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The culture around creativity increasingly trains everyone on everyone else's output, compressing references and narrowing the ground from which genuine distinction can emerge. The question, then, is not how to sound different for its own sake, but whether we're willing to let the contradictions and cross-pollinations of our actual lives shape what we create.

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There's a gap between what we can feel and what we can name; between sensing something and being able to articulate it to the world or even to ourselves.

 

Seen Heard Held releases 16th Oct 2026 on Warner Chappel Music.

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Official announcement of my upcoming 8th album 'Seen Heard Held' with thoughts on the why, how and what of it all. 

 

Seen Heard Held releases 16th Oct 2026 on Warner Chappel Music.

 

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Sheila Chandra returns to Tapasya Loading for her third appearance to discuss Echo, a collection of live recordings she describes as possibly her final album.

Her first album as producer reunites her with Stuart Bruce, a collaboration dating back to Sheila’s Monsoon sessions in 1982 and continued through her Real World trilogy. For Echo, they worked as a team of two, communicating entirely via email.

In this episode:

Producing Echo and the dynamics of a two-person collaboration.

Production techniques and the often overlooked art of vocal production.

Revisiting past performances and choosing feeling over technical perfection.

Accessibility for artists, being mentored and becoming a mentor.

Sheila’s artistic journey and her perspective on what may be her last release.

 

Echo is released on 25 September 2026 through Real World Records on LP and digital, with six additional tracks on the digital edition.

 

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Previous conversations with Sheila:

Voices Lost and Found

Revisiting the Birth of ‘World Music’ and Unpacking its Relevance in 2023

 

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With roughly a month to go before my eighth album comes out, I’m revisiting the work I’ve dedicated the past decade to, and what I was searching for through it.

This is a look back at that search, and how my upcoming album, Seen Heard Held, aims to be the counterbalance to what Re_movement was. 

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