Every day for around three months, Evergrey singer Tom S Englund and prolific pianist Vikram Shankar would meet virtually over Zoom to see what musical ideas might blossom between them. The result was their second album Nectar, and despite its digital roots, the rich record brims with emotive soul that manages to be intimate yet absolutely grand.
“It was beautiful, because if I wanted to take a chance on something I could just walk over to my Moog synth or something and just try it,” Shankar recalls. “It was a very free-flowing process where we were throwing a lot of stuff at the wall to see what stuck.”
