Name: Weaving My Ancestors' Voices
Brand: Sheila Chandra

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LPRW24X

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-16

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PIAS

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884108012819

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Black LP

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884108012802

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Sheila Chandra

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Rest of World

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Real World

Recording studios established by [a11136]. (Legal entity behind the recording operations Real World Studios Ltd.)

Real World Studios is a residential recording studio in Box, Wiltshire, England associated with the [l4066] Ltd. record label, founded by [a11136].
Among many other unique facilities it has one of the world's largest control rooms, which allows special recording situations whereby musicians, engineers, producers and guests are no longer separated during the recording process.

Name variations as it appears on one or more releases:
- Real World Studios, England
- Real World Studios, Bath
- Realworld Studios
- The Bunker at Real World Studios (UK)
- The Bunker, Real World Studios (UK)
- The Bunker, Real World Studios, England
- The Bunker

Sheila Chandra is a writer and retired English vocalist and actress of South Indian descent. She now coaches creative professionals and has written two guidebooks for improving organizational skills.
Chandra first gained fame as a teenage actress on the British teen school soap "Grange Hill" playing the character Sudhamani Patel between 1979 and 1981. Her future husband and musical partner, Steve Coe, discovered her talent when he found one of her demo tapes in a box at Hansa. He was looking for a vocalist for his Asian fusion band Monsoon at the time.
Monsoon's debut single, "Ever So Lonely", recorded when Chandra was just 16 years old, reached #9 in the UK charts in April 1982. However, subsequent singles had less impact and she left the group by the end of that year. Chandra went on to release four solo albums with Indipop before retiring from music at the age of 20.
In 1991, she made a comeback with her fifth solo album called "Roots and Wings," where she began experimenting with drone-based music. This marked a new direction for her work in the '90s, including three albums released under Real World Records. These albums fused Arab, Andalucian, Celtic, Indian vocal styles with even older traditions like Gregorian plainsong. Additionally, Chandra performed live for two years during this period.
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This pioneering Asian singer&nbsp;explores the territories of&nbsp;her spiritual ancestors. An intensely beautiful album&nbsp;celebrating the first and&nbsp;ultimate instrument – the voice. These re-issues provide a chance for listeners to (re)discover the work of Shelia Chandra, one of the most original and trailblazing artists of her generation.  Sheila Chandra’s 1992 debut album for Real World,&nbsp;Weaving My Ancestors’&nbsp;Voices&nbsp;begins a trilogy that&nbsp;cements her as one of the&nbsp;most accomplished musicians&nbsp;of her generation.&nbsp;Chandra finds the common ground between vocal traditions, to embody&nbsp;the timelessness of the human voice.&nbsp;With this one ubiquitous instrument,&nbsp;she&nbsp;proves to us both the universality of its capacity to express human emotion and&nbsp;the uniqueness of her personal vision.&nbsp;Her self-expression&nbsp;has the capacity to move&nbsp;listeners as&nbsp;much now, and long into the future, just as radically as it did&nbsp;upon its first release. Includes a reinterpretation of Chandra’s first hit and the&nbsp;seed of her boundary-breaking&nbsp;career, 'Ever So Lonely.' All formats have updated artwork, including new sleeve notes.

Weaving My Ancestors' Voices

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