Every name is first and foremost a shelter. There is always a deep, personal hook in the names by which we are called into life. Something intangible that responds in one way or another to the unexpressed need to be seen, accepted, and protected. Destiny and destination together, a journey that becomes a landing. In Sanskrit, Shandi means “end,” but also “fine-tuning.” A closed circle, perfect in its completeness. Shandi leverages an astonishing sound spectrum of twenty notes, 13 above and 7 below, including 5 Ding. The extreme flexibility of the D minor “kurd” scale, recognizable and welcoming from the first contact with the instrument, is capable of unfolding a very wide range of sonic gradations: each one is a notch on the wall at the height of our desires, fully opening the door to the secrets that we are.