New Delhi: After her last album Rise, which was nominated for a Grammy, Anoushka Shankar is out with her latest album with percussionist and producer Karsh Kale that has contributions from Sting and Norha Jones as well as her father, Pt Ravi Shankar and Shankar Mahadevan. Reshil Charles caught up with her and Karsh to find out more.

Reshil Charles: Anoushka the album is called Breathing Under Water, I reckon, can you tell just a bit about the album.

Anoushka Shankar: It is a mix of a whole bunch of things. The main thing about this record is that it is a collaboration between Karsh and myself. It is definitely building further than when I was making Rise. I have gained from that and went further. But is very different, it is less moody record.

Karsh Kale: What we were excited about was all the different places that we have been and how we could take all those journeys and make it even bigger. My contribution was my experience as an artist, as a producer, and as a composer.

Reshil Charles: We want to see you on the Live Circuit, we don’t want to see you in the Kamani Auditorium with a sitar, which is great of course, but we want to see you in the clubs and see you experimenting, are we going to see any of that this year?

Anoushka Shankar: Hopefully, I am actually doing the classical circuit this time. I have got a couple of shows in support of the World Food Programme, of which I am ambassador. We have got a couple of shows around the country for the album that we will be doing, so obviously it will be a very different type of tone.

Reshil Charles: So you have a great time and best of luck with the album.