the intense contrast between being able to provide for her newly born second child and the sense of powerlessness to alleviate the injustice and pain happening as the world looked on provided the inspiration for this heartfelt and hopeful album. The release features different types of contributions – from the vocal of MIA and Alev Lenz, to the monologue of Remain the Sea by Veteran British actress Vanessa Redgrave. There is also a strong cinematic influence in the videos, lent by the production of film Director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement). Land of Gold remixes came out in the same year with remixes by Mowgli, Karsh Kale, Matt Robertson, Grain and East London-based collective Shiva Soundsystem. In 2019 came the compilation Reflections, a 20-year retrospective album that revisits the best of Shankar's cross cultural back catalogue with Deutsche Grammophon, including many of her previous collaborations with fellow artists and producers. The release of Love Letters in 2020 marked a different direction for Shankar. The co-produced EP is a compilation of songs written across 2018-19 and released on her new record label, Mercury KX. Several guest musicians feature on the EP, including singer and co-producer Alev Lenz, twin sister vocal duo Ibeyi, singer and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Indian singer Shilpa Rao, Brooklyn-based mastering engineer Heba Kadry (Björk, Slowdive) and British audio mastering engineer Mandy Parnell (Aphex Twin, The XX). Shankar regularly collaborates with electronic music producer Gold Panda, percussionist Manu Delago and the Britten Sinfonia strings, all of which appeared, including Shankar, at the 2020 BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall. Throughout her career, Shankar has made many guest appearances on recordings by other artists, among them Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Thievery Corporation and Nitin Sawhney. In 2010 she collaborated with Jazz legend Herbie Hancock, on his album The Imagine Project, alongside Pink, India.Arie, Jeff Beck, John Legend, Chaka Khan, The Chieftains, Wayne Shorter and Dave Matthews. The project was also filmed for a documentary accompanying the release and showing him working with the artists who collaborated on the project. In the same year she featured on the track "Rebirth by Indian" fusion group MIDIval Punditz. In 2012 the album Area 52 by Rodrigo & Gabriela's album featured a guest appearance from Shankar's sitar improvisation. She performed the Raga Piloo with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja during a concert in Konzerthaus Berlin, Germany in April 2016 - the song was originally composed, performed