SHARADA SHASHIDHAR Soft Echoes (2024 US/EU limited edition
6-track LP on classic black vinyl. Sharada Shashidhar is a Los Angeles
based vocalist, composer and producer. Her soulful voice takes
inspiration from jazz and Indian classical music,which influences her
songwriting and productions. Her elaborate harmonies and vocal
creativity come together in a new beat-orientated spiritual jazz. Soft
Echoes is a bold step forward, eschewing her previous work’s hip-hop
tilt for expansivecompositions that blend jazz and Indian classical
influences into a swirling, spiritual whole. Picture sleeve, factory
sealed. Recommended).
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Sharada Shashidhar Soft Echoes - Black Vinyl - Sealed UK vinyl LP album (LP record)
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| Tracklisting / Additional Info: |
Though she has an extensive resume as a collaborator in LA’s experimental jazz scene, notching work with the likes of Carlos Niño, Zeroh, and the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Soft Echoes marks Shashidhar’s first outing as a bandleader. Gathering an ensemble that includes Anna Butters on bass, Julian Rodriguez on keys, Devin Daniels on saxophone, and Timothy Angulo on drums, Shashidhar sought to create a band that ostensibly functioned as an extension of herself. Her primary goals in writing these songs were to “let [her] body do what it wanted to do,” to trust her intuition, and “play without judgment.” Through that process, making Soft Echoes became a practice of presence and exploration, a chance to unlearn rigid structures and rediscover the joy of creating for oneself.
Recording took place over three brief, distinct sessions at Altamira Sound in Alhambra, California. Though the full band wasn’t ever present at the same time, Soft Echoes sounds like the work of a group in complete, mind-meld focus. Splashy drums nudge up against skronkingsaxophone on “Canyon Song,” while mushrooming synth tones stack up behind rippling Rhodes piano on “Luckiest.” Shashidhar’s elegant voice is the anchor for each of these tracks, sometimes gracefully stretching between instruments like a lithe dancer’s limbs, other times scattering through psychedelic delay.
She describes the album as having “two poles,” illustrated by the whimsical, buoyant opener “Soft Echoes” and the darker, more anxiety-ridden closer, “New Echoes.” The songs in between may come from different emotional spaces, but “it’s all really reflective,” she explains. The album can play like a loop, with Shashidhar entering a portal “into the endlessness” during “New Echoes,” only to be transported back to the beginning, full of gratitude and pondering “how strange it is to be alive.” On Soft Echoes, Shashidhar leads us on a journey through her mind, traversing its peaks and canyons in search of greater connection. “I want to take people places,” she says, pausing thoughtfully. “I can’t always guarantee that they’re good places, [but] hopefully you’ll feel something.”
Side A
1. Soft Echoes
2. By The Land
3. As I Am
Side B
1. Canyon Song
2. Luckiest
3. New Echoes
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| Condition : |
Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
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| Year of Release: |
2024 |
| Artist: |
Sharada Shashidhar (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
Soft Echoes (click here for more of the same title) |
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| Format: |
vinyl LP album (LP record) |
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| Record Label: |
Leaving Records |
| Catalogue No: |
LR 267 |
| Country of Origin: |
UK
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
20 December 2024
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| EIL.COM Ref No |
7-DLPSO853217 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
196922967849 |
| Genres: |
Experimental, Indian acts, Jazz
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| Complete Stock List: |
Sharada Shashidhar |
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