This Song's Story

Anni left us a treasure trove in her diaries. Around August 2007, we started going through them, scanning her drawings and doodles, reading soul-stirring poems, and we stumbled across this!

Anni had written I See Now quite some time ago, circa 2004 or 2005. Aunty Kamala and Link both remember her sitting with her violin, sounding out a tune, and writing down the swara notation (Indian notes akin to the western solfege system) to some song in her diary. This was that song.

While at Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, researching for the Earth Ethics book, Nirali sat and studied the notation, thereby re-constructing the song.

During the recording sessions in 2009 in Amritapuri, Kartik had a basic track ready to record on, but we didn't have anyone to record! While hanging out the laundry one morning, Aunty Kamala heard a little girl scolding her brother, and knew it was exactly the voice we needed.

Little Anupama lives in the Persian Gulf with her family. A star singer (whether she knows it or not) she was visiting Amritapuri for just a few days. (An amazing co-incidence is that Anni's name is also Anupama.) Though she had never heard the song before, she sang it beautifully in the studio, for hours. The final song is awesome.

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Please Note: This is only a preview of the song.Check the links below for lyrics and more!