Navarasa Nine Emotions

Description

Yorkston / Thorne / Khan James Yorkston (guitar/nyckelharpa/vocals), Jon Thorne (double-bass/vocals) and Suhail Yusuf Khan (sarangi/vocals) release their third album, Navarasa: Nine Emotions.

At the heart of YTKs transporting new album is the subcontinents navarasa; the nine (nava) emotions or sentiments (rasa) of the arts and each song on Yorkston / Thorne / Khans new album is connected to one of these emotions.

A bricolage of diverse cross-cultural elements is apparent across the trios creations. James Yorkston weaves in Scottish folk, sangster and literary strands. Jon Thorne is grounded in jazz and groove. What the New Delhi-based, eighth-generation hereditary musician Suhail Yusuf Khan brings to this feast of pulses and cycles is northern Indian classical, light classical (thumri, for example) and Sufi devotional musical and literary forms. What binds these diverse musical strands together is, in James phrase, a dark happiness.

Double LP with 4-page booklet and digital download card.

Also available to independent retailers on dark green coloured double vinyl with 4-page booklet and digital download card.