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Love Letters from Brooklyn (Gender Amplified)
Add date: 3.24.2026
Release date: 3.20.2026
About Love Letters From Brooklyn:
Following a decade-long trajectory of activist-driven, percussive electronic music, Madame Gandhi’s latest project focuses on queer love, intimacy, and collaboration with women producers and songwriters from Gender Amplified.
Love Letters From Brooklyn features five tracks that blend R&B and organic pop with visceral vocal performances. The album was developed a year ago through a women-led 3-day songwriting camp with equitable splits, emphasizing collaboration, artistic equity, and empowerment at Hyperballad Music in Brooklyn. Each track reflects Madame Gandhi's commitment to authentic storytelling, balancing percussive energy with intimate lyrical content.
The album is dedicated to Gandhi’s four-year-long-distance partner, gold-medalist boxer Lesley Sackey, and explores the complexities of distant and queer relationships. Themes of love, connection, and partnership run throughout the work, with melodies and arrangements designed to evoke emotional resonance and celebration. The music combines live instrumentation with electronic production, creating an organic yet contemporary sound. Sackey, as well as Gandhi’s mother, New York humanitarian Meera Gandhi, will both be in attendance at the launch party at National Sawdust in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Madame Gandhi collaborated closely with producers and songwriters affiliated with Gender Amplified, ensuring every track reflected both her vision and the creative contributions of her collaborators. The album marks her second all-female writing camp and builds on nearly a decade of projects that fuse activism, community, and music-making, the first of which was with We Make Noise. The album’s percussive and vocal textures intentionally contrast with heavily produced contemporary pop, creating a fresh, raw listening experience.
Love Letters From Brooklyn also reflects Madame Gandhi's exploration of sonic experimentation and genre blending. While rooted in electronic music, the album draws on R&B, pop, and organic instrumentation, creating a versatile soundscape that highlights both rhythm and melody. The album’s intimate focus makes it a standout in Madame Gandhi’s discography, offering listeners a direct and emotional connection to the artist’s personal and creative journey.
About Madame Gandhi:
Kiran Gandhi, performing as Madame Gandhi, is an award-winning electronic artist and activist known for percussive, uplifting music and messages of personal empowerment. She began producing in 2015 following her viral London Marathon free-bleeding story and was the former drummer for GRAMMY-nominated artist M.I.A. Gandhi is a TED Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Music, and BBC 100 Women honoree.
Her work includes collaborations with NATURE to redirect streaming royalties to planetary conservation. She has received the Songwriters Hall of Fame Abe Olman Prize, the 2026 Alicia Keys “She is the Music” Vanguard Honor, and a 2026 Billboard Culture Shifter FEMMY Nomination. Past releases include Let Me Be Water (2025), Vibrations (2022), Visions (2019), and Voices (2016).