to pursue her newfound love of music production, she was inspired by incredible music, performance and magic at the intersection of electronic and acoustic sounds. Now, Sanaya “thinks in sound” making her music with an urgency, expressing herself and cherishing its sacrality as a means to connect with the world. Her sound constantly evolves, “revealing itself to me in real time” she adds.

“I think music is going to be one of the last living threads that keeps us tethered to what is human, primal and collective as we venture into hyper-individuated terrain where technology informs so much of our social culture”

In 2017 Sanaya’s tour ended with an opening slot for Bonobo at the Manchester International Festival. Whilst in the UK she worked on Different Trains 1947, a collaboration between India and the UK commissioned by Warp Records and Boiler Room funded by the British Council. The project used Steve Reich’s ‘Different Trains’ as the main springboard, but set to the context of the Partition of India and the ghost trains between India and Pakistan of the time and included a performance at London’s Barbican Centre. Her unforgettably enchanting live renditions are performed with anything from a solo show up to an eleven-piece band.

Sanaya has also supported George FitzGerald’s album release tour at Evolutionary Arts Hackney, toured the US supporting Pretty Lights, remixed a track from Grammy award-nominated Anoushka Shanker, provided a guest mix for NTS and hosted a radio show as part of the BBC Asian Network residency and released a collaborative album with celebrated UK jazz drummer Richard Spaven. In addition to releasing music, she also works as a sound designer having most recently composed music and designed sound in spatial audio for a first-of-it’s-kind 15 room exhibition titled “India in Fashion”, commissioned by the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai. As well as joining NTS for a guest mix, her previous work has gained praise from international and local tastemakers across various media; Rolling Stone, The Quietus, The Guardian, Red Bull Radio and Resident Advisor to name a few.

The pensive nature of Sandunes body of work is often informed by her interests, which extend into pedagogy, mentorship and mindfulness. She has appeared as a guest lecturer at Ableton’s Loop Summit for Music Makers, Today At Apple at India’s first Apple Store, and is the co-founder of Ears to the Ground, a trans media project with Krishna Jhaveri which centres around activated listening, field recordings, and the potential to sustain dialogue around climate justice through sound-forward spaces, experiences and installations. The project seeks to reinvent itself at every juncture as a young exploration of the oldest Mountain range in India – the Western Ghats.

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet