Incorporating elements of spiritual jazz and classical Indian instrumentation, New York-born and Tamil Nadu-raised artist ganavya reveals a meditative music video for her latest track Pasayadan – directed by Vali Chandrasekaran. Taken from new album Nilam, released on LEITER, the singer and transdisciplinary artist initiates a deep contemplation, set against nature, communicated through poignant vocals and expressive movement by dancer David Adrian Freeland Jr.  

“The Pasayadan”, ganavya explains, “is an abhang from the pilgrimage tradition. It is one of the last prayers we’d sing, where the young saint prays for the sun to rise in all cold hearts, for the wisdom to see each other as wish-fulfilling trees, that we are each other’s sanctuaries, that we remember that we are each other’s true temples. You treat cruelty like a disease. It introduces such softness to life. For me, given my particular life, it is a softness that saves me.”