Linda Shanson
An exploration of the imagination — in music, word and colour.
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An exploration of the imagination — in music, word and colour.
Linda Shanson — also known as Linda Shanovitch — is a singer, songwriter, author and painter. An anthropologist by training, she has lived and worked in Mexico, India and Paris, and those journeys run through everything she makes.
She is the voice of Jazz Orient / Re-Orient, the author of the children's classic Journey With The Gods and the award-winning story Frankenstein in India, and a painter whose vivid, dreamlike work gives this site its colour.
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“Bjork on helium.”London Evening Standard
Vocalist of Jazz Orient / Re-Orient across seven albums on ARC Music — most recently the improvised Once Upon a Night.
Listen →Journey With The Gods, the poetic Raaja Ajaar, and the award-winning Frankenstein in India.
Read →Expressive watercolour and crayon works, painted wherever she has lived — from Mexico City to London.
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Ten years apart, then one chance evening in Leicester with their instruments — Jazz Orient sat down and improvised five tracks. No plan. They just played. The magic was still there.
Chris Conway · Baluji Shrivastav · Linda Shanovitch — released March 2024.
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Painting is another way
of singing.Linda Shanson
Her voice in particular is striking and expressive throughout.Jazzwise Magazine
Music to engage the mind, heart, and soul.Jazzwise Magazine
Shanovitch's light, flexible voice floats over it all with cool insouciance.Dirty Linen, USA
Gorgeous melodies throughout. Lovely stuff.LA Daily News
