She’s already gathered a considerable constellation of star-name boosters, with the likes of Quincy Jones, Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding all pledged as admirers of ganavya’s otherworldly east-meets-west amalgams. Today, the young vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer releases ‘forgive me my’ via Shabaka Hutchings’ Native Rebel Recordings. The track, reminiscent of Alice Coltrane’s most serene spiritual eulogies, is a reflective musing on mortality, featuring Alina Bzhezhinska’s dulcet harp paired in contemplative dialogue with ganavya’s plaintive invocations.

About the inspiration for her song, ganavya says: “‘forgive me my’ was born when I took to social media to explain the spiritual and pilgrimage tradition I came from, where pilgrims would make songs of poetry to get through walking long days. I offered to make songs of any poems or lines that people loved, and started singing to many people who wrote to me. During this time, I composed the song from Nigerian author Teju Cole’s words: ‘forgive me my forgetfulness, no one can forget gentleness.’ Cole’s text was a reflection on death, on someone he had lost. I sang this to many people, a reflection of what remains in the aftermath of human loss. It was the beginning of me singing in English, born from the promise that I would sing to anyone who asked me to, in a language they understood.”