How did your family first meet Joe Walsh? And how did this collaboration for Prayers come about?
I met maestro Joe Walsh for the first time in 2017, in Mumbai when he wanted to own a sarod. We met, and it turned into an impromptu jam session that went on for hours. His humility was unreal. You just learn from legends, ‘how it’s done.’ Following that meeting, we were very keen to do something together. So, during our tours in the US, we recorded at Joe’s beautiful studio in Los Angeles over two sessions in 2019; we had finished our sessions just before the lockdown. Prayers is my father’s and our first collaboration with the rock-and-roll world. It’s truly been an honour to collaborate with Joe Walsh. This project is a spiritually infused three-song EP which is an offering for the widespread human suffering.

Ayaan Ali Bangash