Release Date: 21 February 2020
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Special
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 093074058824
Genres: World Music India & Pakistan
Release Date: 27 March 2020
Label: Smithsonian Folkways Special
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 093074058817
Genres: World Music India & Pakistan
Description
Sunny Jain's 'Wild Wild East' encompasses myriad facets of Jain's identity both as a first-generation South Asian–American and as a global musician, from his own family's immigration story to his eclectic musical upbringing. In recasting the immigrant - steeped in the courage to leave a familiar homeland for a new beginning - as the modern-day cowboy and cowgirl, Jain sources musical inspiration from the scores of Bollywood classics and Spaghetti Westerns, Indian folk traditions, jazz improvisation, and rollicking psychedelic and surf guitar styles. 'Wild Wild East' is an album rooted in the contemporary American soundscape, singing in a new voice, "I am large, I contain multitudes."
Description
Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East encompasses myriad facets of Jain's identity both as a first-generation South Asian–American and as a global musician, from his own family's immigration story to his eclectic musical upbringing. In recasting the immigrant—steeped in the courage to leave a familiar homeland for a new beginning—as the modern-day cowboy and cowgirl, Jain sources musical inspiration from the scores of Bollywood classics and Spaghetti Westerns, Indian folk traditions, jazz improvisation, and rollicking psychedelic and surf guitar styles.
Wild Wild East is an album rooted in the contemporary American soundscape, singing in a new voice, "I am large, I contain multitudes."
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Joseph Spence
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams
Elizabeth Cotten
Various Artists: Mike Seeger
Lead Belly
Dom Flemons
Sunny Jain
Various Artists
Gao Hong & Baluji Shrivastav
Virginia Nicoli
Debashish Bhattacharya
Ekta Rana
Ananda Shankar
Jaubi
Jyotsna Srikanth
