The crowdfunding campaign for my debut album, Chardi Kala, was successfully funded! Eternal gratitude to the 237 of you who contributed. Eternal gratitude to those who encouraged me to do this, who shared this with their people, and have supported countless ways. Because of you, we raised $15,594, exceeding my initial goal. I cannot tell you how much this means to me and how helpful this will be to enable me to do justice to this music and message.
I also want to take this moment to shout out the incredible musicians who are playing on the album. They have been super generous with their time and talents, and I'm so lucky to have them as a part of this. Check them out! Mario Calire on drums, Dave Sharma on percussion and drums, Neelamjit Dhillon on tabla and saxophone, Justin Porée on percussion, Jonathan Goldberger on guitar, Nadav Peled on guitar, Carey Frank on keys, Bhai Anantvir Singh LA on harmonium, Ganavya Doraiswamy, Ashni Davé, and Basim Usmani, and Roopa Mahadevan on vocals, Ali Mir and Sham E-Ali Nayeem on poetry vocals, Miwi La Lupa on bass trumpet, Daro Behroozi on saxophone and bass clarinet, Ernest Stuart on trombone, Estevan Sanchez on sousaphone, Warren Huang on saxophone and flute, Dominic Johnson on violin, Jake Leckie Music on acoustic bass, Michael Dwan Singh on sarangi, and of course Wil-Dog Abers on bass, engineering, and producing. In this case, it takes a literal village to make an album-- including the 237 of you who are helping make this happen!