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There's a gap between what we can feel and what we can name; between sensing something and being able to articulate it to the world or even to ourselves.   Seen Heard Held releases 16th Oct 2026 on Warner Chappel Music. Pre-save the album Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

Official announcement of my upcoming 8th album 'Seen Heard Held' with thoughts on the why, how and what of it all.    Seen Heard Held releases 16th Oct 2026 on Warner Chappel Music.   Pre-save the album   Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

Sheila Chandra returns to Tapasya Loading for her third appearance to discuss Echo, a collection of live recordings she describes as possibly her final album. Her first album as producer reunites her with Stuart Bruce, a collaboration dating back to Sheila’s Monsoon sessions in 1982 and continued through her Real World trilogy. For Echo, they worked as a team of two, communicating entirely via email. In this episode: Producing Echo and the dynamics of a two-person collaboration. Production techniques and the often overlooked art of vocal production. Revisiting past performances and choosing feeling over technical perfection. Accessibility for artists, being mentored and becoming a mentor. Sheila’s artistic journey and her perspective on what may be her last release.   Echo is released on 25 September 2026 through Real World Records on LP and digital, with six additional tracks on the digital edition.   Explore Echo and find listening and purchase options.   Previous conversations with Sheila: Voices Lost and Found Revisiting the Birth of ‘World Music’ and Unpacking its Relevance in 2023   Listen to the second half of the episode.   Free Artist Training Coaching + courses Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com Connect with Sheila: Website: https://www.sheilachandra.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sheila_chandra Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesheilachandra Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sheila.chandra.1 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sheilachandra0000 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilachandraartistcoach/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sheila-Chandra/e/B0034Q533Q Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Chandra IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1291550/bio/ Connect with T.L. www.tlmazumdar.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everynowheremusic/

With roughly a month to go before my eighth album comes out, I’m revisiting the work I’ve dedicated the past decade to, and what I was searching for through it. This is a look back at that search, and how my upcoming album, Seen Heard Held, aims to be the counterbalance to what Re_movement was.  The IG Carousel with photos. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

Three weeks after a racial attack in Berlin, I move from shock and helplessness into anger, and sit with the discomfort of agreeing with what someone is fighting for without knowing if I could fight the same way. A solocast about racism, belonging, contradictory truths and what humanity means when even that word can be hijacked. -- More Relevant Links: My talks with Equity Coach Tayo Rockson My Talks with Sheila Chandra My article on Racism in Germany --- Free Artist Training Coaching + courses Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com

The coaching industry has fractured into two distinct worlds: one grounded in genuine education and responsibility, another built on engineered dissatisfaction and circular profit models. Between them lies a dangerous gap where the language of transformation masks the machinery of extraction, and where the promise of accessibility obscures deliberately incomplete offerings. Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com Episode Notes / Text : www.tlwrites.com

Five years after her first appearance on Tapasya Loading, New York-based Dutch vocalist, composer, producer, educator and psychologist Vivienne Aerts returns as our first-ever guest to make a second reappearance. Her new album, Current, was created aboard a tiny wooden sailboat that Vivienne and her husband, Ted Steinebach, first bought during the pandemic. What began with a fascination for the acoustics of open water eventually became a floating studio, travelling from Leiden towards Amsterdam and back through the Dutch waterways. Vivienne chose not to release the album on mainstream platforms, refusing to place a project built around attention, connection and care inside a system she feels is increasingly removed from those values.   Listen to the second half of the episode.   Connect with Vivienne Vivienne’s website Explore the world of Current Listen to and support Current on Bandcamp Why Current Will Not Be on Spotify ViviTalks on Substack Instagram Vivienne at Berklee College of Music Vivienne’s previous appearances Well-being for Artists and Making Music with Chocolate Making an Album with 100 Plus Female Collaborators, Chocolate that Empowers Local Congo Businesses and Effortless Mastery in Juggling Multiple Hats Connect with T.L. Tapasya Loading Holistic Musician Academy EveryNowHere Produced by T.L. Mazumdar.

What happens when you stop trying to force incompatible parts of yourself into a single coherent identity, and recognize that the relationship between those parts is the identity itself instead?  Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

In an era when machines generate the appearance of creativity, understanding the difference is not sentimental.   Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

The boundary between coaching and therapy has become impossibly blurred, particularly for independent artists navigating both creative ambition and psychological weight. Most distinctions you've heard collapse under scrutiny, revealing instead that what actually matters is scope, competence, purpose, and the specific geography in which support is being offered.  Here's my revised take in 2026 Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

Why a Growth Mindset less about trying harder and more about loosening your grip on who you think you are.   Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses   Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com

How the relentless pursuit of "likes" ended up reshaping art.    Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

Self-loathing is a harsh word to acknowledge, but what it points to is real. And what it shows up as in our daily decisions are the buildings blocks of the pattern that threatens to pull us away from our own creative centre.    Brought to you by: https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/ https://safeandsound.studio/   Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses

I was a toddler when two women at a doorstep decided what I was worth. It took me decades to hear the lesson inside that deal. This one is about value decided, not discovered. About us waiting for circumstances to hand down a verdict that was never theirs to give. And about the harder half: receiving. Who taught you what you were worth? And have you been living by their estimate ever since?   Brought to you by: https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/ https://safeandsound.studio/   Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses   Music and Audio Production: www.everynowheremusic.com Episode Notes / Text : www.tlwrites.com

Why a manager, team, assistant, audience or patron might be useless to us until we understand this first.    Brought to you by: https://holisticmusicianacademy.com/ https://safeandsound.studio/    Read the article. Free Artist Training Coaching + courses