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Bobby Friction sits in and chats to British Asian singer Sheila Chandra about her career to date and the forthcoming release of her album Echo.

Bobby Friction sits in and chats to British Asian singer Sheila Chandra about her career to date and the forthcoming release of her album Echo.

Sheila Chandra as a South London born singer and composer who rose to fame as Monsoon in the early 1980s. Her work has moved from the raga-influenced pop of Monsoon into a radical solo language built around voice, drone and vocal traditions from across the world.

The new album Echo was assembled after an extensive search for surviving concert, TV and radio-session recordings from across her performing career, with Chandra selecting the performances herself. The title Echo loosely references the nymph of Greek myth who lost the ability to speak in her own voice. It has a particular resonance for Chandra, who was forced to retire from singing after developing burning mouth syndrome.

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  • Jimi Hendrix

    Angel

    • MCA.

  • Boards of Canada

    Father And Son

    • Inferno.
    • Warp Records Limited.
    • 5.

  • Transglobal Underground

    Ali Mullah

    • Rejoice, Rejoice.
    • Nation.
    • 8.

  • DakhaBrakha

    Baby

    • DakhaBrakha.

  • Kefaya

    Indignados

    • Giuliano Modarelli.

  • Sudan Archives

    Come Meh Way

    • Stones Throw Records, LLC.

  • ROSALÍA

    Berghain (feat. Björk & Yves Tumor)

    • Columbia.

  • Weyes Blood

    Andromeda

    • Titanic Rising.
    • Sub Pop.

  • Chris Cornell

    A Day In The Life - Live At The Royal Albert Hall - 2016

    • Universal Music Operations Ltd.

  • Lapgan & Maral

    Durga Doesn't Approve (Maral Remix)

    • Duniya Kya Hai (Remixes).
    • FADER Label.
    • 1.

  • Tyler Childers & OurVinyl

    Whitehouse Road (OurVinyl Sessions)

    • OurVinyl TV, Inc..

  • Prince

    U Know

    • Art Official Age.
    • Legacy Recordings.
    • 5.

  • Monsoon

    Ever So Lonely

    • Music Of The Year: 1982 (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum.
    • 12.

  • Sheila Chandra

    Lament Of Mccrimmon/Song Of The Banshee

    • Silk 1983-1990.
    • Indipop.

  • Sheila Chandra

    Speaking in Tongues I

    • Weaving My Ancestors' Voices.
    • Real World Records.
    • 1.

  • Sheila Chandra

    One

    • Paul Hillery presents Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours Volume 3.
    • BBE Music.
    • 1.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Big Love (Live at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, CA 5/23/97)

    • The Dance.
    • Warner Records.
    • 8.

  • EXCISE DEPT

    Toxic

    • EXCISE DEPT.

  • BALTHVS

    Ashes

    • Balthazar Colmenares.

  • Art of Noise

    Paranoimia [7" Mix] (feat. Max Headroom)

    • In Visible Silence (Deluxe Edition).
    • WM UK.
    • 12.

  • Pink Floyd

    Mother

    • The Wall.
    • Pink Floyd Records.
    • 6.

  • Lee “Scratch” Perry

    Mindworker (feat. Gaudi)

    • Heavy Rain.
    • On-U Sound.
    • 4.

  • Beck

    Paper Tiger

    • Sea Change.
    • Interscope.
    • 2.

  • BombayMami

    Jaloux

    • Peaceful Attitude.
    • MNRK Records LP.
    • 4.

  • Robert Glasper

    Maiden Voyage / Everything In Its Right Place (Medley)

    • In My Element.
    • Blue Note Records.
    • 7.

  • The Aloof

    One Night Stand [7'' Version]

    • EastWest.

  • 1 Giant Leap, Michael Stipe & Asha Bhosle

    The Way You Dream

    • 1 Giant Leap.
    • Virgin Records (India) Pvt Ltd..
    • 3.

  • 10lec6

    SI YE YE

    • 10LEC6 - Grand Musique Management.

  • The Chemical Brothers

    Another World

    • Further.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 3.

  • Thom Yorke

    Suspirium

    • XL Recordings.

  • Charlotte Gainsbourg

    Deadly Valentine

    • Because Music.

  • Ali Sethi & Gregory Rogove

    Angana

    • Room Jhoom.
    • Zubberdust Media, LLC.
    • 4.

  • MIDIval PunditZ & Vidhi Sharma

    Space

    • Gravity Sounds.

  • Death in Vegas

    Neptune City

    • The Contino Sessions.
    • Deconstruction/Concrete.
    • 9.

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