There’s a moment on Manizeh Rimer‘s debut album where three generations of women’s voices intertwine singing a 3,000-year-old Zoroastrian prayer—possibly for the first time in recorded history. It’s a fitting opening for ‘Mahku‘, an album whose very title means “eclipse”: that celestial moment when sun and moon, past and future, difference and unity, all converge into one.

The album is out today on LEITER, born from an unlikely pandemic practice. When lockdown hit, Rimer—founder of London’s Love Supreme Projects and the first person to bring Jivamukti Yoga to the UK—began hosting online Sunday morning chanting sessions.

“Chanting was a direct hit,” she explains. “It shuts the mind down and opens the heart very quickly.”

Recorded at LEITER’s Funkhaus Studio in Berlin with co-producer and labelmate ganavya (fresh off her stunning ‘Daughter of a Temple’ and ‘Nilam’ albums), ‘Mahku’ gathers eight sacred chants spanning Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Tibetan, and Sanskrit traditions. Among them: a wonderful reimagining of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Landslide’, sung by Rimer’s teenage daughter, Mahku—who shares her name with her great-grandmother, the album’s namesake.

With Mahku now out in the world, you can bask in all its glory above. Not only is the album out today, but we are also blessed to share a guest playlist from Manizeh.

We’re excited that Maizeh curated this beautiful selection, featuring amazing songs from Laraaji, Alice Coltrane, Pharaoh Sanders, ganavya, Radiohead and more.

Just like the album, let her guest playlist light up your day!