Every week, we bring you a must-hear track from the Le Guess Who? 2018 line-up. This week, we dwell on the emotional instrumental track 'Boat to Nowhere' by renowned sitar player Anoushka Shankar. 'B...
Every week, we bring you a must-hear track from the Le Guess Who? 2018 line-up. This week, we dwell on the emotional instrumental track 'Boat to Nowhere' by renowned sitar player Anoushka Shankar.
'Boat to Nowhere' is the opening track of Shankar's 2016 album 'Land of Gold', with which Shankar fiercely criticizes the refugee crisis. On the album, she makes an appeal to everyone to meet his or her humanitarian duty. 'Land of Gold' was nominated for a Grammy, which marked Shankar's sixth Grammy nomination.
Anoushka Shankar co-wrote 'Boat to Nowhere' with Austrian Hang-player and Björk collaborator Manu Delago, who will perform at Le Guess Who? 2018 together with Shankar. The song is strongly characterized by Shankar's distinctive sitar playing, influenced by Indian sounds as well as contemporary music. Another inspiration came from the moody soundscapes of producer Matt Robertson.
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Anoushka Shankar will perform at Le Guess Who? 2018 together with Austrian Hang-player Manu Delago and the 27-member string section of the Metropole Orchestra. Also performing at the festival are a.o. Kadri Gopalnath, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Neneh Cherry, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Cüneyt Sepetçi, Emel Mathlouthi, Kelsey Lu, Nicole Mitchell, Georgia Anne Muldrow & The Righteous, and many more.
