Ganavya has released new single, “Draw Something Beautiful”. The track was co-produced by Frahm at his Berlin Funkhaus studio. The New York-born, India has worked with Quincy Jones (who wrote her Harvard recommendation letter), opera/theatre director Peter Sellars, esperanza spalding, Shabaka Hutchings, Floating Points, and was seen last December crowds at SAULT’S debut in London. The track is available via Nils Frahm’s Leiter label. Ganavya has upcoming shows in Los Angeles, Chicago, NYC, Paris, Berlin, London and more.

“Draw Something Beautiful” isn’t a new song. Instead, the template for these strikingly tranquil four minutes, in which her voice floats delicately amid Frahm’s intuitively minimalist, spacious arrangement, was one of the first Ganavya ever composed. “I wrote it as a child to say, ‘If I die, could you take the life force in me and redistribute it among the remaining humans to make them happier?’ I genuinely believed this was possible because of the stories and mythology I grew up with.” The track represents the first music Frahm and Ganavya ever recorded together, and her vocals were captured so quickly that she, Frahm, and Felix Grimm – Frahm’s long-time manager and Leiter label co-founder – decided to keep going. Ganavya recalls being unsure what to sing next, but Frahm “set up his glass harmonica, using a kalimba to apply sustained pressure to one singular note,” creating a foundational drone for her unforgettable melody in ‘Ami Pana So’dras.’ “It’s an old Kashmiri song I hum to myself all the time when alone,” says Ganavya. “Nils has a matter-of-factness to his presence that feels like the opposite of… excessiveness. It was easy to just be.”

“Draw Something Beautiful” is the follow-up to Ganavya’s album like the sky i’ve been too quiet, produced by Shabaka Hutchings, and released earlier this year on his label Native Rebel. Featuring contributions from Floating Points, Tom Herbert, Carlos Niño, Leafcutter John, and others, the album was hailed by The Quietus as “haunting, otherworldly…balancing darkness and light, weaving together intimate stories with thread of cosmic spirituality.”

GANAVYA 2024 Tour Dates

July 21 – New York, NY – Joe’s Pub
September 22 – San Francisco, CA – Gray Area
September 26 – Seattle, WA – Fremont Abbey
September 29 – Chicago, IL, – Old Town School of Folk Music (Szold Hall)
October 3 – Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust
October 4 – Philadelphia, PA – Solar Myth
October 9 – Los Angeles, CA – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
October 12 – Cardiff, UK – Llais Festival
November 6 – Zurich, CH – Johanneskirche
November 8 – Utrecht, – NL – Le Guess Who? Festival
November 9 – Groningen, NL – Rockit Festival
November 10 – Paris, FR – Café de la Danse
November 14 – Leuven, BE – 30CC
November 15 – Brussels, BE – Fifty Lab Music Festival at AB Club
November 17 – Berlin, DE – Silent Green – Kuppelhalle
November 22 – Dublin, IE – Dublin Unitarian Church
November 23 – London, UK – EFG London Jazz Festival – Union Chapel