Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East (performing Sialkot)

#sunnyjain #smithsonian Live at Symphony Space, NYC () Ben Parag - vocals Lynn Ligammari - tenor saxophone Shubh Saran - guitar Almog Sharvit - bass Sunny Jain - drumset, composer Sunny Jain is a composer, drummer and dhol player. On February 2020, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings released his debut album for the label entitled, “Wild Wild East.” Pitchfork raved “many of these composition are intellectually thrilling to unravel.” Songlines magazine (UK) named it the top 10 world fusion albums of 2020 and raved that Jain is “one of the leading figures in North America’s burgeoning Asian music scene. A global musical alchemist and cultural agent provocateur.” Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East (Smithsonian Folkways 2020) 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 le