Traces of You is the seventh studio album by British-American sitarist Anoushka Shankar. It was released on 4 October 2013 through Deutsche Grammophon.^[1] The album, which is Shankar's first release since her 2011 Grammy-nominated album Traveller, was produced by British composer and multi-instrumentalist Nitin Sawhney.^[2] Traces of You features vocals by Norah Jones, Shankar's half-sister, on three tracks. In December 2014, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best World Music Album category.^[3]

The lead single to promote the album, "Traces of You", was released internationally on 22 July 2013.^[4] "People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go," said Shankar about the song.^[2]

A music video for the track, which featured Norah Jones, was released onto YouTube on 12 September 2013.^[5] It was directed by Shankar's husband, English film director Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Anna Karenina).^[2]

Credits from Deutsche Grammophon website^[1] and the album liner notes:

• Anoushka Shankar – sitar on all; vocals on 7
• Norah Jones – vocals on 1, 10, and 13
• Nitin Sawhney – guitar on 1, 10, and 11; programming on 2, 3, 4, 7, 9. 10, and 11; string arrangement on 2 and 13, piano on 3 and 6; bass guitar on 7 and 10; percussion on 10; ukulele on 10
• Pirashanna Thevarajah – ghatam on 1, 8, 11, and 12; mridangam on 5, 8, and 12; moorsing on 5 and 11; vocals on 5; shaker percussion on 11; kanjira on 12
• Manu Delago – hang on 2, 4, and 5; glockenspiel on 10
• Ian Burdge – cello on 2, 4, 11, and 13
• Bernhard Schimpelsberger – udu on 5
• Kenji Ota – tanpura on 5, 7, 8, 9, and 12
• Anil Narasimha, Sandhya Chandrachood – vocals on 7
• Sanjeev Shankar – shehnai on 7 and 12
• Tanmoy Bose – tabla on 7, 10, and 12
• Aref Durvesh – tabla on 11
• Ravichandra Kulur – bansuri on 12