Manizeh Rimer, founder of London’s Love Supreme Projects, unveils her debut album on LEITER. A striking statement of contemporary spiritual jazz, ‘Mahku’ was co-produced by her labelmate ganavya – who recently released the celebrated ‘Daughter of a Temple’ and ‘Nilam’ – alongside LEITER co-founder Felix Grimm. Recorded in the first half of 2025 at LEITER’s Funkhaus Studio in Berlin, the album features eight chants, including a reinterpretation of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Landslide‘, with ganavya guesting on three tracks. ‘Mahku’ will be available on vinyl and all digital platforms from December 5, 2025.

‘Mahku’ was born of a friendship established after Manizeh – whose Parsi family emigrated from South Asia to Europe during her childhood – reached out to ganavya in the early days of Love Supreme Projects, which opened in 2022 in London as a place for students of ancient practices to gather and belong. She moved to London with her husband in 2002, where she was the first person to bring Jivamukti Yoga to the UK.

Manizeh’s practice of chanting far predates the popularity it enjoys today. During the earliest days of lockdown, Manizeh started holding Sunday morning online sessions that a remarkable number of people joined. “Sitting and meditating is really difficult,” she explains. “Moving your body is an important piece of it. But chanting was a direct hit. It shuts the mind down and opens the heart very quickly. The reason people drink and take drugs is that they’re looking for a shortcut to that experience. For me, chanting was that shortcut.”

Although ‘Mahku’ encapsulates the transcendent magic of this simple but life-altering practice, it’s far more than a spiritual aid. It features a stellar cast of musicians gathered by ganavya, who, Manizeh says, “brings a village together like nobody else.” Present are Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist Jai Uttal; double bassists Ben Hazleton and Doug Weiss; harpist Miriam Adefris; pianist Jay Verma; and Manizeh’s teenage daughter, Mahku Rimer on voice and guitar.

‘Mahku’ means ‘eclipse’. “It’s like the sun and moon coming together, right and left coming together, differences coming together, and then you just see the one.” It is also the name of her grandmother, whom she describes as “an embodiment of unconditional love.“ “Chanting connects humans through space and time. If we think about how we are still singing chants that have been sung for thousands of years, we are part of a loop that is constantly going.”

The album opens with a 3,000-year-old Zoroastrian prayer ‘Ashem Vohu’, learned as a child from her grandmother and sung in Avestan by Manizeh, Mahku, and ganavya. “This might be the first time women are singing it, let alone recording it this way,” Manizeh reflects quietly. The album concludes with ‘Landslide Sri Ma’, led by her daughter. “The album connects space and time and generations.”

Other tracks include the Tibetan ‘Bhaisajyaguru’ (to which LEITER’s own co-founder Grimm lends his voice), the radiant ‘Narayana’ (with Jay Verma improvising), the Buddhist mantra ‘Gate Gate Paragate’ and Sanskrit prayer ‘Asato Ma’ (both featuring ganavya), and ‘Tvam Eva’ with Jai Uttal. ‘Avan’s Sita Ram’, dedicated to Manizeh’s mother Avabai, once travelled across space and oceans as she sang the song daily from San Francisco to her dying mother in Geneva. Now, Mahku Rimer carries the song to its delicate ending.

“Both ganavya and Felix said to me, ‘You need to record.’ I said, ‘I have no idea how to do that.’ She said, ‘Well, we can do it together.’” Any doubts Manizeh had were worked through with care at LEITER’s Berlin studio. “It’s like Narnia,” she laughs. “You go through this one wooden door, and you’re in a completely different world. It suspends you in an infinite river of time.”

This river of timelessness flows in ‘Mahku,’ making it a collaboration for the ages. If, Love Supreme Project’s north star is, as Manizeh regularly is known to reiterate, to help people “crack your heart open”, then she’s just provided its ideal musical equivalent. It is a sophisticated debut album, but perhaps this was only to be expected. Before we began,” Manizeh recalls, “I asked ganavya if perhaps we couldn’t have had some stepping stones on the way?” She replied, “No, you’re ready.” It would seem that she was right.

The album is out on December 5, the limited edition vinyl is available now to pre-order.